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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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New article! 'Where amenity and modernity collided: The Lake District national park and West Cumberland's atomic coast', by Gary Willis. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.005

New article! 'Surviving the agricultural periphery: Climatic resilience and livestock production in pre-industrial central Scandinavia', by Martin Karl Skoglund. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.006

In memory of Cole Harris, 1936–2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.004

New article! 'Mapping Europe in war and peace, 1915-1919: B. C. Wallis and the 1919 Peoples of Austria-Hungary Handbook and Atlas', by Róbert Győri and Charles W.J. Withers. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.010

In memory of Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–2022. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Huge congratulations to Nadezhda Mamontova, whose JoHG article 'The Nuclear Anthropocene of the Soviet north: Cold War vernacular collecting and mining uranium, and its legacies' has won the BASEES Women’s Forum article prize. Prize info: basees.org/basees-women... Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Michael P. Conzen on Martyn J. Bowden's 'Great Ports of the Mercantile Era'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

In memory of P. Thankappan Nair, 1933–2024. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Stephanie Rutherford on Richard C. Hoffman's 'The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries'. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.009

New article! 'Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea', by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002

New review! Carme Montaner on 'Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination', by Carla Lois. Read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.003

New article! 'Projecting the world: The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920', by Margo Buelens-Terryn and @thomassmits.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Alan R.H. Baker on 'The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography', edited by Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan and Charles W.J. Withers. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Alan R. H. Baker on 'The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography', edited by Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan and Charles W.J. Withers. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New article! 'Overcoming the crisis: Social and ecological impacts of the 17th and 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) and its surrounding area', by @herrbund.bsky.social et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Joan M. Schwartz on Jacalyn Duffin's 'Stanley’s Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New article! 'The Yellowstone as the longest undammed river in the contiguous United States: An environmental historical geography of a mythic landscape', by Nicolas T. Bergmann. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New review! Deepak Malik on Velayutham Saravanan's 'Water and the Environmental History of Modern India'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

We welcome applications to join our editorial board, from a range of career stages as well as regional, period and methodological specialisms. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our board as part of our mission to decolonise journal practice. Deadline: Dec 31 Details: bit.ly/JHGBoard

Our virtual special issue, ‘Contesting Monuments’ is out! Read the introduction, ‘Contesting Monuments: Heritage and Historical Geographies of Inequality’, written by the issue editor @stephenlegg11.bsky.social, here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... Take a look at the issue’s contents below 🧵 1/15

New review! Charles Watkins on Alexandra Harris's 'The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape'. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Check out my review of @widewhitestage.bsky.social's excellent book for @jofhistgeog.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New review article! 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism': A roundtable with @milesogborn.bsky.social, Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh... @lghgseminar.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

New article! 'Land reform catalysts of capitalism and communism: 150 years of agricultural change in Romania', by Elena-Ana Urșanu (Popovici), Ines Grigorescu & Irena Roznoviețchi (Mocanu). Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New online-first article! 'The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea', by Marco Petrella and Matteo Proto. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

New article! 'Historical geographies of a Damascan population crisis: Jawlān and Ḥawrān in the late Mamluk - early Ottoman periods', by Mustafa Abbasi and Kate Raphael. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

Very pleased to have been part of this roundtable on Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (CUP, 2024) With Herman L. Bennett, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Bill Schwarz and Catherine Hall herself www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article! 'Multisensorial hydrography with Venetian depictions from 1880 to 1895', by Daniel A. Finch-Race. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...