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A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields. sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New article! 'Advancing historical geography through the Chinese Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)', by Tao Sun, Peter K. Bol and Xiaohong Zhang. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Advancing historical geography through the Chinese Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Conference report! Jiaxiang Liu and Xin Yang on the 18th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Shanghai, July, 2025.
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Conference report | The 18th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Shanghai, July, 2025
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New article! 'The man who made planets: Kenneth S. Fagg and Geo-Physical Maps, Inc.', by Veronica della Dora. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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The man who made planets: Kenneth S. Fagg and Geo-Physical Maps, Inc.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New article! 'Layers of segregation: Building-level evidence from early-nineteenth century Ghent', by Martijn Collijs. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Layers of segregation: Building-level evidence from early-nineteenth century Ghent
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New book review! Jed DeBruin on 'Historical Geographies: The Basics', edited by Paul Griffin and Cheryl McGeachan.
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Review | Historical Geographies: The Basics
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New book review! Arianna Tozzi on Ashok Malhotra's 'Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969'.
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Review | Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New article! 'Sprouting pasts: Migration, cultivation, and landscape making in Amsterdam Nieuw-West', by Antonia Weiss. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Sprouting pasts: Migration, cultivation, and landscape making in Amsterdam Nieuw-West
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New article! 'Reading place and race through J.B. Harley and Stuart Hall: Memory and ideology in the United States Civil War maps of a nineteenth-century student', by Jacob C. Barton. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Reading place and race through J.B. Harley and Stuart Hall: Memory and ideology in the United States Civil War maps of a nineteenth-century student
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New article! 'Losing Río Viejo: Fluvial landscape change and hydro-territorial reconfiguration in the Magdalena Delta, Colombian Caribbean', by José Eduardo Fuentes Delgado. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Losing Río Viejo: Fluvial landscape change and hydro-territorial reconfiguration in the Magdalena Delta, Colombian Caribbean
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New article! 'A new methodology for the construction of historical population grids: Spain in the late nineteenth century', by Alfonso Diez-Minguela, Francisco J. Goerlich, Rafael González Val and Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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A new methodology for the construction of historical population grids: Spain in the late nineteenth century
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Attending the #rgsibg26 conference? The Journal of Historical Geography-sponsored lecture by @carolinebressey.bsky.social is taking place on Thursday 3 September in the Ondaatje Theatre, 9am-10.40am. Join us! Details here: event.ac2026.exordo.com/presentation... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @rgs.org
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New article! 'Fluid alliances: Human, technical, and exotic aquatic actors in the making of the aquarium in Germany from 1870 to 1914', by Edward Ofori-Annor and Boris Braun. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Fluid alliances: Human, technical, and exotic aquatic actors in the making of the aquarium in Germany from 1870 to 1914
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New book review! Matías González-Marilicán on 'Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation', by Charles Watkins.
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Review | Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New article! 'Mapping solidarity: The Colorado labor wars, centroid-based geocoding, and solidarity clusters', by Drew Heiderscheidt. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Mapping solidarity: The Colorado labor wars, centroid-based geocoding, and solidarity clusters
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New article! 'Edges and nodes of print geographies: A spatial-network view of Punjabi publishing infrastructure', by Anima Singh and Nirmala Menon.
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Edges and nodes of print geographies: A spatial-network view of Punjabi publishing infrastructure
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New article! 'Spatialising separation: The Albatross File and the historical geography of Singapore's independence', by Lily Kong.
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Spatialising separation: The Albatross File and the historical geography of Singapore's independence
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New book review! Philip Howell on Karen M. Morin's 'Cattle Trails and Animal Lives: The Founding of an American Carceral Archipelago'.
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Review | Cattle Trails and Animal Lives: The Founding of an American Carceral Archipelago
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New article! 'Transformational geographies of academic advocacy: How the first ombuds in the University of California shaped an empowering university in Berkeley, 1968–1970', by Heike Jöns, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Gritt B. Nielsen.
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Transformational geographies of academic advocacy: How the first ombuds in the University of California shaped an empowering university in Berkeley, 1968–1970
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New article! 'Remembering Social Democracy: Monumentalization, political infrastructures, and stories of "the people",' by Erik Jönsson.
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Remembering Social Democracy: Monumentalization, political infrastructures, and stories of 'the people'
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New book review! Ricardo Padrón on 'Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue', edited by Mackenzie Cooley and Huiyi Wu.
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Review | Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New article! 'Ghost elephants and the archive: Towards nonhuman histories beyond linear time', by Khatijah Rahmat.
