IHR Research Training

Hosted by the RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG), providing insights into the processes of collaborative writing in historical geography.

A panel of experienced academics will offer advice to historical geographers on how to use the Society's map collections.

Annual undergraduate dissertation prizes, including the Alfred Steers Prize, awarded by the Society and its Research and Working Groups.

Annual undergraduate dissertation prizes, including the Alfred Steers Prize, awarded by the Society and its Research and Working Groups.

A panel of experienced academics will offer advice to historical geographers on how to use the Society's map collections.

Sob a Direção de Thiago Adriano Machado (UFRN) e Caroline Bulhões Nunes Vaz (IFPB) O geógrafo brasileiro Milton Santos (1926-2001) completaria cem anos em 2026. Esta efeméride é uma oportunidade pa...

This article summarises and reflects on the ‘Mapping Indigeneity’ Map Room Conversation that formed part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024. Firstly, the maps from the RGS-IBG collec...

Written in the Waves is excited to announce that we are launching our first volume, Sailing! We are inviting graduate and undergraduate students (min. 4th year), as well as early scholars, to explore ...

Read our information for session organisers about how to organise a session at the conference.

Inviting proposals for session sponsorship that engage with the Chair’s theme, as well as others focusing on all areas of historical geography.

Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts

Journal of Historical Geography

DEADLINE: 17:00 (BST) Monday 23rd February 2026 This session provides a space for postgraduates and early-career scholars undertaking research in Historical Geography to present at a major conference ...

Session organisers may wish to seek the sponsorship of one of the Society's Research Groups for their session.

Discovery Course 1

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election * Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on ​Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Continue reading...

Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.

Explore the significance of Project Naming to decolonize archives and connect Inuit communities with their ancestral photographs.

First academic conference? Discover practical tips from early-career researchers to help you prepare, network effectively, & make the most of every opportunity.