CFP: Special issue about Milton Santos at Terra Brasilis Journal.
The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos would have celebrated his centennial in 2026 and this issue offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on his intellectual journey.
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🗓️ Deadline: 31 May
Pleasure to circulate the latest Newsletter edition of the HGRG-RGS. Great line-up of events, news and resources in Historical Geography.
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There is still time to submit your abstracts and present your amazing research at the #RGS Annual International Conference in September!
🕔 Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
#HGRG #PhD #ECR
Always good to remember that America is a continent.
#badbunny
Great to see this article with the fantastic Katie Parker (@rgsibg.bsky.social) now out in @areajournal.bsky.social!
Here we reflect on the 'Mapping Indigeneity' Map Room conversation and think about different ways of working with colonial map collections 🗺️
Historical Geographers!! Do you have any news, cfps, conference sessions, papers, books or events you would like to alert others to in our next #HGRG spring newsletter?
Get in touch with @hcraddock.bsky.social by 13 February and spread the word!
#historicalgeography
#RGS
#news
Call for Papers – Sailing: Introduction to the Atlantic
Written in the Waves – Atlantic History, Written by Women
Deadline: 1 March 2026
Written in the Waves is excited to announce that we are launching our first volume, Sailing!
niche-canada.org/2026/01/28/c...
#envhist #coastalhistory #cdnhist
The call for sessions, papers, and posters for AC2026 is still open 📣
The deadline for all submissions is Friday 6 March 2026.
We recommend that session organisers review our guidance before circulating a call for papers and submitting a session proposal 👇
https://ow.ly/AoyP50Y3IOt
📢Call for session sponsorship, great opportunity for scholars.
🗓️Deadline: 6 February 2026.
www.rgs.org/research/ann...
Fun read
#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨🌾☠️🦜
Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...
New review article!
Philip Jagessar on the 'Secret Maps' exhibition at the British Library, London (24 October 2025 – 18 January 2026).
The Society's Social & Cultural Geography Research Group are excited to launch the 2026 Early Career Event Series!
📝 First session: Getting your first article published
📅 Wednesday 4 February with Rebecca Collins (University of Chester).
Sign up here 👇
https://ow.ly/eQuJ50XXgnr
Apply for the PGR Rep for the SCGRG!
The term is one year. If you are interested, please complete the form, and the committee will contact you with the outcome.
forms.office.com/e/YbbTU9d2XH
For further info, please see: scgrg.co.uk
📣 CFP | RGS-IBG 2026
#HGRG invites PGR & ECR papers for the New & Emerging Research in Historical Geography Session! All stages, any place/period welcome.
🕔 Deadline: 23 Feb 2026
More information below 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A close-up view of historical materials displayed on a flat surface. The focus is on a vintage book titled Land Near the Sun by Evelyn Cheesman, featuring a yellow cover with an illustration of tall palm trees and a small hut. Nearby are other archival items, including an open book and a green document marked with numbered labels for cataloging.
Explore gendered dimensions of exploration history 🗺️
This resource examines evidence of women’s roles in expeditions, challenging dominant narratives and highlighting overlooked contributions to fieldwork and scientific practice 👇
https://ow.ly/Ffyp50XJvIm
#exploration #fieldwork
The call for sessions, papers and posters for our 2026 Annual International Conference is open!
Session organisers can seek sponsorship from one of the Society’s Research Groups.
Find out more and apply 👇
https://ow.ly/wWfr50XLmNq
Lovely way to start my weekend by reading this amazing book! A super relevant book for historical geographers. Congrats to the authors!
Happy 2026!
Join the PHG Conference next week! This free, one-day conference organised by the HGRG-RGS takes place at Newcastle University and online on Friday 12th December. The conference will have paper presentations and workshop. Save the date!
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Logo featuring intertwined white lines on a gray square with the letters H, G, R, G around it, representing the Historical Geography Research Group.
Join the Society's Historical Geography Research Group for their upcoming conference: 'Practising Historical Geography: Porous Archives 2'.
📍 In person (Newcastle University) and online
📅 Friday 12 December
Find out more and register for free 👉 blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
Big thanks for this collaboration!
📯🌎Great pleasure to announce that the special issue "Historical Geography: writing, research and teaching" was published at the Terra Brasilis Journal, an open access journal. Happy to organise this issue with @drjn.bsky.social and Deborah Fontenelle.
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
It is here! Special issue on Historical Geography in #TerraBrasilis Big thanks to @patriciasgeo.bsky.social and #Deborah Fontenelle for this collaborative edited journal issue which has been an absolute pleasure to work on. journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
📯 The Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG - RGS) warmly invite you to take part in the Practising Historical Geography Conference in person at Newcastle University and online, on the 12th December 2025.
Register:
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/porousarchives
🗓️12th December 2025
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
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Spread the word! Happy to be part of this event which celebrates the life and work of the brilliant Brazilian historical geographer Mauricio de Almeida Abreu.
Vol. 89 is out!
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/89/suppl/C
Take a look at the contents below 🧵
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Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Marie Hall (2025) entitled: 'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' with a black banner at the top. Friendships play a fundamental role in everyday life, offering companionship, mutuality, and care, across multiple and intersecting socio-spatial contexts. Drawing on scholarship and activism across feminist geographies, and contributing to this growing field of geographical interest, this piece brings together considerations of solidaristic friendship with/in everyday academic practice. Turning this critical lens inwards, I argue that everyday relational spaces of friendship within academia have radical potential – a radically ordinary praxis? – and yet are often overlooked or undervalued. I suggest that, in being so very ordinary, friendship has the possibility to be much more widely registered and deployed within academic spaces to engender greater and much needed solidarity in current times.
New in Area:
'Friendship in academia: A radically ordinary praxis?' by @smhall.bsky.social
This piece is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
😥😥 the amazing Diane Keaton!
