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 👇️
New review!
David Zeitlyn on 'Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain ', edited by Renée Mussai.
New review!
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann on 'Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship', edited by Diana Lange and Benjamin van der Linde.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
New review!
Ana Raquel Portugal on Junia Ferreira Furtado's 'L’Amérique Méridionale: The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century'.
New article!
‘"Fantastic race across the strangest and most desolate landscape": Embodied landscapes and automobiles in Mongolia, 1907–1930', by Tomasz Ewertowski.
New review!
Timothy Boon on Ben Burt's 'The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department'.
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).
New review:
Alison Bennett on Edward Armston-Sheret's 'On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration'.
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...
New article!
'More than asparagus: The development of the canning industry in Brunswick, Germany', by Grace Abou Jaoude, Yevheniia Berchul & Vanessa Miriam Carlow.
New review!
Jesús Israel Baxin Martínez on Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann's 'Mapping Insularity: A Visual History of Islands in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds'.
New review!
Enrique García Hernán on David Rodríguez Couto's 'Imperio y reputación: El viaje de los hermanos Nodal y su mundo'.
New review essay!
'Land reform in the home of enclosure: How to right historical land ownership & environmental injustice in England & Wales' by Carl Griffin, covering:
● 'The Lie of the Land', by Guy Shrubsole
● 'Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You', by Nick Hayes & Jon Moses
New article!
'Hometown bonds, spatial consolidation and socioeconomic transformation of Huiguan in Beijing's modernization', by Wang Changsong & Wang Yitong.
New article!
'Samplers of the marine environment: Knowing the oceans with seabirds, 1958–Present', by Oscar Hartman Davies.
New article!
'Imperial knowledge-making: Spanish and Russian modern time questionnaires as data collection tools', by Nadezda Konyushikhina & Victoria Tkachenko.
New article!
'Precarious place, powerful participation: The historicization of floods and community resilience in Pajaro, California', by Ria Mukerji.
New review!
Apurba Chatterjee on 'Moving Crops and the Scales of History', by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva.
New article!
'From perdition to paradise: Patagonia, Juan Fernández and the Southeastern Pacific in the British geographical imaginary, 1680-1768', by Elizabeth Chant & Natalia Gándara Chacana.
New article!
'Geopolitical enclaves: Space and social-political change in Cold War Taiwan's Military Dependent Villages', by @maxwoodworth.bsky.social.
New review article!
Philip Jagessar on the 'Secret Maps' exhibition at the British Library, London (24 October 2025 – 18 January 2026).
New article!
'Spaces of memory, scales of memory: The Equal Justice Initiative's marking of lynching from Montgomery to Montevallo and beyond, 2015–2025', by Tim Cole.
New review!
William Bainbridge on 'Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in North-West Italy, 1800–1920', by Pietro Piana, Charles Watkins and Rossano Balzaretti.
