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New review!. @aljhlester on Corinne Fowler's 'Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain'. Read it here:

New review!. Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo (@thalassajos) on 'Construcción de un espacio marítimo: El Pacífico y su evolución a partir de sus redes transoceánicas e interamericanas, 1521-1821,' edited by Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos & Raquel E. Güereca Durán. Read it here:

New review!. Shreya Bhattacharya (@S_Bhatta_ ) on Stephen Legg's 'Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London'. Read it here:

New article!. 'Projecting the world: The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920', by @MBuelensTerryn and Thomas Smits. Read it here:

New review!. Alan R.H. Baker on 'The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography', edited by Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan and Charles W.J. Withers. Read it here: @historicalgeog.@HGRG_RGS

New article!. 'Overcoming the crisis: Social & ecological impacts of the 17th & 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) & its surrounding area', by @herrbund, @MilenaObremska, @PAN_charcoal, @PaneckiTomasz, @calliergon & more. Read it here:

New review!. Joan M. Schwartz (@queensu) on Jacalyn Duffin's 'Stanley’s Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island'. Read it here:

New article!. 'The Yellowstone as the longest undammed river in the contiguous United States: An environmental historical geography of a mythic landscape', by Nicolas T. Bergmann (@WSUCSS). (Based on PhD research at @montanastate.). Read it here:

We welcome applications to join our editorial board, from a range of career stages + regional/period & methodological specialisms. We are committed to increase the diversity of our board as part of our mission to decolonise journal practice. Deadline Dec31.

New review!. Deepak Malik on Velayutham Saravanan's 'Water and the Environmental History of Modern India'. Read it here:

15/15. and last but not least:. ‘Industrial Obelisks: Working-class memory and Barcelona's chimney-monuments’, by @brianrosa. Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

14/15. ‘How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war’, by @Stephenlegg11 (reflecting on his participation in an August 2023 summer school led by @aljhlester). Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

13/15. ‘Negotiating Danish identity with(in) Copenhagen's postcolonial landscape of commemoration’, by Doron Eldar. Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

12/15. ‘Contesting monuments, challenging narratives: Divergent approaches to dealing with the colonial past and its legacies in Lisbon, Portugal’, by Sofia Lovegrove and Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro. Read it here: (Special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

11/15. ‘Commemorating Picton in Wales and Trinidad: Colonial legacies and the production of memorial publics’, by Gareth Hoskins and Leighton James. Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

10/15. ‘Memorial as aegis: Colonial sovereignty and the unmaking of the Kanpur Memorial Well Monument’, by Swati Chattopadhyay. Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

9/15. ‘Moving statues: Monuments to empire from London's Waterloo Place to the Maidan in Calcutta’, by Durba Ghosh (@HistorianDurba). Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

8/15. ‘Contentious heritage spaces in post-communist Bulgaria: Contesting two monuments in Sofia’, by Nina Debruyne and Georgeta Nazarska. Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)

7/15. ‘Gandhi falling … and rising’, by Rahul Rao (@thariel). Read it here: (Virtual special issue: ‘Contesting Monuments’)