Focus and Scope

The annual Studia Geohistorica is directed towards representatives of the humanities and social sciences as well as geographical disciplines who conduct their research according to the spatial and historical approach. It is not a question of specifying and narrowing the research fields and methods, but of creating the platform to exchange the experiences and findings of the research – the pages of our journal host different and complementary approaches in terms of the subject, workshop and method. In this context, historical geography ceased to be a discipline, subdiscipline or auxiliary science for history or geography. It is more like a method and a research paradigm corresponding to the spatial turn in contemporary social sciences and the humanities.

Besides texts in historical geography, historical cartography, history of cartography, history of geography and the geographical horizon, the journal will collect papers presenting human geography, cultural geography and archaeology problems. A discussion concerning the methodology of up-to-date and new research and the issues relating to applying geographical information systems and spatio-temporal databases (historical GIS) will occupy a no less important place. Studia Geohistorica will register and describe the Polish scientific achievements in that field and research findings of European and world projects included within the branch called ‘spatial humanities’.