#Historicalgeography
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

Get the code and data 👇
January 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
September 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#BOTD: Tan Qixiang 譚其驤 (l., 1911–92), Chinese geographer and historian. One of the founders of #HistoricalGeography #歷史地理學, his Historical Atlas of China 中國歷史地圖集 (1982–8) is still the go-to reference book for every student of #ChineseHistory
February 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of Prof David Hey.
They reflect his devotion to the society, economy and landscape of south Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
#LocalHistory #SocialHistory #HistoricalGeography #place
"By taking a revisionist perspective, these authors challenge us to rethink our assumptions, and to apply them to our own areas with the diligence that these authors apply them to theirs." William D. Shannon, The Local Historian www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book... #LocalHistory
Histories of People and Landscape
www.herts.ac.uk
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
🌍 Recent updates to the WHG user interface give faster loading and globe visualisations.

Image: Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection at doi.org/10.60681/whg...

Explore more at: whgazetteer.org !

#DigitalHumanities #HistoricalGIS #GeoHumanities #HistoricalGeography
April 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Suggest you could add @humap.bsky.social historians need new stories told in new ways, #HistoricalGeography #Maps #Mapping
December 3, 2024 at 1:18 PM
January 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
New to blue sky today and it already feels like a breath of fresh air. Hoping to find some new and old friends and feeds here, interested in
#gardenhistory
#planthumanities
#historicalgeography
#naturalhistory
#trees
#phdlife
#research
#archives
and lots more 😀🌳📚
August 21, 2024 at 12:27 PM
#BOTD: Tan Qixiang 譚其驤 (l., 1911–92), Chinese geographer and historian. One of the founders of #HistoricalGeography #歷史地理學, his Historical Atlas of China 中國歷史地圖集 (1982–8) is still the go-to reference book for every student of #ChineseHistory
guoxue123.com/other/map/zg...
February 25, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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March 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Friday reading in preparation for the near future @lghgseminar.bsky.social seminar #CatherineHall #LuckyValley. Inspirational scholarship, insights, and eloquent writing. This is such an important #HistoricalGeography book #HistoricalGeographiesoftheCaribbean #BritishGlobalHistoricalGeographies
March 15, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Wonderful to see another paper from @edbrooks.bsky.social & my #Area special section on #participatory #historicalgeography published. This is a brilliant example of how to cimbine creatuve methods & community engagement to tackle sensitive topics rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how creative counter-maps can be a valuable participatory historical geography tool in their capacity to render visible multiple pasts, presents, and futures, and offer new possib...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
#BOTD: Tan Qixiang 譚其驤 (l., 1911–92), Chinese geographer and historian. One of the founders of #HistoricalGeography #歷史地理學, his Historical Atlas of China 中國歷史地圖集 (1982–8) is still the go-to reference book for every student of #ChineseHistory guoxue123.com/other/map/zg...
February 25, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Grazie allo #Darwin-DohrnMuseum, Naples: szn.it/index.php/en.... I was looking for traces of Scottish natural scientist, geosopher, town planner, Patrick Geddes's stay at the Stazione Zoologica c.1879-1881, but found lots more. He must have had an amazing wife. #historyofscience #historicalgeography
September 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Naxçıvanın tarixi coğrafiyası: (XII-XVIII äsrin 1 yarısı)" by Elnur Kälbizadä

[Halle (Saale): Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2017]

#historicalgeography

dx.doi.org/10.25673/108...
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#Catchoftheday
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:

"Mtaragrowt'iwn hin hayastaneayc' ẹst hin ew ẹst miǰin darow anowaneal amanakac' haneal i groc' meroc' naxneac' ew ayloc' azgac'" by Gowkas Inčičean

[I Vênêtik: I Vans Srboyn, 1822]

dx.doi.org/10.25673/118...

#armenia #historicalgeography
September 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#Historicalgeography #HGRG #RGS #planthumanities #envhum #Geography #history #archives
Call out for any events or news in the world of historical geography that you lovely people would like included in the next HGRG newsletter. Only a few days left before the autumn issue is published. Let me know!
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM