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Urban History
@urbanhistory.bsky.social
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Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.

🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
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📣 New #OpenAccess article available on #FirstView

📃 @kimberleynyc.bsky.social, 'Indexing Negro main streets: Black business directories and the development of urban spaces'

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November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🔓 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

👸 Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Griffin Hamilton and Samantha Kidder, 'Cocaine Alley queens: gender, race and drug use in American Midwestern cities, 1890–1920'

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October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🔓 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

🫦 Paul Borenberg and Inez Mannerstedt, 'Geography of lust: spatial patterns of illicit sex in eighteenth-century Stockholm'

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October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Really excited about this new #OpenAccess book by @imadgination03.bsky.social!

"Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally" explores emotional attachment to the historic built environment in Scotland and England, and offers a framework for understanding other historic places

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October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We're delighted to announce that @williamcavert.bsky.social has been awarded the Dyos Prize for 2024!

The Dyos Prize is awarded to the best article submitted to #UrbanHistory in the previous calendar year.

Check out 'Industrial brewing in early modern London' here: doi.org/10.1017/S096...
White text on maroon background reads: Urban History Dyos Prize 2024
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Volume 52, Issue 4 is now out! Featuring:

📜 Erika Kuijpers, Carolina Lenarduzzi, Judith Pollmann, Theo Dekker and Alie Lassche on local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries doi.org/10.1017/S096...

🦁 Anton Kotenko on the origins of St Petersburg’s zoo, 1865–1871 doi.org/10.1017/S096...
White text on maroon background reads: Urban History. New issue now available.
October 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Rounding out this special issue

🇨🇺 Guadalupe García, 'Margarita’s La Habana: colonial ports and Black ecologies in early nineteenth-century Havana'

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October 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🌊 @mgoebel.bsky.social and Xinge Zhai, 'Conclusion: the social environments of port cities in the longue durée'

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September 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🛬 Cyrus Schayegh, 'Emergence of an aero-city: path dependency and ‘internal’ dimensions in BEY/Beirut from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries'

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September 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🌊 Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, 'Troubled waters: rewriting environmental histories of Lagos, 1882–1921'

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September 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🏙️ Anindita Ghosh, 'Settling for less: the uneven urbanization and modernization of nineteenth-century Calcutta'

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September 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🛶 Adrián Lerner Patrón, 'A riverine society: Iquitos and the precarious urbanization of Amazonia'

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September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🛃 Olivia Irena Durand, 'Fragmented cosmopolitanism in the southern borderlands: the socio-environmental histories of New Orleans and Odessa'

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September 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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💩 Lucia Carminati, 'Faecal matters: an excremental archive of early Port Said'

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September 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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⛏️ Sujit Sivasundaram, 'Breaking the sea and digging the earth: wetland infrastructures and social conflicts in late modern Colombo'

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September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🚢 Michael Yeo, 'Before the port city: coastal settlements and colonialism in Borneo'

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September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

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September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

⏩ @samgrinsell.bsky.social, 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity'

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September 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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"Our purpose in The Modern British City is not merely to describe urban change but to explain why British cities, in all their extraordinary multifariousness, look and feel the way they do today"

Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
Front cover - white text on green background reads: The Modern British City 1945-2000. Edited by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith. Photo on cover depicts twe semi-detached (possibly formerly terraced) houses on a street corner in front of the modernist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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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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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

🌱 Jeannette Alden Estruth, 'The roots of inequality: California agriculture and the seeding of Silicon Valley’s technology economy, 1935–1965'

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September 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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📣 New conference report

Kaiyi Zhu Yanchen Sun and Boyang Liu, 'Navigating the discourse of planning history: insights for urban historians from the 20th IPHS biennial conference, Hong Kong, China'

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September 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

Vivienne Seonaid Dunstan, 'The Scottish urban hierarchy and its interaction with the print trade and venues for reading, as revealed by an 1820s trade directory'

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September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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The #EAUH2026 call for papers is now open with *100 sessions* covering a huge variety of #UrbanHistory topics

🔗 www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/
Map of Barcelona from around 1700. The city is surrounded by walls and the Mediterranean Sea, with sail ships depicted sailing on the water.
August 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

🏠 Radosław Gliński, 'Arcaded houses in urban planning: Silesia (Poland) in the European context'

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July 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM