Outputs (8)

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)
Journal Article
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.