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For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/12/exploring-georeferenced-maps-from-the.html #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/12/exploring-georeferenced-maps-from-the.html #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

NEU: #WerkstattGeschichte 92
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#Werkstatt: Daniel Gerster stellt Ansätze vor, wie die #Raumgeschichte einen gewinnbringenden Beitrag zur #Zeitgeschichte des bundesdeutschen #Rechtsextremismus leisten kann:

▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-92-daniel-gerster

@histodons

#Histodons #ExtremeRight #ExtremeRechte #SpatialHistory #ContemporaryHistory #GermanHistory #SpatialTurn #Raumaneignung #Gewaltforschung

NEU: #WerkstattGeschichte 92
🧵 6/

#Werkstatt: Daniel Gerster stellt Ansätze vor, wie die #Raumgeschichte einen gewinnbringenden Beitrag zur #Zeitgeschichte des bundesdeutschen #Rechtsextremismus leisten kann:

▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-92-daniel-gerster

@histodons

#Histodons #ExtremeRight #ExtremeRechte #SpatialHistory #ContemporaryHistory #GermanHistory #SpatialTurn #Raumaneignung #Gewaltforschung

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587–1641), pioneer #geographer who travelled late #Ming #明 #China and left an enormous oeuvre, comprising almost half a million characters #漢字 and compiled in the Travel Records of Xu Xiake 徐霞客游记. #geography #spatialhistory

Nach langer Zeit mal wieder in Konstanz. Auch mit Datenbeispielen aus #DigiKAR. #geohumanities #spatialhistory

New flyers! 📯Call for participants is OPEN, please share widely

#histodons #earlymodern #medieval #travelhistory #digitalhistory #dh #digitalhumanities #spatialhistory

New flyers! 📯Call for participants is OPEN, please share widely

#histodons #earlymodern #medieval #travelhistory #digitalhistory #dh #digitalhumanities #spatialhistory

Congratulations to Rachel Midura (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), who has been awarded a $74,281 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for "Early Modern Digital Itineraries: Workshops for a Data-Driven Approach to Premodern Travel: a series of workshops for #digitalHumanities scholars of early modern Europe to establish a professional network of researchers on premodern digital, #spatialHistory and explore how geographical information found in primary sources ..."

Today's topic in my undergrad spatial history module is "Other Spaces," reflecting on what historians might gain from exploring gates, bridges, walls, and elevators. Some works we discussed include:

- Simmel’s ‘Bridge and Door’
- The Strait Gate by Daniel Jütte
- Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst
- Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison
- Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernhard

#histodons #spatialhistory

Today's topic in my undergrad spatial history module is "Other Spaces," reflecting on what historians might gain from exploring gates, bridges, walls, and elevators. Some works we discussed include:

- Simmel’s ‘Bridge and Door’
- The Strait Gate by Daniel Jütte
- Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst
- Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account by Thomas Harrison
- Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernhard

#histodons #spatialhistory

Running a class today with masters students on “spatial imaginaries”. We tried to offer an introduction and via footnotes some readings on the concept (aka “mental maps”) in our Guide to Spatial History here: https://spatialhistory.net/guide/spatial-imaginaries.html

Said’s Orientalism is the most famous example but other examples we’ll talk about today: “the West”, “Eastern Europe” and Japanese imaginaries of “Southeast Asia”:

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/political-spaces/riccardo-bavaj-the-west-a-conceptual-exploration

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/mental-maps/frithjof-benjamin-schenk-mental-maps-the-cognitive-mapping-of-the-continent-as-an-object-of-research-of-european-history

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429291739-17/regional-imaginaries-konrad-lawson?context=ubx&refId=e6fc684b-34d7-4658-b9f0-336d5a34d741

#histodons #spatialhistory

Running a class today with masters students on “spatial imaginaries”. We tried to offer an introduction and via footnotes some readings on the concept (aka “mental maps”) in our Guide to Spatial History here: https://spatialhistory.net/guide/spatial-imaginaries.html

Said’s Orientalism is the most famous example but other examples we’ll talk about today: “the West”, “Eastern Europe” and Japanese imaginaries of “Southeast Asia”:

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/political-spaces/riccardo-bavaj-the-west-a-conceptual-exploration

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/mental-maps/frithjof-benjamin-schenk-mental-maps-the-cognitive-mapping-of-the-continent-as-an-object-of-research-of-european-history

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429291739-17/regional-imaginaries-konrad-lawson?context=ubx&refId=e6fc684b-34d7-4658-b9f0-336d5a34d741

#histodons #spatialhistory

I don't think Cameron is on Mastodon yet so I guess this is a manual RT for folk into teaching #SpatialHistory:

http://twitter.com/historying/status/1612094651531513858
Posting my #AHA23 slides with practical, low-tech ways to integrate geography, maps, and spatial narratives into history lesson plans: https://t.co/M55lucb2Ej

I don't think Cameron is on Mastodon yet so I guess this is a manual RT for folk into teaching #SpatialHistory:

http://twitter.com/historying/status/1612094651531513858
Posting my #AHA23 slides with practical, low-tech ways to integrate geography, maps, and spatial narratives into history lesson plans: https://t.co/M55lucb2Ej

Not that anyone was asking but if you always show up ridiculously early for flights (thanks dad) or have long delays it is 0.7km walk end to end inside gate area of Edinburgh airport and 1.15km from A23 corner to C61 corner of London Heathrow Terminal 5 via -4 level super tunnel (avoiding moving walkways but need to hit a few escalators and an elevator).

