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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.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Introduction. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury

Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury

The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2020)
Journal Article
Hodder, J., Heffernan, M., & Legg, S. (2021). The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race. Journal of Historical Geography, 71, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.06.008

© 2020 The Authors This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentieth-century internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers. We show h... Read More about The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race.

'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display (2018)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M., & Thorpe, B. J. (2018). 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display. Journal of Historical Geography, 60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2017.11.010

This essay uses the personal archives of Clive Morrison-Bell (1871-1956), a campaigning Conservative politician who made extensive use of maps and cartographic models, to consider the entangled histories of cartography, economics and geopolitics in e... Read More about 'The map that would save Europe': Clive Morrison-Bell, the Tariff Walls Map, and the politics of cartographic display.

Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 (2015)
Journal Article
Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Heffernan, M. (2015). Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950. Political Geography, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.005

This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges a... Read More about Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950.

The interrogation of Sándor Radó: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War (2015)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M. (2015). The interrogation of Sándor Radó: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War. Journal of Historical Geography, 47, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2014.12.004

This essay uses recently released intelligence files to consider a pivotal episode in the long and eventful career of Alexander (Sándor) Radó (1899–1981), geographer, journalist and Soviet intelligence agent who lived and worked in various European c... Read More about The interrogation of Sándor Radó: geography, communism and espionage between World War Two and the Cold War.

Globalizing Cartography? The International Map of the World, The International Geographical Union, and the United Nations (2014)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M., & Pearson, A. (2014). Globalizing Cartography? The International Map of the World, The International Geographical Union, and the United Nations. Imago Mundi, 67(1), 58-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2015.974956

Few maps mirror the history of the twentieth century as closely as the International Map of the World (IMW). A proposal for a map of the entire globe on a scale of 1:1 million, using standard conventional signs, was presented at the Fifth Internation... Read More about Globalizing Cartography? The International Map of the World, The International Geographical Union, and the United Nations.

A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century (2014)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M., & Delano-Smith, C. (2014). A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century. Imago Mundi, 66(Supplement 1), 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2014.947850

This essay provides a critical commentary on the life of Leo Bagrow (1881–1957), the founding editor of Imago Mundi, drawing on previously unused correspondence from the journal’s archive, recently catalogued by the British Library in London. Bagrow’... Read More about A Life in Maps: Leo Bagrow, Imago Mundi, and the History of Cartography in the Early Twentieth Century.

Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France (2013)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M. (2014). Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(1), 62-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12008

This essay considers the politics and patronage of geography in early-modern France. It examines how the Paris Academy of Sciences, widely acknowledged as the 18th century's pre-eminent scientific society, came to recognise geography as an independen... Read More about Geography and the Paris Academy of Sciences: politics and patronage in early 18th-century France.

Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis (2011)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2011). Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis. In P. Meusburger, M. Heffernan, & E. Wunder (Eds.), Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View (287-303). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8945-8_16

The ambiguous phrase “violent memories” strikes at two of the key conceptual matters about which scholars of India have theorized: memories of violent acts and the violence that such recollections can do to those who remember them, those who are reme... Read More about Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis.