Front cover of the book On the Backs of Others. Showing an 1878 illustration of explorer David Livingston, looking very ill, and being carried through a swamp by local several porters in Ujiji, Tanganyika (now Tanzania)

Exciting HPGRG talk: Ed Armston-Sheret on his terrific book On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration (University of Nebraska Press).

Thursday 23rd April at 12-1pm (British Summer Time). Registration essential: shorturl.at/TolWO

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📣 Webinar 📣 20 March (13.00-14.00 GMT) Angela Last (Freie Universität Berlin) will discuss her forthcoming book 'Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project'.
Registration 👉 tinyurl.com/5x4jd9tz
Bio 👉 mutablematter.wordpress.com/about/
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🚨 Announcement 🚨 Engagement Award 2026. The HPGRG is offering £150 to support projects that seek to widen audience engagement within the history and philosophy of geography. Deadline: 30th July 2026. For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/8xakv9vw

📣 Call for nominations 📣 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize for outstanding original work on the history/philosophy of geography or associated fields. The winner has the option of publishing their dissertation on the HPGRG website. Deadline: 17 July 2026. For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/5h6rvp3c

We are delighted to announce the 2025 History and Philosophy of Geography undergraduate dissertation prize winner: Henry Blake, @geogdurham.bsky.social, for his dissertation Foreclosed Futures: Hope, Precarity, and Ambivalence in Contemporary Cornwall. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4jjc4dp6

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Applications for the HPGRG Engagement award are open now!
This award provides £150 to support projects seeking to widen engagement with the history and philosophy of geography. Apply by the 30th July 2025. Full details and application form here: historyphilosophyofgeographyrg.co.uk/engagement-a...

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Our first HPGRG event of 2025 is this Thursday 12-1pm (GMT)! It's an online seminar and discussion for early career researchers about the post-PhD funding landscape led by Maximilian Hepach. Registration is essential: shorturl.at/7ETXl