Oh, and if you want a fun book to reflect on during your walk laps try “Corridors: Passages of Modernity” by Roger Luckhurst #spatialhistory

Not that anyone was asking but if you always show up ridiculously early for flights (thanks dad) or have long delays it is 0.7km walk end to end inside gate area of Edinburgh airport and 1.15km from A23 corner to C61 corner of London Heathrow Terminal 5 via -4 level super tunnel (avoiding moving walkways but need to hit a few escalators and an elevator).

Oh, and if you want a fun book to reflect on during your walk laps try “Corridors: Passages of Modernity” by Roger Luckhurst #spatialhistory

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for history and work in other disciplines related to household appliances, or, separately, the kitchen as a space 19-20c? I have a few on my list but would love to learn more.

One example of a work that I especially liked was:

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (1985)

#histodons #spatialhistory

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for history and work in other disciplines related to household appliances, or, separately, the kitchen as a space 19-20c? I have a few on my list but would love to learn more.

One example of a work that I especially liked was:

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan (1985)

#histodons #spatialhistory

Been reading lots of fun work on history of coffeehouses, cabarets, alehouses and taverns of late, expanding some further reading materials offering contrasts and comparisons for spring teaching session on teahouses and social spaces in East and Southeast Asian history. This evening I started and been thoroughly enjoying

The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution
by Ian Newman (CUP 2019)

#spatialhistory

From its “What is a Tavern?” section:

Been reading lots of fun work on history of coffeehouses, cabarets, alehouses and taverns of late, expanding some further reading materials offering contrasts and comparisons for spring teaching session on teahouses and social spaces in East and Southeast Asian history. This evening I started and been thoroughly enjoying

The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution
by Ian Newman (CUP 2019)

#spatialhistory

From its “What is a Tavern?” section:

The Institute for Transnational & Spatial History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is delighted to join the #fediverse and Mastodon. Find us online at:

https://spatialhistory.net/

and see our #OpenAccess "A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research"
https://spatialhistory.net/guide/

and our recent Routledge volume

Doing Spatial History
https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Spatial-History/Bavaj-Lawson-Struck/p/book/9780367261566

You can see some of our events for this semester and over the past few years here, some of which we hold online:
spatialhistory.net/events/

#UnivStAndrewsHist #UnivStAndrews #histodons #SpatialHistory #TransnationalHistory

The Institute for Transnational & Spatial History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland is delighted to join the #fediverse and Mastodon. Find us online at:

https://spatialhistory.net/

and see our #OpenAccess "A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects, and Avenues of Research"
https://spatialhistory.net/guide/

and our recent Routledge volume

Doing Spatial History
https://www.routledge.com/Doing-Spatial-History/Bavaj-Lawson-Struck/p/book/9780367261566

You can see some of our events for this semester and over the past few years here, some of which we hold online:
spatialhistory.net/events/

#UnivStAndrewsHist #UnivStAndrews #histodons #SpatialHistory #TransnationalHistory

New self-intro (from new server) for #histodons and #Asianists. My work has explored the social history of modern Japan and its empire, particularly through a focus on transgression and marginality. I've moved increasingly into #SpatialHistory, as you can see in my last book Japan's Imperial Underworlds (2018). I'm currently working on maritime labor and infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific in the 1950s-60s, during the Cold War and Bandung eras.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/japan-s-imperial-underworlds-david-r-ambaras/12953220 1/2

Hey #histodons, Here are today’s arrivals from Interlibrary Loan, one for each of my main lines of inquiry:
1. Nihon Kōwan Kyōkai, Shinpan Nihon kōwan shi [History of Japanese ports] (2007) #MaritimeHistory #SpatialHistory
2. Wong, Li, and Chou, ed., Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific (2019) #DigitalHumanities

Today Monday 31 October, 1-3pm UK time, our Institute for Transnational & Spatial History has a talk by Prof. Katrina Navickas (author of "Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789-1848).

From the Local to the Global: Protest on the Commons and Verges in England, with a Case Study of the Greenham Common Protests

The event will be on Microsoft Teams. Register: https://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/register-for-an-itsh-event/

Other events this semester:
https://transnationalhistory.net/events/

#spatialhistory #history #onlinelectures

#introduction
Hiya, I'm a lecturer in modern history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland with a focus on East Asia. I'm from Stavanger, Norway
. I'm interested in #transnationalhistory, #spatialhistory, #japanesehistory #taiwanhistory, #koreanhistory #chinesehistory, the #digitalhumanities, #qgis, #gischat, as well as #openaccess, #digitization, and #digitalarchives. Hoping to find other #histodons.

I founded froginawell.net, host chinajapan.org and am co-director of spatialhistory.net