New Publication: The Cultural Identities of Berlin’s S- & U-Bahn around 1989 in Journal of Historical Geography.

September 10, 2015

A little over a year ago I presented a paper at the European Association of Urban History‘s conference in Lisbon and I am really excited to say that its outcome has just been published with open access in the Journal of Historical Geography (published online ahead of the October 2015 print issue). I have been … More New Publication: The Cultural Identities of Berlin’s S- & U-Bahn around 1989 in Journal of Historical Geography.

Instagram > Powerpoint? Some (mostly digital) reflections from #EAAGLA

September 7, 2015

I’ve just returned from a great few days in Glasgow for the annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (my thanks to all the organisers and participants!). It was my first archaeology conference in five years and it was great to note the continuing productive overlaps that the discipline, and in particular the sub-field … More Instagram > Powerpoint? Some (mostly digital) reflections from #EAAGLA

Walking Together and Walking Alone: The Recent Commemoration of 7/7 and Jean Charles de Menezes.

July 23, 2015

Just over two weeks ago London, and arguably the UK as a whole, marked the 10th anniversary of the July 7th 2005 London bombings that targeted the British capital’s transport infrastructure, claimed the lives of 52 people, injured many more and also involved the deaths of the 4 suicide bombers who carried out the attack. … More Walking Together and Walking Alone: The Recent Commemoration of 7/7 and Jean Charles de Menezes.

The Dead Come: The Transcultural Activ(ist) Remembrance of the Victims of Fortress Europe.

June 21, 2015

This evening I met up with an old friend in Kreuzberg and we decided to walk up to Schinkel’s Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars in Viktoriapark. From the top we discussed how the view might have looked at the time of the monument’s inauguration in 1821 and I told my friend about Neil … More The Dead Come: The Transcultural Activ(ist) Remembrance of the Victims of Fortress Europe.

Recalling the Cold War Dormancy of Berlin’s Networked Ghost-Stations 25 Years On

June 17, 2015

A few months ago I presented a paper at a conference on Empty Spaces at the Institute of Historical Research in which I framed one of London’s most famous disused Underground Stations, the Aldwych Station as a ‘networked ruin’ and, at least until recently, a ‘dormant place’. In doing so I built on Mattais Qviström’s … More Recalling the Cold War Dormancy of Berlin’s Networked Ghost-Stations 25 Years On