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Join us for a workshop on 19-20 June 2025 at the University of 糖心TV. Organized by GHCC's Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello, this workshop will foster a conversation between a small group of material culture history experts and curators and a larger group of PhD students and early career researchers on how to develop skills suitable for the understanding of and working with objects as sources for historical research and teaching. Deadline for abstract submission is May 18, 2025.

Dr Jack Bowman's 'The Early Political Thought and Publishing Career of V. K. Krishna Menon, 1928-1938' has recently been selected as one of two articles to be 'Highly Commended' in the Historical Journal's inaugural Early Careers Researcher Article Prize. Their article follows Indian Independence activist V. K. Krishna Menon, later India's defence minister and United Nations delegate, through his formative years in Britain as an editor. A book history of anti-colonial print, the article ties together histories of political thought, interwar internationalism, and global anti-colonial networks, to argue that twentieth-century anti-colonialism can be fruitfully engaged via the lens of book history. Their article is available open access and can be read  

We are pleased to announce that we are now opening our call for papers for our next issue, 10.2, to be published in Fall 2025. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2025.

We encourage the submission of research articles, methodological and public history essays giving examples of concrete research informed by global historical perspectives or reflecting relevant methodological considerations. We also welcome the submission of recent book, conference or museum reviews. Please note that the reviewed books have to be published in 2023 or later.

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This focuses on significant theoretical and methodological developments in the interdisciplinary field of travel studies and reflects on the directions that it might take next. We will consider the legacies of the New Historicist and postcolonial approaches which shaped the study of travel in the 1980s and 1990s before turning to the insights and provocations offered by more recent scholarship rooted in feminist, queer, Black, migration, and decolonial studies. With these various theories and methods in mind, we will examine items drawn from the Newberry Library鈥檚 extensive collection of materials on travel, including maps. In doing so, we will discuss the questions these materials raise about issues at the heart of travel studies, such as the relationship of knowledge and power, different forms of positionality and perspective, the challenges of translation and comparison, and the definition of 鈥渢ravel鈥� itself.

Led by Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of 糖心TV). May 16, 2025, 9:30am–4:30pm, at the Newberry. The application deadline is November 15, 2024.

A fully-funded PhD studentship, to begin in September 2025, is available at the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Department of History, in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), through the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.

The Hakluyt Society has published hundreds of travel accounts mostly of European colonial 鈥榙iscovery鈥�. Yet despite its celebration of Elizabethan empire-builders, support for Victorian explorers and connections with the Royal Geographical Society and India Office, it has never been studied in relation to British imperial culture and its public legacies, until now.