The @echistsoc.bsky.social Women’s Committee is organising its annual workshop on the 12th of December @ucl.ac.uk This will be an in-person only event. Book now to attend. Details ⬇️
📣 Next GCSJ Seminar
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025 | 12–1PM | online
🔎Rearticulating archives: still thinking with Doreen Massey — exploring how Doreen Massey’s archive invites new questions about our troubled present.
Register to join the critical and creative dialogue: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rearticula...
St George by Monkey Poet
🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏
🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.
Geographers please share!
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#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
WE ARE OPENSPACE!
Our brand new OpenSpace Research Centre website has now been 'soft launched' by the Open University.
You can find out about our current research projects, new PhD opportunities, ongoing collaborations, and our new collective configuration here:
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Right, leaving twitter and coming here
Very grateful to Andrew Popp, our anonymous referees and everyone at Enterprise & Society for making the publishing process an enjoyable experience
The full dataset of digitised DoDs (1882, 1892, 1902, and 1912) is available here: repository.cam.ac.uk/items/dbb91a...
We also looked at the role of financial institutions within the network, finding that interlocks with banks became less important over time, while insurance became an increasingly well-connected sector and linked between smaller local companies and larger internationals.
Using this large dataset, we were able to show how well connected the corporate sphere was at the turn of the 20th century. Networks based around industries rather than proximity became increasingly prominent.
In ‘Beyond the Elite’, we present our findings on the full population of company directors 1880s-1910s, based on the digitised Directory of Directors.
New research paper out in Enterprise & Society
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with @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Bob Bennett @camunicampop.bsky.social
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New paper out in Journal of #UrbanHistory. Drawing on my PhD on water in London, as part of a special issue on all things urban #waterhistory. Managing Flow: Drainage and Flood Control in Eighteenth-Century London journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