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Ghost elephants and the archive: Towards nonhuman histories beyond linear time
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New article: 'From hydraulic Utopia to rural retreat: Saucelle's hydroelectric settlement and the transformation of territory under Franco's regime', by Marina Bargón-García and Pedro Plasencia-Lozano. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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From hydraulic Utopia to rural retreat: Saucelle's hydroelectric settlement and the transformation of territory under Franco's regime
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New article! ‘"Middle politics" and Brazil’s new capital: Hinterland occupation and Brasília’s location as moderate spatial solutions to agrarian reform demands', by Larissa Alves de Lira.
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‘Middle politics’ and Brazil’s new capital: Hinterland occupation and Brasília’s location as moderate spatial solutions to agrarian reform demands
This article investigates the debates over the location of Brazil’s planned capital as discussed by intellectuals associated with Geography between 1947 and 1960.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New article! 'Coal mining, geopolitics and cities: Urban utopias and dystopias in North Bohemia', by Filip M. Alexandrescu, Bohumil Frantál, Petr Klusáček and Ondřej Konečný.
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Coal mining, geopolitics and cities: Urban utopias and dystopias in North Bohemia
In this article we go beyond the casual observation that mining shapes urbanization in specific places (known...
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New book review! Jeremy J. Schmidt on 'The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution and Resistance in Yellowknife', by by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling.
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Book Review | The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution and Resistance in Yellowknife, by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling — McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal (2025), 276 pages, paperback.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New exhibition review! 'Archival encounters and the spatial politics of memory': Jasmine Roberts on Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' (Warburg Institute, 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026).
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Exhibition review: Archival encounters and the spatial politics of memory | Edward George’s 'Black Atlas' (Warburg Institute, 10 Oct 2025 – 17 Jan 2026)
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New! The introduction to our special issue on timber colonialism: 'Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade', by Jim Clifford and Iva Lučić.
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Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade
This introduction to the special issue on timber colonialism argues that forests offer a uniquely...
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
New article: 'Reframing disciplinary memory: A participatory reckoning with colonial legacies in geography at the University of Bonn', by Tobit Nauheim, Johannes Dittmann, Arne Rieber, Jana Stumpp and the KritGeo Student Collective.
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Reframing disciplinary memory: A participatory reckoning with colonial legacies in geography at the University of Bonn
This contribution examines the participatory reframing of a commemorative site at the University of Bonn’s Department of Geography, initiated by stude…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New article! 'From Palmer Street to 28 October Street: Street naming, urban authority and anti-colonial struggle in British Cyprus', by Stella Theocharous, Dionysis Panos and Sebastian Letts.
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From Palmer Street to 28 October Street: Street naming, urban authority and anti-colonial struggle in British Cyprus
Street names may appear mundane, yet they operate as instruments of symbolic power binding spatial order to political legitimacy and structuring strug…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New review! Martin W. Lewis on 'The West: The History of an Idea', by Georgios Varouxakis.
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Review | The West: The History of an Idea, by Georgios Varouxakis — Princeton University Press, Princeton (2025), 491 pages, hardback.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Conference report! @stephenlegg11.bsky.social on 'Cities and Decolonization: Anti-colonial Struggles, Urban Protest, and Global Solidarities in the Twentieth Century' (Wadham College, University of Oxford, 19–20 March 2026).
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Cities and Decolonization: Anti-colonial Struggles, Urban Protest, and Global Solidarities in the Twentieth Century: Wadham College, University of Oxford, 19–20 March 2026
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New article! 'Between written law and lived experience: The Gay and Lesbian archive and the socio-spatial history of sexual regulation in South Africa', by Louise Sarsfield Collins.
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Between written law and lived experience: The Gay and Lesbian archive and the socio-spatial history of sexual regulation in South Africa
This article examines how colonial anti-sodomy laws functioned as strategic tools of sexual governance that continue to shape contemporary LGBTI discr…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New article! 'Continuity and change in urban space: Materiality, commemoration, rhythm and commerce in St Ann’s Square, Manchester', by Tim Edensor and Gary Warnaby.
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Continuity and change in urban space: Materiality, commemoration, rhythm and commerce in St Ann’s Square, Manchester
Though they have taken a variety of forms and served numerous functions, urban squares have been integral elements in the urban fabric since antiquity…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New article! 'Deforestation processes and (re)forestation practices in southern Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries', by Samira Peruchi Moretto.
