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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 27d

📣 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.

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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

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

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Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social · Jul 4

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: [email protected]

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!

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · May 22

🗣️ 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

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jun 11

🔭 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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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · May 28

📣 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.

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Mar 31

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-...

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Feb 10

Check out the EAUH Barcelona 2026 call for papers here!

Deadline April 15
www.uantwerpen.be/en/centres/e...

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Feb 6

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...

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 22

And if you have published something new in Global Urban History, or you're hosting a conference, workshop, or event --we'd like our members to know! Email us with the details: communications at globalurbanhistory.org

Home - Global Urban History Project

The Global Urban History Project is a meeting place for scholars interested in exploring the crossroads of urban history and global history. We encourage the study of cities as creations and creators.

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 22

We also share grants, fellowships, and awards as they come up through the year. Check out the full January newsletter and our archive here: globalurbanhistory.org/content.aspx...

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 22

And we shared many calls for papers for conferences ranging from the "Urban Humanities Global (Un)Conference 2" to the "Built Ocean EAHN Thematic Conference"

Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 22

We highlighted upcoming conferences like the "(Un)Freedom in Global Perspective. Actors – Perceptions – Agencies" at the University of Innsbruck and programs like the Urban Research: Theory and Methods Field Training School and the Towards Inclusive Global Histories summer school

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 22

We featured not one but *two* new books in the Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series:
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City by Maria-Aparecida Lopes and María Cecilia Zuleta
and Globalizing Urban Environmental History by Matthew Vitz

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 22

Did you get our monthly newsletter? If not, some highlights from this month's "Noteworthy in Global Urban History"...

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 10

📣 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

Title and abstract for the linked article

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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 10

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.

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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Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social · Jan 10

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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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · Jan 10

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!

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Jan 9

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.

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Jan 9

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...

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · Nov 14

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

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · Jan 8

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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