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Hidden Histories of Exploration (Royal Holloway/RGS-IBG, 2009), with Lowri Jones

‘Geography and vision: Denis Cosgrove, 1948-2008’, Environment and Planning A, 40 (2008) 1779-82.

‘John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c.1815-1830’, with L Martins, in T Barringer, G Quilley and G Fordham (eds) Art and the British Empire (Manchester University Press, 2007).
 
‘Global times and spaces: on historicizing the global’, History Workshop Journal, 64 (2007)

 ‘Shipwreck and salvage in the tropics: the case of HMS Thetis, 1830-1854’, with L Martins, Journal of Historical Geography, 32 (2006), 539-62.
 
‘Applicants for admission to a casual ward, by Luke Fildes, 1874’, Virtual Picture Gallery, July 2006, 1,400 words, http://picture-gallery.rhul.ac.uk/pictureGallery.htm
 
‘The active life: the explorer as biographical subject’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Oct 2005, 3,505 words, www.oxforddnb.com/themes/

'Hints to travellers: La Royal Geographical Society e la cultura dell'esplorazione', in M. Bossi & C. Greppi (eds), Viaggi e Scienza: Le istruzioni scientifiche per i viaggiatori nei secoli XVII-XIX (Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G. P. Vieusseux, Studi 13, Leo Olschki, 2005), 243-57 .

'Geographical knowledge, exploration and empire', in N Thrift and S Whatmore (eds), Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2004), vol. 1 (extract from Geography Militant), 132-52.

Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2005), co-edited with L Martins.

‘Distance & disturbance: travel, exploration and knowledge in the nineteenth century’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 14 (2004), 73-92.

'Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 52, 214-220.

Landing: Eight Collaborative Projects between Artists andGeographers (Royal Holloway, 2002), 64pp, with Catherine Nash, Kathy Prendergast and Ingrid Swenson.

Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire (Blackwell Publishers, 2001).

‘Constructing the tropics;, edited with Brenda Yeoh, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21 (2000), 1-98.

Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Manchester University Press, 1999), edited with David Gilbert.

'Imaginative geographies' in Introducing Human Geographies (Arnold, 1999), edited by Philip Crang, Paul Cloke and Mark Goodwin.

'Heart of empire? Landscape, space and performance in imperial London' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16 (1998) 11-28, with David Gilbert.

'Bodies in space: Foucault's account of disciplinary power' in Trevor Barnes and Derek Gregory, eds, Reading Human Geography: The Poetics and Politics of Inquiry, Arnold, 1997, 279-289.

'David Livingstone and the culture of exploration in mid-Victorian Britain' in John MacKenzie (ed) David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa (National Portrait Gallery,London, 1996) 109-138.

'Geographical education and citizenship', edited with Avril Maddrell, Journal of Historical Geography 22 (1996) 371-442.

'Rethinking the idea of place' (with Raphael Samuel), History Workshop Journal 39 (1995) v-vii.

'Visualising geography: A journey to the heart of the discipline' Progress in Human Geography 19 (1995) 123-134.

Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System, 1834-1884 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).