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London Group of Historical Geographers
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The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. lghgseminar.wordpress.com
![10 June 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Robert Suits (UCL)
In pursuit of room temperature: energy, colonialism, and the history of comfort in the United States.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreie65jk22aalk3fgrpefkwxxkhhznzr4ls7rbyfdfhf47u2ewz7wri)
![27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]
A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving:
Stuart Elden (University of Warwick)
Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreidfgf6vasx3pyf25e6ac5k3tovjdteifwa5k7m5tplz7ed7ro74rq)
![13 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Lamin Manneh (Institute of Historical Research)
Freedom among the mangroves: Liberated African villages in colonial Gambia and the environmental limits of abolitionist settler colonialism, 1816–1869
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreiaz33oojmcrm5zpb77y4opv7aq24baaz3wzc7vanffkxgfpxp25zq)
![18 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]
Paul Merchant (National Life Stories, British Library)
Environmental interest and indifference in life story oral histories.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreiehgdppu6mpjm7frns4anolvaopgq4jepa2u2kecgpewfjqkjypau)
![4 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]
David Matless (University of Nottingham)
England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreidkwzlyah6gxub5td45enhrhjeretdrftcqztphch3pm4fqas4s3i)
![18 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]
Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield)
Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreidoge37twbaod65k32svpsqvb5dm2huoi7co3ne5fnlvpf4dixewe)
![21 January 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST
[online only via Zoom]
Julian Agyeman (Tufts University)
Just sustainabilities in policy, planning and practice: reflections on transatlantic environmentalisms.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreiarxgwpwot6pwtrjur2cx3qdqbzcjqwgrrrly7nvjb77qsbqfydrq)
![3 December 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University)
The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreigmeqmt4lbnewrgjx5i2la56llyrjdsk2jfwbvojhbpidbiftfch4)
![12 November 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[online only via Zoom]
Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University)
How does the law obtain its space? Justice and racial difference in colonial law: British Honduras (Belize), 1821.
Discussant: Filiberto Penados (Galen University)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreihifq2afucff72ii6ricujabkklgr2aivnadztenbnheyzuj5xmve)
![5 November 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Imagining liberty: legal geographies of enslaved and free Black people in in late sixteenth-century Sevilla.
* Senate House, South Block, Room 243.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreigme4g25qr3qqv6aorgn3wej7ksh2n6l36og56wnljhxwfv7omglm)
![22 October 2024, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Lisa Ford (UNSW Sydney)
Inquiring into colonial law reform: views from the archives of the Commissions of Inquiry, 1819–1833.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB02.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreifms2qxz5jfqtpfyngel2mlcwk7kbzx4uhxi6zdwhowit6rsuhciu)
![8 October 2024, 5:30 p.m. BST
[in person* and online via Zoom]
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)
The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century.
* Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxvnhf4dxolhngks654sysna/bafkreietir67op7tsigh2dt3du34sq5mebj5hfkv6cauv3q2lgdwueulvu)
