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London Group of Historical Geographers
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The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
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Registration for our hybrid autumn seminar programme—"Bad Habits"—is now live! Full details and registration links here: eepurl.com/jnswZs
A hand-coloured, nineteenth-century lithograph of an engraving by Johann Peter Hasenclever entitled "Weinverkoster in einem Keller".
September 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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June 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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...
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.
June 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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May 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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...
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)
May 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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May 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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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...
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.
May 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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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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March 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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March 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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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...
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.
March 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Remember to register for next week's hybrid seminar:
David Matless on "England’s green: nature and culture since the 1960s" www.history.ac.uk/events/engla...
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.
February 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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...
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.
February 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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-...
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.
January 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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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December 9, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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December 3, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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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... 🗃️
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.
November 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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This panel discussion has now been published in the Journal of Historical Geography: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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November 12, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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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...
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)
November 6, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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November 5, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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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... 🗃️
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.
October 29, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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October 22, 2024 at 10:04 AM