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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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… 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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‘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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'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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'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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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
Front page of TRHS article: 'Rethinking Law through Vernacular Records: Archive Encounters and the Recovery of Native Court Records in Uganda'. Full abstract: "This article reflects on my experience recovering and organising two judicial archives in Uganda — the High Court and Mengo Court archives — which had long been neglected due to bureaucratic disinterest and legal hierarchies inherited from the colonial period. Together, these archives contained over 150,000 uncatalogued case files documenting how ordinary Ugandans used both native and colonial British courts to contest injustice and claim rights. Their exclusion from formal archives was not incidental; it reflected a legal order that considered British colonial statutes, appellate decisions and English-language records as authoritative expression of law, while dismissing native court records, as informal without precedential value and unworthy of preservation. Drawing on critical scholarship and my own archival experience, I argue that the archive of law should not be seen merely as a collection of sources or as sites of power and knowledge, but as a space where legal authority and legitimacy are produced, preserved, and erased. The recovery of these records not only unearthed a neglected legal history shaped by ordinary people but also challenges dominant narratives of legal authority in Africa. This work also exposed the omissions in the archival collections, the influence of colonial memory, and the importance of vernacular legal records for both historical research and contemporary legal practice."
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

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