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Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2025). Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction. Journal of Historical Geography, 87, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.09.005

This paper introduces a virtual special issue that explores how monuments have been contested in the past and how they continue to be so in the present. A survey of papers published in this journal from the 1990s to the early-2000s demonstrates an on... Read More about Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction.

Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities (2024)
Journal Article
Dishington, R. (in press). Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities. Geography Compass,

Drawing on established scholarship in the historical geography of science, the history of technology, and science and technology studies, this paper argues for the significance of an historical geography of engineering. Large-scale and transformative... Read More about Historical geographies of engineering: knowledges, practices, identities.

Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries (2024)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Smallman-Raynor, M. (2024). Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries. Geography Review, 38(1),

Countries experience a transition in the major causes of illness and death as they develop economically. This article considers some frameworks for exploring these transitions, with a particular focus on recent rapid transitions in some countries of... Read More about Models of health transition: Changing health in low- and middle-income countries.

Mapping, geography (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). Mapping, geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12707

This Themed Intervention consists of short papers written by nine plenary speakers at the 2024 Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers plus a paper by the Society's Cartographic Collections Manage... Read More about Mapping, geography.

How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 154-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.05.007

In this 'Historical Geography at Large' review I recount my participation in an August 2023 summer school led by Professor Alan Lester at the University of Sussex, entitled 'How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war'. The w... Read More about How to talk about British colonialism in the middle of a culture war.

Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference (2024)
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Legg, S. (2024). Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference. Urban History, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926824000439

This survey reflects on the intersections of global and urban history through brief reflections on the Round Table Conference which took place over three sessions in London between 1930 and 1932. Uniting Indian representatives and the British governm... Read More about Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference.

The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s (2024)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M. (2024). The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0073

This essay considers an early eighteenth-century quarrel about the geographical dimensions of Paris and London. The dispute involved representatives of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society in London. The three participants—... Read More about The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s.

Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London (2024)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2024). Who were the Early Globalisers? The Historical Geographies of India in Interwar London. Geography Review Magazine, 37(4), 37-39

This article explores globalisation’s historical geographies, using the example of visiting Indians in 1930s London to decolonise our presumptions about who helped craft the globe.

Colonial governmentality appraised, from the Danish West Indies: Kristoffer Christiansen, Governing Black and White: A History of Governmentality in Denmark and the Danish West Indies, 1770–1900 (2023)
Journal Article
LEGG, S. (2023). Colonial governmentality appraised, from the Danish West Indies: Kristoffer Christiansen, Governing Black and White: A History of Governmentality in Denmark and the Danish West Indies, 1770–1900. Historisk Tidsskrift, 143(4), 647-654

Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home (2023)
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Legg, S. (2023). Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(6), 960–977. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231174453

This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience, mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial Delhi. The capital’s “Rescue Home” was created to house women and girls removed from the c... Read More about Carceral and colonial domesticities: Subaltern case geographies of a Delhi rescue home.

Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). (2023)
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Legg, S. (2023). Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 44(2), 375-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12489

In this exceptional piece of historical scholarship, Rotem Geva walks the reader through a harrowing Indian landscape. The five substantive chapters take us from the dreams about, and campaigns for, independence in India’s colonial capital, to the vi... Read More about Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital. Rotem Geva. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, USA, 2022, pp xiii + 349. ISBN 978-1-503-63211-0 (pbk)..

Communal Geographies: An Introduction (2023)
Journal Article
Gupta, C., & Legg, S. (2023). Communal Geographies: An Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 46(6), 1168-1183. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2303215

This paper introduces a special section comprising eight papers that delve into complex geographies of communal identities in modern South Asia. It situates these papers at a significant intersection of spatial histories and historical geographies of... Read More about Communal Geographies: An Introduction.

Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London (2023)
Book
Legg, S. (2023). Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009215329

Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences of the 1950s–60s, the Round Table Conference la... Read More about Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London.

“In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens (2022)
Journal Article
Tandarić, N., Watkins, C., & Ives, C. D. (2022). “In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 77, Article 127736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127736

While cultural ecosystem services (CES) provided by collective urban gardens have been researched for more than a decade, how knowledge of CES can inform the governance of gardens and enhance gardeners’ wellbeing remains a challenge. Retired adults a... Read More about “In the garden, I make up for what I can’t in the park”: Reconnecting retired adults with nature through cultural ecosystem services from urban gardens.

The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters (2022)
Journal Article
Martin, P. R. (2022). The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters. Cartographica, 57(3), 239-255. https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2021-0012

This article examines a cartographic encounter that took place in 1850 between Kallihirua, a member of Inughuit community of Northern Greenland, and members of the British Admiralty. Drawing on recent literatures that critically assess histories of i... Read More about The Cartography of Kallihirua?: Reassessing Indigenous Mapmaking and Arctic Encounters.

Tracking the spread of Covid-19 (2022)
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Smallman-Raynor, M., & Jewitt, S. (2022). Tracking the spread of Covid-19. Geography Review Magazine, 36(1), 26-30

Communicable diseases are capitalising on our highly connected world to spread as global pandemics. COVID-19 is the most recent example. This article tracks the early stages of the global diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic, and assesses its rate of s... Read More about Tracking the spread of Covid-19.

From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services (2022)
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Tandarić, N., Ives, C. D., & Watkins, C. (2022). From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services. Land Use Policy, 120, Article 106309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106309

The paper examines the links between the cultural ecosystem services concept, political ideologies and urban planning. In particular, it investigates the extent to which cultural ecosystem services were considered in urban planning in socialist and p... Read More about From city in the park to “greenery in plant pots”: The influence of socialist and post-socialist planning on opportunities for cultural ecosystem services.

Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020-December 2021 (2022)
Journal Article
Smallman-Raynor, M. R., & Cliff, A. D. (2022). Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020-December 2021. Epidemiology and Infection, 150, Article e145. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268822001285

This paper uses a robust method of spatial epidemiological analysis to assess the spatial growth rate of multiple lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in the local authority areas of England, September 2020-December 2021. Using the genomic surveillance records of... Read More about Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020-December 2021.

A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics (2022)
Book
Smallman-Raynor, M., Cliff, A., Ord, K., & Haggett, P. (2022). A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics. (2nd). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical history. The 1970s saw euphoria about the defeat of one of humankind’s oldest disease scourges with the global eradication of smallpox. To set against this, the 2020s are experiencing... Read More about A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics.

Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020–December 2021 (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Smallman-Raynor, M., & Cliff, A. D. Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020–December 2021

This paper uses a robust method of spatial epidemiological analysis to assess the spatial growth rate of multiple lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in the local authority areas of England, September 2020-December 2021. Using the genomic surveillance records of... Read More about Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020–December 2021.