London Group of Historical Geographers

A hand-coloured, nineteenth-century lithograph of an engraving by Johann Peter Hasenclever entitled "Weinverkoster in einem Keller".

Registration for our hybrid autumn seminar programme—"Bad Habits"—is now live! Full details and registration links here: eepurl.com/jnswZs

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10 June 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST [in person* and online via Zoom] Robert Suits (UCL) In pursuit of room temperature: energy, colonialism, and the history of comfort in the United States. * Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Robert Suits on "In pursuit of room temperature: energy, colonialism, and the history of comfort in the United States". Everyone welcome. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/pursu...

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27 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST [online only via Zoom] A panel discussion of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), by Chris Philo (University of Glasgow), involving: Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) Felicitas Kübler (Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. ‬Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...

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13 May 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST [in person* and online via Zoom] Lamin Manneh (Institute of Historical Research) Freedom among the mangroves: Liberated African villages in colonial Gambia and the environmental limits of abolitionist settler colonialism, 1816–1869 * Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Lamin Manneh on "Freedom among the mangroves: Liberated African villages in colonial Gambia and the environmental limits of abolitionist settler colonialism, 1816–1869". Everyone welcome. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/freed...

The logo of the London Group of Historical Geographers, featuring a drawing of Senate House.

Registration for our summer seminar programme—ranging from Liberated Africans in 19th-century Gambia, through Theodor W. Adorno, to the American idea of room temperature—is now live: eepurl.com/jaWTOA

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18 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT [online only via Zoom] Paul Merchant (National Life Stories, British Library) Environmental interest and indifference in life story oral histories.

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: Paul Merchant on "Environmental interest and indifference in life story oral histories". www.history.ac.uk/events/envir...

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4 March 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT [in person* and online via Zoom] David Matless (University of Nottingham) England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s. * Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

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David Matless on "England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s" www.history.ac.uk/events/engla...

18 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT [online only via Zoom] Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield) Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain.

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar: @jennypickerill.bsky.social on "Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain". www.history.ac.uk/events/mud-d...

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21 January 2025, 5:30 p.m. BST [online only via Zoom] Julian Agyeman (Tufts University) Just sustainabilities in policy, planning and practice: reflections on transatlantic environmentalisms.

Remember to register for next week's online-only seminar. Julian Agyeman on "Just sustainabilities in policy, planning and practice: reflections on transatlantic environmentalisms". www.history.ac.uk/events/just-...

Two protesters tied to a tree. A line of men in hard hats and high-visibility tabards stands nearby.

Registration for our spring term of seminars—focusing on the history of the environmental movement—is now live. Details here: eepurl.com/i5Jfq6

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3 December 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT [in person* and online via Zoom] Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University) The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites. * Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Maïa Pal (Oxford Brookes University) on "The law of infrastructure: jurisdictional accumulation and neo-imperialism at British and French undersea cable landing sites". Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/law-i... 🗃️

This panel discussion has now been published in the Journal of Historical Geography: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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12 November 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT [online only via Zoom] Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) How does the law obtain its space? Justice and racial difference in colonial law: British Honduras (Belize), 1821. Discussant: Filiberto Penados (Galen University)

Remember to register for next week's online seminar: Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) on "How does the law obtain its space? Justice and racial difference in colonial law: British Honduras (Belize), 1821". With discussant Filiberto Penados (Galen University). www.history.ac.uk/events/how-d...

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5 November 2024, 5:30 p.m. GMT [in person* and online via Zoom] Chloe Ireton (UCL) Imagining liberty: legal geographies of enslaved and free Black people in in late sixteenth-century Sevilla. * Senate House, South Block, Room 243.

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Chloe Ireton (UCL) on "Imagining liberty: legal geographies of enslaved and free Black people in late sixteenth-century Sevilla". Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/imagi... 🗃️

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22 October 2024, 5:30 p.m. BST [in person* and online via Zoom] Lisa Ford (UNSW Sydney) Inquiring into colonial law reform: views from the archives of the Commissions of Inquiry, 1819–1833. * Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB02.

Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar: Lisa Ford (UNSW Sydney) on "Inquiring into colonial law reform: views from the archives of the Commissions of Inquiry, 1819–1833". Details: www.history.ac.uk/events/inqui...

If you missed this week's talk, "The art of prize: privateers' legal geographies in the long eighteenth century", you can catch up by listening to an audio recording of it here: www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/art...

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The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century

Remember to register for next week's seminar: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on "The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century": www.history.ac.uk/events/art-p... 🗃️ #C18

8 October 2024, 5:30 p.m. BST [in person* and online via Zoom] Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California) The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century. * Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, North Block, Wolfson Room NB01.

Our autumn seminar series—"Law and Empire"—begins on 8 October with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on "The art of prize: privateers’ legal geographies in the long eighteenth century". One for @prizepapers.bsky.social et al. Registration details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/art-p...