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GUHP (globalurbanhistory.org) is a meeting place for scholars interested in exploring the crossroads of urban history and global history.
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📣 We're looking for a new Bibliographer to join the #UrbanHistory team!

This is a great opportunity to get involved with a world-leading academic journal and find out about the latest urban history publications.

Apply by 5pm on Friday 6 November. Contact Roey Sweet for more details.
Call for Bibliographer for Urban History Urban History seeks to appoint a new bibliographer to compile our annual bibliography of publication in urban history. This is an exciting opportunity to become involved with a world-leading journal for urban historical research. Urban History is published by Cambridge University Press and occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities and supplementary material including periodical reviews, thesis reviews and book reviews. The bibliography, which has a global coverage, provides an essential tool for researchers interested in exploring recent publications and historiographical trends in their fields. About the bibliographer role The role involves the following tasks: • Searching for books, book chapters and journal articles published in the preceding calendar year, using online resources (journal websites, the Bibliography of British and Irish History and publishers’ websites). • Compiling a bibliography of all the entries ordered by thematic categories (typically 1000 entries). • Working with the production team at Cambridge University Press to check and proof-read copy edits before final production. We expect the new bibliographer to be able to start on 1 January 2026. We are happy to receive applications from individuals at different career stages and we welcome applications from historians – working in any context – from under-represented groups, including those from minoritized ethnic groups, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ people, and those who are ‘first generation’ in Higher Education. The positions attract an annual honorarium. Continues on next image Successful candidates will be fully supported by the the journal editors (Shane Ewen, Prashant Kidambi, Roey Sweet, Domenic Vitiello and Rosemary Wakeman). How to apply Those interested in making an application for the position of review editor should send to Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk) • a CV (no more than 3 pages) • a summary of 300 words outlining your interest in the role Enquiries Informal enquiries about the role, including honorarium payments, can be made to: Professor Roey Sweet rhs4@le.ac.uk Deadline Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 6 November
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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We were delighted that Global Urban Historians from five continents were able to gather at GUHP2 Berlin earlier this month!

Read our conference report and see more photos on our website:
globalurbanhistory.org/guhp2-berlin...
July 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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We're gearing up for our Berlin conference, starting in just three short days!!

Check out our full conference program, and don't forget to register to attend!

globalurbanhistory.org/guhp2-berlin...
July 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I'm looking for participants for my oral history on space and feminism! Please share with anybody you feel may have contacts and email me if you have any questions or would like to get involved: sinead.carter@pgr.reading.ac.uk
As part of my PhD research on space (i.e the built environment/social space) and feminism during the British Women’s Liberation Movement, I’m looking for oral history participants to interview about their experiences. You don’t need to have thought about space and your activism- I’m just interested in your experiences! If you were involved in Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism, or feminist architecture from c.1968-1990 (ish), you can contact me on this platform or email me: sinead.carter@pgr.reading.ac.uk. Please share with anyone you think may have contacts!
July 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🗣️ Public lecture
On the 2nd of July Prof. em. Carl Nightingale will give a public lecture titled ‘Urban History and Earth Time: Five Big Stories About Cities and Their Planet’.
The lecture will be followed by a reception. Register before Friday 30 June via this link: lnkd.in/e67JhpDd
May 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
🔭 Glimpse the future of Global Urban History 🔭

Join us for the 2024-25 GUHP Emerging Symposia on June 12 and 19, 11-3:30 UTC

At these two virtual events this year's cohort of GUHP Emerging scholars will present drafts of their GUHP2 Berlin presentations!

More info: tinyurl.com/yr8tfnmz
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June 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and short text under the title ‘Can you help us?’ requesting participation.
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Don't miss @mgoebel.bsky.social's talk at Columbia next week (April 10) titled "Petty Capitalists: Race, Migration & Real Estate in 19th-Century Buenos Aires"!

Registration: ilas.columbia.edu/events/race-...
March 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Check out the EAUH Barcelona 2026 call for papers here!

Deadline April 15
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
Two new additions to the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series just dropped:

Ambe J. Njoh's Africa in Urban History and Ian Morley's The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning are free online thru 2/27!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
February 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Did you get our monthly newsletter? If not, some highlights from this month's "Noteworthy in Global Urban History"...
January 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

⚡ Chenxiao Li, 'The rise and fall of Japan’s municipal electricity regulation, 1889–1939'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistoryTitlea
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January 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The latest @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element in Global Urban History is out. Congratulations to Maria-Aparecida Lopes and Maria Cecilia Zuleta. More info on the blog will follow soon.
mgoebel.bsky.social Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · Jan 10
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City. I'm delighted to announce the latest addition to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History, by Maria-Aparecida Lopes and Maria Cecilia Zuleta. As usual, free downloads in the coming days here: n9.cl/5vl76
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City
Cambridge Core - Global History - Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City
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January 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
globalurbanhistory.bsky.social
Recently published:

Cyrus Schayegh's introduction to the Urban History special issue on Empire and Cities (a fruit of GUHP's working group on Cities, Empires, and Their Discontents)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Empire and Cities: Introduction | Urban History | Cambridge Core
Empire and Cities: Introduction
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January 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The Global Urban History Project is now on bsky:

@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social

Follow GUHP, if you are interested in the crossroads of urban and global history!
January 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Job Opportunity!

The Department of History at Le Moyne College invites applications for a non-tenure track one-year position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor with a Latin American history specialization.

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January 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Our first event of 2025 will focus on community heritage in action in Lancashire. Come to hear Alison Lloyd Williams (from Global Link Development Education Centre) & Corinna Peniston-Bird (from Lancaster Uni) 22.02.25, 5.30pm, online. Find more info & sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/events/docum...
January 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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As this site is coming alive, I tried to help my own orientation by creating a starter pack for global urban history. Suggestions welcome go.bsky.app/3FUgYoE
November 14, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: CfP for a very promising conference at the University of Helsinki, 5-6 June: rb.gy/1t3rar
Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity  | H-Net
Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity    Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025
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January 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM