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Emily Hayes
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Lecturer in Human Geography + RA @OxfordBrookesUniversity. Reviews co-editor@jofhistgeog HistoricalGeography. @RGS-IBG HistoryandPhilosophyofGeography research group. Royal Anthropological Institute Hon. obits editor. @BSHS member. 🕊️💚 and more!
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The new St Anne's Classics undergraduates are here and coming for their first meeting with tutors at 2.30 p.m. Our welfare assistant looks forward to assisting them in their studies.
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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As part of the @ox.ac.uk Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology programme, student Liangyu Geo researched a pair of lotus shoes 'worn by a Chinese lady with golden lily feet' donated to the Museum in 1927. Ornately embroidered with gold thread, the shoes are 13cm long.

go.glam.ox.ac.uk/t1Wv65GtV
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Handcraft a harvest knot with heritage straw worker Penny Maltby, just one of many craft activities to try at our Late Night launching the new MultakaOxford display & trail 'With These Hands', celebrating crafts from across the globe. Fri 7 Nov, 7-10pm. Free but booking required.

bit.ly/46fZNBd
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Adolph Gottlieb, Voyager's Return, 1946
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134992
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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… and last but not least,

‘Conjuring place: The photo-geographical imagination of Thomas Joshua Cooper’, by Joan M. Schwartz.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.06.005

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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‘Oceanopolítica: Therezinha de Castro and the use of maps in the geopolitics of the sea’, by André Reyes Novaes and Mariana Lamego.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.002

(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)

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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!

sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97

Take a look at the issue’s contents below.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Research from the London School of Economics and Political Science has underpinned policy reforms aimed at improving land and housing market efficiency and affordability 🏘️

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/Ymc850WWLsn

#UsingGeography
Supporting planning and housing policy reform around the world | RGS
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October 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Congratulations to Sunil Amrith for winning the British Academy Book Prize for The Burning Earth: A History!

go.nature.com/4nn8XAZ
The Burning Earth: how conquest and carnage have decimated landscapes worldwide
An epic exploration of human history examines how the poor and powerless have fought back — time and again — against those seeking to profit from the planet’s natural resources.
go.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy #WorldAnimationDay!

We’ve come a looong way from this, but it never fails to bring a smile to our faces… just look at that tail wag 🥲
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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New article!

'Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971', by @emilyogorman.bsky.social.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.003
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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'Systematic forest recording using the first cadastral maps: The Brumov estate case study (Czech Republic)', by Petr Dujka.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.005

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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'A historical geography of surveying: Inoh Tadataka's East and Central Japan cartographic expeditions (1800-1803)', by Yuki Iwai & Yuji Murayama.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.06.001

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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New article!

'From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept & typology of historical garden cities in Poland', by Tomasz Spórna, Paweł Sudra, Tomasz Figlus, Łukasz Musiaka, Piotr Kryczka, Agnieszka Lisowska-Kierepka, Dominik Sikorski & Robert Szmytkie

doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.09.004
October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Vol. 89 is out!

sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/89/suppl/C

Take a look at the contents below 🧵

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October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Programme ambitieux demain en 𝐆𝐞́𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 avec 2 exposés accessibles dès 15 ans :

⏺️ La Seine : potamologie chimique
⏺️ La reconstitution des éruptions pliniennes anciennes (2 séances)

Aux Étincelles du Palais, Paris 15e, quartier Balard
billetterie-etincelles.palais-decouverte.fr
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Earlier this year, we also published

'Rethinking Law through Vernacular Records: Archive Encounters and the Recovery of Native Court Records in Uganda', by Sauda Nabukenya bit.ly/4706acd

as part of this occasional series on archival practice in 'Transactions of the RHS' #Skystorian 2/2
October 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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...and last but not least, Maria E. Karssenberg reviews Clive Oppenheimer’s ‘Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes’: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.013

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Nokmedemla Lemtur reviews ‘Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds’, edited by Paul Gilchrist, Peter H. Hansen & Jonathan Westaway: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.012

(Vol. 89)

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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Can technology save the world?

Our Director, Alyssa Gilbert, unpacks the double-edged role of tech in addressing the climate crisis.

➡️ Tune in: imperialbizpodcast.podbean.com/e/ideas-rewi...

@granthamicl.bsky.social @rigb.org @imperialenterprise.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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📸 1930.1401 A Figure of Lakshmi, India. Collector and donor: Frederick Lechmere-Oertel.
🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4994...
Object
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October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Diwali is associated with Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and inviting her into your house during the celebrations is a symbol of good fortune. The lotus flower she sits on and the elephants (representing the monsoon rains) which she holds in her hands are symbols of abundance.
Happy #Diwali!
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily.

View more photographs by the pioneering volcanologist Tempest Anderson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/tempest-anderson-pioneer-of-volcano-photography
September 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Tune in to my radio show at 5pm BST today to hear the fascinating Rosa Dyer from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social telling us all about her research into the usage of bird feathers by indigenous people of South America!
I'm so excited!
Listen live or catch up here: www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
September 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM