Emily Hayes
@thelighttripper.bsky.social
Historical Geography, Anthropology, History and Philosophy of Science @jofhistgeog board. @RGS-IBG HistoryandPhilosophyofGeography research group. @Royal Anthropological Institute Hon. obituaries editor. @BSHS member. 🕊️💚 and more!
The new African Humanities Research Network (AHRN) provides scholars working within the African humanities with a space for knowledge exchange and research development as well as an intellectual, social and cultural home at CRASSH Learn more and read a Q&A with the convenors https://bit.ly/4yxkh3Z
So happy to be back at the Royal Anthropological Institute today with wonderful photos of Afghan Piruzal people from 1971 on view.
Are you a researcher, student or teacher looking for funding to support a fieldwork project? 📣 Applications for our 2027 grants are now open! Explore the funding opportunities available and how to apply: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/apply-now-for-our-2027-grants
Sadly, we know very little about this photo. We don't have names recorded for the two men pictured, nor are we sure where the cave is located. However, we love the drama of the image and the way one of the archaeologists is silhouetted against the cave mouth.
Bodies, Gods and Other Imponderables: Cross-Cultural Metalogues by Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaçahas now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/4j7J4XA #Anthropology #Sociology
For upcoming International Day of the Girl Child, we're spotlighting our series 'Transnational Girlhoods': bit.ly/4zq3SyA Browse our list of #GenderStudies titles, including #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4zfpwVY #GirlhoodStudies
Join us! 27 October @ 12 noon, Sheffield for 'Feeding Children in Hard Times: School Meals, Poverty and the Cost of Living in Britain' 🍽🍎 2026 ESRC Festival of Social Science www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feeding-ch... #histed @histedsocuk.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social
Feeding Children in Hard Times
School meals, poverty and the cost of living in Britain.
eventbrite.co.uk
The Oxford Mexican Society invite you to celebrate Día de los Muertos after dark at Pitt Rivers! Enjoy short talks & music, try pan de muerto, hot chocolate & tequila, & explore the Latin American collections. Come as you are or show off your best La Catrina/El Catrin costume! tinyurl.com/yspjdp86
Delighted to be supporting this event by @lightbearlane.org to bring the wonder of magic lanterns to life in Exeter's oldest building, St Nicholas' Priory. We will be contributing a pop-up display of our extensive collections. Tickets available here: lnkd.in/eEZXzRh5 #magiclanternsky #cinemasky
👂🏼🦻🏾🎧 🔊 to the ready! Great to hear and see so much 🖤 out there for Steve Reich: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
Only connect: two composers who put humans at the heart of their music, and the conductor who didn’t
This week, from Reich to Kendall and Celibidache, three musicians who prove there is no such thing as “pure music”, whether we’re talking about a technique, a mode of musical expression or a musician’...
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👉🏼 Interested in histories of social, cultural and physical anthropology? The Royal Anthropological Institute’s Obituaries page is one of many useful research and teaching resources made available online by the RAI: therai.org.uk/archives-and...
Obituaries - Royal Anthropological Institute
The RAI online obituaries project comprises biographical essays covering the life and work of deceased and distinguished anthropologists—usually though not necessarily RAI Fellows. RAI obituaries are ...
therai.org.uk
My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*
Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and
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Visit our 25th anniversary exhibition! 🎉 Knowledge in a Fractured World CRASSH, CB3 9DP 5 Oct- 11 Dec 9am-7pm weekdays PV 19 Oct 5.30pm RSVP https://bit.ly/3VBgR1x A showcase of interdisciplinary research alongside a fascinating collection of works by international artists.
One for historical geographers. In cinemas from 2 October: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
‘They raped our country’: documentary follows Kenyans’ fight for restitution over stolen land
Multinational tea companies still occupy ancestral highlands of communities displaced during British colonial era
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Prof. Leigh in Edinburgh was able to catch up with two very old and cherished friends: Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott. Both as seen at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
What can have taken Prof. Leigh to the home of Lodge No. 1 in Edinburgh on Saturday, the oldest active masonic lodge in the world? It was a thoroughly enjoyable seminar run by Lodge Sir Robert Moray 1641 on masonic history. They could not have been more welcoming to this academic outsider.
💡🏠 Excited about Petroc Trelawney’s @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social ‘Where the lights sings’ programmes on lighthouses and music: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Where the Light Sings, Live from a Mystery Lighthouse
One by one, the lights come on in a live musical adventure around Britain’s lighthouses.
bbc.co.uk
New article! 'Layers of segregation: Building-level evidence from early-nineteenth century Ghent', by Martijn Collijs. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
Layers of segregation: Building-level evidence from early-nineteenth century Ghent
Journal of Historical Geography
doi.org
New article! 'The man who made planets: Kenneth S. Fagg and Geo-Physical Maps, Inc.', by Veronica della Dora. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
The man who made planets: Kenneth S. Fagg and Geo-Physical Maps, Inc.
Journal of Historical Geography
doi.org
🎭 Reminder! Don't miss your chance to see The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade—supported by a BSHS OEC Grant— at the British Science Festival on 19 Sept in Southampton. bshs.org.uk/cambridge-fi... firebrigademusical.com Free tickets: www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
New book review! Jed DeBruin on 'Historical Geographies: The Basics', edited by Paul Griffin and Cheryl McGeachan.
Review | Historical Geographies: The Basics
Journal of Historical Geography
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New book review! Arianna Tozzi on Ashok Malhotra's 'Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969'.
Review | Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969
Journal of Historical Geography
doi.org
New article! 'Reading place and race through J.B. Harley and Stuart Hall: Memory and ideology in the United States Civil War maps of a nineteenth-century student', by Jacob C. Barton. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
Reading place and race through J.B. Harley and Stuart Hall: Memory and ideology in the United States Civil War maps of a nineteenth-century student
Journal of Historical Geography
doi.org
Attending the #rgsibg26 conference? The Journal of Historical Geography-sponsored lecture by @carolinebressey.bsky.social is taking place on Thursday 3 September in the Ondaatje Theatre, 9am-10.40am. Join us! Details here: event.ac2026.exordo.com/presentation... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @rgs.org
New article! 'Fluid alliances: Human, technical, and exotic aquatic actors in the making of the aquarium in Germany from 1870 to 1914', by Edward Ofori-Annor and Boris Braun. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
Fluid alliances: Human, technical, and exotic aquatic actors in the making of the aquarium in Germany from 1870 to 1914
Journal of Historical Geography
doi.org
New book review! Matías González-Marilicán on 'Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation', by Charles Watkins.
Review | Trees Ancient and Modern: Woodland Cultures and Conservation
Journal of Historical Geography
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