Charlotte Collins pens a paean to the late David Bowie, whose Berlin residency between 1976-1979 left an everlasting legacy on the city’s cultural fabric. This article is intended for audio accompaniment – found here. Cold War isolation saw an inward-facing Berlin create a creative hotbed for disaffected creatives and musicians – underlain by youth rebellion. Most…
Category: History
Great Expectations 2.0
In Great Expectations 2.0, Inez Bartram Vilar reflects upon the first ever article published in The Bloomsbury Geographer. This retrospective response seeks to re-evaluate the initial aims of the Bloomsbury Geography and prospects for the future of the geographical discipline, outlined in an article by Paul Wheatley in 1968. Delving deep into archive – which…
The relaunched Bloomsbury Geographer: the first editors
The first three editors of the Bloomsbury Geographer blog were Jessica Howard-Johnston, Marko Ristić-Smith, and Katharine Sherratt. Although the first discussions about relaunching the journal began in the spring of 2015, not all that long before their final exams, the editors did an excellent job of designing the blog, the associated facebook page, and the…
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