The Urban History Group
@urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social
https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
Congratulations Rebecca! This looks fantastic!
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Congratulations Rebecca! This looks fantastic!
Really great to see @emvchung.bsky.social's wonderful @historicaljnl.bsky.social article covered in @theguardian.com!
Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
And another write up: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mixe...
Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
And another write up: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mixe...
Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester
doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Really great to see @emvchung.bsky.social's wonderful @historicaljnl.bsky.social article covered in @theguardian.com!
Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
And another write up: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mixe...
Check out the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1017/S001...
And another write up: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mixe...
Thank you for your fantastic paper, Adam!
September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thank you for your fantastic paper, Adam!
Can she come to the conference? Asking for a friend
September 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Can she come to the conference? Asking for a friend
🌇 @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social on urban history from the peripheries urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/u...
🎙️ Isabelle Carter on oral history and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/o...
🎙️ Isabelle Carter on oral history and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/o...
Urban history from the peripheries
In 1908, the Warsaw Politseimeister General Meier got into an argument with the city’s president, Alexander Miller. The proverbial bone of contention was the responsibility for the sanita…
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August 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🌇 @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social on urban history from the peripheries urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/u...
🎙️ Isabelle Carter on oral history and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/o...
🎙️ Isabelle Carter on oral history and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/o...
❓ Joe Chick asking what is a town? urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/w...
✈️ Will Sanders on aerial threat and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/a...
📍 Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, urban history, and story-telling urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...
✈️ Will Sanders on aerial threat and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/a...
📍 Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, urban history, and story-telling urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...
What is a town?
What exactly is a town? The answer to this question has been debated for many decades by medieval historians. This blog post explores why this has proven so difficult, how the debate is being shape…
urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
❓ Joe Chick asking what is a town? urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/w...
✈️ Will Sanders on aerial threat and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/a...
📍 Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, urban history, and story-telling urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...
✈️ Will Sanders on aerial threat and the city urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/a...
📍 Charlotte Tomlinson on placemaking, urban history, and story-telling urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...
🗺️ @emvchung.bsky.social on urban history and the digital frontier urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/n...
🏘️ @historywill.bsky.social on urban history and crises of housing urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/u...
🏘️ @historywill.bsky.social on urban history and crises of housing urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/u...
New horizons: urban history and the digital frontier
This year’s conference marks a step forward in the consolidation of the field of urban history in the UK, divesting itself of its de facto ancillary status and propounding a rich and expanding fiel…
urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🗺️ @emvchung.bsky.social on urban history and the digital frontier urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/n...
🏘️ @historywill.bsky.social on urban history and crises of housing urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/u...
🏘️ @historywill.bsky.social on urban history and crises of housing urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/u...