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Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS

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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

🔬 Susan E. Whyman, 'Edmund Rack: master of knowledge, scientific societies and social networks in eighteenth-century Bath'

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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

🔬 Susan E. Whyman, 'Edmund Rack: master of knowledge, scientific societies and social networks in eighteenth-century Bath'

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Check out Sam's article 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' for free: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

And catch up on our seminars and interviews: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@universitypress.cambridge.org

Urban History as Urgent Work: Erika Hanna in Conversation with Sam Grinsell Erika Hanna's interviews Sam Grinsell on urban history as urgent work. Read Prof. Ginsell's Urban History as Urgent Work, an Argument for Disciplinary…

In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of sexuality? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

IAS Book Launch: The Cambridge Urban History of Europe We are pleased to host the international launch of this three-volume urban history of Europe - from ancient to contemporary times - and to welcome the editors and many of the contributors.

International launch of the Cambridge Urban History of Europe

Ft. our own Roey Sweet in conversation with the series editors Maarten Prak, Penelope Davies, Christina Williamson, Patrick Lantschner, Dorothee Brantz & Gábor Sonkoly

🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏰ 6:15 pm–8:15 pm
📍 @ucl-ias.bsky.social

A new year means a fresh crop of books! I've compiled a list below of new and upcoming tiles I would love to get reviewed for @urbanhistory.bsky.social. If you want a copy of one of these in return for a review, let me know! Beginning with vol III of the awesome-looking Cambridge History of Europe!

Dafeng Xu, Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy www.press.jhu.edu/books/subjec...

Savages and Beasts The Birth of the Modern Zoo

Nigel Rothfels, Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Preserved A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America

Dean Lampros, Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The Limits of Revolution The role of Bolivian mining families in revolution and politics. In 1952, Bolivia’s Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) swept into power, promising co...

Elena McGrath, The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333297/

The Spirit of Socialism by Joseph Kellner | Hardcover | Cornell University Press The Spirit of Socialism is a cultural history of the Soviet collapse. It examines the millions of Soviet people who, during the cascading crises of the collapse and the post-Soviet transition, embarke...

Jospeh Kellner, The Spirit of Socialism, www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Playgrounds A history of post-war playgrounds and their enduring legacy.   After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, t...

Ben Highmore, Playgrounds: The Experimental Years press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Katrina Navickas (@katrinanavickas.bsky.social) Contested Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

Catalogs Booksellers and Librarians: Our new seasonal catalogs are available through Edelweiss.

Kyle J. Anderson, The Egyptian Labor Corps Race, Space, and Place in the First World War utpress.utexas.edu/catalogs/

Clout City Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades. In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it ...

Dominic A. Pacyga, Clout City The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

White City, Black City - Pluto Press A hidden history of colonialism and war seen through a changing architectural landscape

Sharon Rotbard, White City, Black City Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa (new edition) www.plutobooks.com/product/whit...

Utopia Until the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a popular literary genre, but without concrete political effects. However, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed from an entertaini...

Stephanie Roza, Utopia: From the Novel to Revolution www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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🏙️ Yuansha Niu, 'Colonial concepts in motion: the Shanghai Bund and its British imperial genealogies'

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A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

*drum roll*

Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

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🏛️ Mats Hallenberg, @mlinnarsson.bsky.social and Pär Blomkvist, 'Explaining the welfare city: publicness, citizenship and the expansion of public services in Nordic cities, c. 1850–1920'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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🚾 @justinepick.bsky.social, 'Perilous privies and public health: the nature and impact of ‘dry’ municipal conservancy systems in urban England, 1870s–1920s'

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Lots of great books going free* 👇

*In return for a review

Congratulations on the publication of your fantastic article @justinepick.bsky.social!

Very interesting article on privies, sanitation, and disease in urban England, c 1870-1920s. And flies. (@juliehardwick.bsky.social might be of interest to you, though a bit later?)

#HistSTM #HistMed #UrbanHist folks, this one's for you 🗃️👇

🎉My first peer reviewed article just published in Urban History as FirstView!
Following on from my thesis, it covers privy pails & ashpits, the fly problem, public health, mortality & sanitation investment

A smooth & stress free publishing experience @urbanhistory.bsky.social
#OpenAccess #histmed

Sessions - NGM2026 SessionsOpen sessions The accepted session proposals have been grouped into several themes, listed below, and authors are invited to submit abstracts for these sessions. To view session descriptions w...

Working on sound and urban governance? Fancy a trip to Reykjavík in June? Then consider submitting a paper to the session on "Urban Sound from Noise to Asset: Sonic Borderlands, Aesthetic Values and Spatial Disciplining in the City", organised by Laleh Foroughanfar and me ngm2026.hi.is/sessions/

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