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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.

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · Sep 22
📣 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
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We're pleased to announce that Varun Mallik is joining Team Urban History as our new Bibliographer!

Varun is currently a PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social working on the history of science and environmental history in 18th and 19th century Calcutta.

Welcome to the team Varun!
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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📣 New #OpenAccess article on #FirstView

👻 @charlotte-millar.bsky.social, 'Ghosts and hidden geographies: the affective resonances of space in early modern London'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
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November 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We are delighted to receive today print copies of the three latest titles in our 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, published with @ihr.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social

Each title is available in paperback print and free Open Access: further details bit.ly/4pl2gkA #Skystorians
Photograph of the following three titles: Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, by Gareth Roddy
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Well this is very lovely - Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain named a book of the year by the great @eriklinstrum.bsky.social for History Today!
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Ben Highmore, Playgrounds: The Experimental Years press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Playgrounds
A history of post-war playgrounds and their enduring legacy.   After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, t...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Nic John Ramos, Health as Property: Racial Capitalism and Sexual Liberalism in Los Angeles www.ucpress.edu/books/health...
Health as Property by Nic John Ramos - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Alexander Wood, Building the Metropolis Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Building the Metropolis
A sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world’s great cities.   Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million bu...
press.uchicago.edu
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Joe Malloy, Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music repeaterbooks.com/product/acid...
Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music - Repeater Books
Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, technicolour view of Detroit’s musical and social history from the 1960s to the present day. Redefining the counterculture as a time of Acid Communism, Acid Detroit d...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Stephen. M. Koeth, Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America, press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Crabgrass Catholicism
How suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church.   The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs o...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Tom White, Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster repeaterbooks.com/product/bad-...
Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster - Repeater Books
Once used extensively in schools, hospitals, and housing, asbestos has taken the lives of millions. Bad Dust traces the international history of the asbestos disaster -- from mining operations in apar...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Kyle J. Anderson, The Egyptian Labor Corps Race, Space, and Place in the First World War utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333624/
The Egyptian Labor Corps
During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Jake P. Smith, The Ruin Dwellers Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Ruin Dwellers
Traces the shifting dynamics within leftist activism in 1970s and ’80s Europe and its experiments in art, life, and politics. The Ruin Dwellers takes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts dur...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Jeanne Moisand, A Spanish Commune: The Cartagena Canton and its Worlds www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
A Spanish Commune
The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book.In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Dominic A. Pacyga, Clout City The Rise and Fall of the Chicago Political Machine press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Clout City
Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades. In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it ...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Daniel Wortel-London, The Menace of Prosperity
New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Menace of Prosperity
Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.   Many local policymakers mak...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Joseph Kellner, The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The Spirit of Socialism by Joseph Kellner | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
The Spirit of Socialism is a cultural history of the Soviet collapse. It examines the millions of Soviet people who, during the cascading crises of the collapse and the post-Soviet transition, embarke...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Sharon Rotbard, White City, Black City Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa www.plutobooks.com/product/whit...
White City, Black City - Pluto Press
A hidden history of colonialism and war seen through a changing architectural landscape
www.plutobooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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David H. Pinkey, Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris
A classic history of the creation of modern Paris by Napoleon III and Haussmann
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Stéphanie Roza, Utopia: From the Novel to Revolution www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Utopia
Until the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a popular literary genre, but without concrete political effects. However, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed from an entertaini...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Mattie Armstrong-Price, Respectability on the Line
Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways www.ucpress.edu/books/respec...
Respectability on the Line by Mattie Armstrong-Price - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Excellent performance of Trailblazers: Women Have Always Been Firefighters, tonight at Chapel FM in Seacroft. Audience v appreciative of the interlinked stories and a lively Q&A to end.
Actor Jane Morland as a wartime firewoman A display of historic pictures of firewomen
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Interested in joining Team Urban History? Apply to be our new Bibliographer - deadline is tomorrow, Friday *7th* November

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urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · Sep 22
📣 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
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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So excited to this in the world. I looked at over 100 black business directories from 1838-1975
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM