Paul Griffin is an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Northumbria University. He teaches 'historical geographies: hidden histories and usable pasts' at Northumbria. His research has considered the spatial politics of labour organising and more recently the histories of community responses to unemployment. This research has utilised both archival and oral history research methods. His work can be found in journals such as Antipode, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Progress in Human Geography.

Cheryl McGeachan is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. She specialises in the historical geographies of mental ill-health, including exploration of issues of crime, conflict, and incarceration. She has written extensively on doing historical geography, particularly through participatory and fragmentary perspectives. She teaches Historical Geographies of Care, Conflict and Confinement at the University of Glasgow and has supervised several historical geography PhD students. Her work can be found in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Journal of Historical Geography,and Area.

1. Why historical geography? 2. Sparking curiosity 3. Archives and practising historical geography 4. Historical geography and the vibrancy of theory 5. Working with historical materials 6. Writing historical geographies 7. Future imaginings in historical geography Index