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Deforestation processes and (re)forestation practices in southern Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
This article examines how the intense deforestation of the Araucaria Forest created space for the introduction of monocultures of alien species in sou…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New article! 'The Augustów Canal as the largest monument in Central and Eastern Europe', by Karol Łopatecki and Dominika Wybult.
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The Augustów Canal as the largest monument in Central and Eastern Europe
The Augustów Canal is a nineteenth-century waterway linking the Biebrza and Neman river systems via eighteen locks and a broader hydraulic landscape t…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue on the theme 'Black Historical Geographies: Querying the Archive', co-edited by Mona Domosh & Caroline Bressey. Abstract deadline: 30 April 2026 Accepted submission deadline: September 30 2026 Details here 👇️
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Call for papers | Black Historical Geographies: Querying the Archive
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New review article! 'HGIS de las Indias database', by Jeremy Mikecz.
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HGIS de las Indias database
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New review! David Zeitlyn on 'Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain ', edited by Renée Mussai.
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Review | Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, edited by Renée Mussai — Thames & Hudson in association with Autograph, London (2025), 304 pages, 394 illustrations, hardcover.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New review! Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann on 'Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship', edited by Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde.
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Review | Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship, by Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde (Eds.) — Series: Mapping the Past, Vol. 3. Brill, Leiden and Boston (2024), 229 pages, paperback.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New review! Maria José Afanador Llach on Jessica M. Lepler's 'Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions'.
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Review | Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions, by Jessica M. Lepler — The University of North Carolina Press, Chapell Hill (2025), 360 pages, paperback.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New 'Historical Geography at Large' article: 'Bench marks of change: Heritage survival, loss, and the reading of landscape', by Catherine Porter, Margaret O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Gabbett.
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Bench marks of change: Heritage survival, loss, and the reading of landscape
Ordnance Survey (OS) bench marks are small, chiselled survey marks, typically composed of a horizontal line or indentation above an upward-pointing ar…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New article! 'Performing the border: Mapping smuggling and state sovereignty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania-Prussia borderlands', by Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, Martynas Jakulis, Aivaras Poška, Andrej Ryčkov and Jurgita Verbickienė.
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Performing the border: Mapping smuggling and state sovereignty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania-Prussia borderlands
Scholars of borders and boundary-making have long emphasized that frontiers are not inert lines on maps but historically contingent, socially produced…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New article: 'Finding and leaving traces: Prehabitation and the presence of the past in the Victorian-era prison', by Dominique Moran, Matt Houlbrook (@tricksterprince.bsky.social) and Jennifer Turner.
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Finding and leaving traces: Prehabitation and the presence of the past in the Victorian-era prison
This article explores how the presentness of the past is produced in historic prisons; specifically, the Victorian-era prison estate of England and Wa…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New review! Ana Raquel Portugal on Junia Ferreira Furtado's 'L’Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century'.
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Review | L’Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century, by Junia Ferreira Furtado — Brill, Leiden and Boston (2025), 342 pages, hardback.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New article! ‘"Fantastic race across the strangest and most desolate landscape": Embodied landscapes and automobiles in Mongolia, 1907–1930', by Tomasz Ewertowski.
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‘Fantastic race across the strangest and most desolate landscape’: Embodied landscapes and automobiles in Mongolia, 1907–1930
This article explores how early twentieth-century automobile travel shaped human experiences of the Mongolian landscape, drawing on travel accounts by…
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New review! Timothy Boon on Ben Burt's 'The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department'.
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Review | The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department, by Ben Burt — Berghahn Books, New York (2025), 163 pages, paperback.
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Conference report: Petra Codato on historical geography at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, 26–29 August 2025 (University of Birmingham).
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Historical geography at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, 26–29 August 2025 (University of Birmingham)
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
New review: Alison Bennett on Edward Armston-Sheret's 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration'.
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Review | On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration, by Edward Armston-Sheret — Nebraska University Press, Lincoln (2024), 320 pages, hardback
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm really pleased to see 'Finding and leaving traces: Prehabitation and the presence of the past in the Victorian-era prison' - co-written with Dominique Moran and Jennifer Turner - is now out in @jofhistgeog.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New article! 'More than asparagus: The development of the canning industry in Brunswick, Germany', by Grace Abou Jaoude, Yevheniia Berchul & Vanessa Miriam Carlow.
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More than asparagus: The development of the canning industry in Brunswick, Germany
The concatenation of technology, fertile hinterlands, and labor contributed to the rise and expansion of the canning industry in Germany and brought a…
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