Stephen Legg
@stephenlegg11.bsky.social
Historical Geographer of 20th-Century Interwar Indian Urban, Colonial, Imperial and International Worlds. https://stephenleggeog.wordpress.com
Pinned
So after, ahem, 18 years, this is published (South Asia edition in pipeline). A follow-up book, of sorts, looking at New&Old Delhi together, but as spaces of anticolonialism, with parrhesia as the governmentality framework, and a subaltern foci.See 🧵..
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
ugapress.org/book/9780820....
Wow! Congratulations!
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations!
🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual...
📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...
🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual...
📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Wow! Congratulations!
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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’)
16/16
‘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’)
16/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
… 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’)
16/16
‘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’)
16/16
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New article!
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New article!
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
'From ash to timber capitalism: Market incentives and the ecology of German settlement in central Poland (1650–1870)', by Jawad Daheur.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.007
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New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
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New review!
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
Rodrigo Moreno on Sara Caputo's 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel '.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.001
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New article!
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New article!
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
'Knowledge erosion: Floods and the regularisation of the river Tiber, 1870–1937', by Salvatore Valenti.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.008
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New review:
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review:
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
Joanna Sassoon on 'The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West' by Martha A. Sandweiss.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.001
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In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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New review!
Rudrani Garg on Colin Flint's 'Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.011
Rudrani Garg on Colin Flint's 'Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.011
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New review!
Rudrani Garg on Colin Flint's 'Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.011
Rudrani Garg on Colin Flint's 'Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower'.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.011
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A short piece commemorating 100 years since the signing of the Locarno Treaties and some discussion of territorial integrity today
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
100 years since the Locarno Treaties and territorial integrity today
On 1 December 1925, the Locarno Treaties were signed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Italy, with some of the additional treaties also including Poland and Czechoslovakia as signatori…
progressivegeographies.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A short piece commemorating 100 years since the signing of the Locarno Treaties and some discussion of territorial integrity today
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/30/1...
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I will give a talk next week at the Warburg Institute’s Map and Society seminar series about the history and politics of mapping soils. You can join online or in London if you are interested.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Maps and Society - 'Mapping Soils in the Early 20th Century and the Material Politics of Internationalism'
warburg.sas.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I will give a talk next week at the Warburg Institute’s Map and Society seminar series about the history and politics of mapping soils. You can join online or in London if you are interested.
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Deeply grateful for this review by Ishan Saraf, the first of a forthcoming forum, which asks of Spaces of Anticolonialism what I'd ask of it, but also pays it the most amazing compliment; that it "does much more than it sets out to do." 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Deeply grateful for this review by Ishan Saraf, the first of a forthcoming forum, which asks of Spaces of Anticolonialism what I'd ask of it, but also pays it the most amazing compliment; that it "does much more than it sets out to do." 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Protest over future of university language courses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Protest over future of University of Nottingham language courses
The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Protest over future of university language courses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thanks so much for this contribution!
Massive thanks to @stephenlegg11.bsky.social for organising the session, and to all the attendees who shared their thoughts on the day!
Full 'Map Room Conversations' special issue coming soon!
Full 'Map Room Conversations' special issue coming soon!
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Thanks so much for this contribution!
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A wee trailer for the about-to-be-released interactive 3D model of the Empire Exhibition of 1938. The original modelling of all these pavilions was done in 2007. This new app incorporates archival materials and quotes from contemporary Glaswegians.
#Glasgow #history #research #playfulLearning #3D
#Glasgow #history #research #playfulLearning #3D
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Fantastic initiative, well done all!
It is here! Special issue on Historical Geography in #TerraBrasilis Big thanks to @patriciasgeo.bsky.social and #Deborah Fontenelle for this collaborative edited journal issue which has been an absolute pleasure to work on. journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
22 | 2024 Geografia Histórica
journals.openedition.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Fantastic initiative, well done all!
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📯🌎Great pleasure to announce that the special issue "Historical Geography: writing, research and teaching" was published at the Terra Brasilis Journal, an open access journal. Happy to organise this issue with @drjn.bsky.social and Deborah Fontenelle.
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📯🌎Great pleasure to announce that the special issue "Historical Geography: writing, research and teaching" was published at the Terra Brasilis Journal, an open access journal. Happy to organise this issue with @drjn.bsky.social and Deborah Fontenelle.
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
journals.openedition.org/terrabrasili...
Please do share widely !
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Please do share widely !
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48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing.
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing.
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Sussex School for Progressive Futures Scholarships : University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)
Inside 10 Downing Street, the creaky old house that runs Britain
Mice, “nan’s bathrooms,” carpets duct-taped together — and terrible phone signal. Is there a worse place to run a country from than 10 Downing Street?
www.politico.eu
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
'One senior ally of Starmer has been heard describing Larry the Cat, who has been No. 10’s “chief mouser” since 2011, as a metaphor for the British state — old, lazy, too pampered to do the job he was hired for (catching mice), yet unsackable due to a sense of fondness and tradition.' (1/5)
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Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Genealogy of Genealogy
A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows tha...
press.uchicago.edu
November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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James Delbourgo, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now - WW Norton, August 2025
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Noble Madness
“In this fascinating, witty, and provocative book, Delbourgo’s collectors range from emperors to scientists, from shopaholics to taxonomists, from bibliomaniacs to serial killers. Give it ...
wwnorton.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
James Delbourgo, A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now - WW Norton, August 2025
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
wwnorton.com/books/978039...
London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, online, 18 Nov 2025, 5.30pm. Registration required.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
JOB: Assistant Professor in Environmental History, University of Warwick, Coventry campus (UK) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
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