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HGRG NEWSLETTER ! AUTUMN 2010 Historical Geography Research Group Letter from the chair Dear Members, Welcome to the autumn edition of the HGRG newsletter. In this edition you will find the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held during the RGS-IBG annual conference in September. I would like to express my thanks to those who attended the AGM, which was unfortunately timetabled during the last session Map of Iceland of the conference. We were at least able to retire to the closing IN THIS ISSUE reception once the AGM had finished. At the AGM a number of committee members completed their ! Letter from the chair ! HGRG general information term of office and stepped aside. Firstly, may I thank Prof Jon ! Practicing Historical Stobart who has been Treasurer of HGRG for many years. Jon has Geography Conference gently but firmly steered the group into a more stable financial details position. I am very grateful to him for ensuring that the core ! RGS-IBG 2011 call for funding that HGRG provides to members has been secured. sessions ! Conference reports I’d like to thank Dr Diarmid Finnegan for ably managing the ! Conference announcements dissertation prize for the last five years. Diarmid will be ! Work in progress completing the judging for the 2010 competition with Prof Miles ! Thesis abstracts Ogborn and myself and we hope to announce the prize winner in the next newsletter. I am also grateful to Franklin Ginn for his COPY FOR NEXT ISSUE contribution as the Research Series Assistant Editor. Franklin has Date for new copy: now completed his PhD and therefore moves on from this role that is usually occupied by a postgraduate. I am delighted that January 5th 2011 Charlotte Jones from UCL will be stepping into his shoes. Please send to: There are a number of committee positions that we need to fill. [email protected] At the AGM Dr Carl Griffin from Queen’s Belfast was elected as the new Treasurer. As a result his position of E-list Coordinator has become available. We also need to find a new Dissertation Prize coordinator. If you are interested in playing a more active part in HGRG please let me know! The 16th Practicing Historical Geography Conference will be taking place at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday 3rd November. Please advertise the conference to your final year UG, masters and post-graduate students. It promises to be an excellent day and details are inside the newsletter. HGRG NEWSLETTER ! AUTUMN 2010 HGRG COMMITTEE HGRG was consulted earlier in the summer regarding our CONTACT DETAILS preferred choice of nominations for the Research Excellent 2009/2010 Contact List Framework panel. The committee put forward a list of names and hopes that historical geography will be strongly Dr Nicola Thomas Honorary represented on the final panel. Chair School of Geography University of All best wishes Exeter ,Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ England Tel: +44 (0) 1392 Nicola Thomas 264449 Email:[email protected]. Chair HGRG uk Dr Heidi Scott Honorary Secretary, Institute of Geography and Earth, HGRG General Information Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Journal of Historical Geography discount available for Ceredigion, SY23 3DB , Wales HGRG postgraduate students: E-mail: [email protected] Dr Carl Griffin Postgraduate students who are members of HGRG can receive the Honorary Treasurer 2009 subscription (Volume 35, 4 issues) of the Journal of Historical School of Geography, Archaelogy and Palaeoecology, Elmwood Geography at a discounted rate of £25. Building, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN To subscribe please contact our Customer Service Department Email: Carl.Griffi[email protected] [Email: [email protected] or Tel: +31 20 Dr David Nally 485 3757] and specify that you are postgraduate member of HGRG. Honorary Editor of the Research For more information about the Journal of Historical Geography Series, Department of Geography please visit the homepage [www.elsevier.com/locate/jhg]. University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, England E-mail: [email protected] Dr Lloyd Jenkins Honorary Membership Secretary School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)121 41 47262, Fax: +44 (0)121 41 45528 Email: [email protected] HGRG NEWSLETTER ! AUTUMN 2010 HGRG COMMITTEE Historical Geography Research Group Membership The HGRG is a very large (around 400 members) and active research group CONTACT DETAILS of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). The Group aims to initiate and foster research in the field of Dr Briony McDonagh Historical Geography; to promote discussion by means of meetings and Honorary Conference Officer conferences; to further co- operation between cognate disciplines and School of Geography, Clive organisations; and to effect publication of monographs, collected papers and Granger Building, University of discussion materials. Membership is open to all those who subscribe to Nottingham, Nottingham. these aims. The Group publishes three issues of its newsletter every year E-Mail: updating members on activities and the working of the Group. It also [email protected]. publishes the Research Series uk (38 issues published since 1979) which is designed to provide scholars with Dr Harriet Hawkins, Honorary an outlet for extended essays of an interpretative or conceptual nature that Honorary Newsletter Secretary, make a substantive contribution to some aspect of the subject; critical School of Geographical Sciences, reviews of the literature on a major problem; and commentaries on relevant University of Bristol, University sources. Road. Bristol BS8 1DD E-mail: [email protected] The HGRG differs from most other RGS-IBG Research Groups in that it charges a membership subscription for the additional services that it offers. Prof. Catherine Brace HGRG Web Editor Subscriptions are due on 1 October each year. We have different School of Geography University membership rates for Ordinary Members and Postgraduate Members of Exeter in Cornwall Tremough Campus, Treliever Road Penryn, The two categories of membership are: Cornwall, TR11 9EZ , E-mail: [email protected] CATEGORY A MEMBERSHIP Isla Forsyth, Receive HGRG research series and HGRG Newsletter, eligible for various Postgraduate Committee grants, reduced rate on back issues of HGRG research series. Member Department of Geography and Geomatics, £8.00 for Ordinary Members, £6.00 for Postgraduate Members University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ E-mail: CATEGORY B MEMBERSHIP: [email protected] Receive HGRG Newsletter, eligible for various grants, reduced rate on back Lois Jones, issues of HGRG research series. Postgraduate Committee Members with responsibility for £2.00 for Ordinary Members, free for Postgraduate Members Conferences School of Geography & For further details of how to join the HGRG, please e-mail: Geosciences, Irvine Building [email protected] University of St Andrews, North Street, St Andrews, FIFE, KY16 HGRG are keen to provide a forum for disseminating abstracts of recently 9AL E-mail: [email protected] completed doctoral theses in historical geography. Abstracts of around 250 words should be sent to [email protected] HGRG NEWSLETTER! 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AUTUMN 2010 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH GROUP Agenda of the Annual General Meeting August, RGS/IBG Annual Conference, 2010 1. Apologies for absence David Nally, Lois Jones, Keith Lilley, Diarmid Finnegan, Carl Griffin, Heidi Scott, Isla Forsyth, Franklin Ginn, Lloyd Jenkins. Members attending Anne-Flore Laloe, Susan Seymour, Charlotte Jones, Dean Bond, Valerie Vichoff, Mary Beth Kitzel, Stephanie Wyse, David Wood, David Lambert, Felix Driver, Kate Brace, Harriet Hawkins, Nicola Thomas 2. Minutes of last meeting The minutes of the last meeting were accepted. 3. Matters arising not on the agenda Felix Driver encouraged all members of HGRG to consider becoming members of the AHRC Peer Review College. David Lambert asked about the possible alliance with the AAG Historical Geography Speciality Group. This was mentioned at the AAG annual conference in Washington DC in April 2010 but has not been pursued and nothing further has been heard from HGSG. 4. Chair’s Business Report on activities Nicola Thomas (Chair) reported that the 15th Practising Historical Geography Postgraduate Conference at Royal Holloway in October, attended by 35 students and supported by staff from RHUL. The day was organised by Heidi Scott and Briony McDonagh with support from Isla Forsyth, David Gilbert and the Department