Historians in the Streets

In this new occasional feature History Workshop Journal will be publishing informal historical reflections in dialogue with or located in the physical environment of the past. 'Streets' is not to be taken too literally. Writing that deals with any built spaces or physical geography will be welcome, as long as the sense of space itself is at its heart. The first of our two inaugural essays is Philip Mosley's retrospective of Richard Cobb, situated in a Belgian stamping-ground of this pioneer of historical urban sensibility. In the second, Jeffrey Wasserstrom links St Louis (Missouri) and Shanghai in his reanimation of the life of a lesser-known figure, the American author Emily Hahn.