Our very own Professor Stefan Brink presenting 'Early Maritime Culture and Inland Routes in Sweden' @thinkuhi.bsky.social 7th International St Magnus Conference @uhiperth.bsky.social

Very decent of the Romans to build a road leading from the garage where my car gets serviced to within a few hundred yards of my house. #historyonyourdoorstep #WelshHistory #LoveWhereYouLive

The remains of the foundations of Piercebridge Roman Bridge in County Durham that once carried Dere Street (the Roman road that linked York with Corbridge) across the River Tees. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Piercebridge

Journée d’étude – Comment quantifier les mobilités de personnes au Moyen Âge ? rmblf.be/2026/04/06/j...

You're in luck, because I wrote about roads back in 2023 (I also discuss older royal road systems)! acoup.blog/2023/06/02/c...

My first presentation on Computing Place and its Environmental Dimensions of Place signature service (EDOPS) is to the @pelagios.bsky.social Place Working Group meeting, 6 April, 14:00 UTC. Easy signup to attend: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@viabundus auf der #fossgis2026 ich freu mich

The workshop "Vormoderne Mobilität in Zeit und Raum abbilden", organised by @laurysarti.bsky.social in Bonn, showed a lot of open challenges in historical research as well as methodology in tackling questions of mobility. Four Viabundi were invited to contribute.

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 15 new and 41 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 10 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #SneakPeek at an […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication. Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846... ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...

I enjoyed the reminder by @brilliantmaps how exciting the age of railways actually must’ve been. From 1837-1875 the network in France just exploded. Imagine seeing the world open up to you so rapidly after being relatively stuck in your region for so long. Source: buff.ly/RgyNhfd

#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*

„Im 1234. Jahr n. Chr. gab es eine solch grausame Kälte, dass man von Venedig bis nach Cremona auf dem mächtigen Fluss Po mit beladenen Wagen fuhr. Der Wein gefror in den Fässern“ Wunderzeichenbuch, Augsburg, um 1550.

Breslau, 11. Feb 1626 Freitags ist des Bethlens Braut [1] allhie über Nacht geblieben / die hat 40 Wägen / jeden mit 6 Pferden bei sich - Bürgerschaft mit 200 Pferden, Landobrist von Dohna und viele Adelige ihr entgegen geritten. aus: brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/zeitungen17/...

Time to open up the first ice roads! www.smhi.se/vader/vader-...

2. Maantie. Maantie ei tarkoita maalla olevaa tietä, vaan on jo keskiaikaisten maan(👈!)lakien tieluokka. Maantie (r. Landsväg) oli koko maakunnan (r. Land, lat. Terra) verotalonpoikien yhteisesti ylläpitämä tie, maa/ linnavoutikuntien välinen tie. Hämeensilta oli keskiajalla yleisen maantien silta.

The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Nach einem sehr bereichernden Workshop zur vormodernen Mobilität in Osnabrück im letzten Juni wollen Christoph Mauntel und ich das Format dieses Jahr in Kiel fortsetzen. Der CFP findet sich hier: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve.... Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge und sind dankbar fürs Teilen. 🤗

Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.

Publication – « Routes d’Orient et d’Occident », éd. Benhima Yassir, Gilotte Sophie, Rousset Marie-Odile (Médiévales, 89) rmblf.be/2026/01/02/p...

This is a useful website to quickly view different map projections. Useful when you want to map a specific region and aren't sure what projection to use. Also, it's just good fun to play with: buff.ly/36nJtxQ

Oops, left out the url to my web site that explains me more fully...https://kgeographer.org

Driving home for #Christmas 🎄 #medievalsky #medievaladvent The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.705, f. 33r

Holidays! 🥳🥳🥳

Kysely historiallisista teistä on käynnissä. Väitöskirjatutkija Katrina Virtanen @utu.fi kerää tämän päivän kokemuksia ja muistoja arkisesta kulkemisesta ja suunnitellusta matkanteosta Suomen vanhoilla teillä. Yhteistyössä @viabundus.bsky.social & Postimuseo. Lisätietoa: sites.utu.fi/humanisticgi...

🚨 Very excited that our paper on *Rulers on the Road* has been cond. accepted at the AJPS @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We analyze emperors' strategies of itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire 919-1519. Fun working with @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/Spm7z

Shoutout to our dear colleague Dr. Mikola Volkau for his new NAWA funded project "The route to Europe: urbanization and roads in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 16th to the middle of the 17th century" at the Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences 2025-2027.

The DIGARV book is now OA! Lots of useful & interesting digital humanities stuff in there. Chapter 9 is about/by the Mapping Lived Religion project team. Check it out! www.vitterhetsakademien.se/nyheter/nyhe...

Visbundus Suomi -projektin väitöskirjatutkija Katrina Virtasen tuore projektiesittely Positio-lehdessä. Katrina kerää materiaalia historiallisista teistä kokemuksena, linkki kyselyyn artikkelissa. Eikun vastaamaan! @viabundus.bsky.social #VuabundusSuomi

Tell your boss that I gave you the rest of the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org

To GLAM colleagues: Do you use the GETTY VOCABULARIES? We seek feedback to improve these important resources. Please answer this survey and share it in your circles! It is anonymous although email is collected for context. 10-30 mins to complete. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ride on, little woodblock printed postal messenger being used on all title pages of every new issue of a certain #earlymodern German newspaper. Ride on. Enjoy yourself.

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Our article, co-authored with Matteo Rossi, “Modelling Economic and Human Mobility in the Landscapes of Monti Lucretili, Lazio, Italy: a Microregional Approach over the Longue Durée” has just been published in Acta Archaeologica @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1163/1600...

Congratulations on your excellent new home, @rdjhss.bsky.social ! The future of scientific publishing should be oa and publicly funded. We're proud to have contributed to the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences: researchdatajournal.org/article/view...

🔔 Newsflash! 📅 As of today Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences has transferred to @openjournalsnl.bsky.social, a platform specifically for diamond open access publishing.

Media reports are often overly simplified, obviously. Our friends at itiner-e were more cautious in their publications, though. For scientific discourse, it is a great proof of methodology. Feedback on details are certainly welcome and will be integrated in v. 2.0, for sure.

Cet article sur les voies de l'empire romain fait le buzz, mais en faire un "high resolution dataset" est bien imprudent... pour un petit coin de Bourgogne, routes royales et nationales du 18e ou 20e s. coexistent avec des tracés hypothétiques au mieux. 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Cool: a medieval 14th c. wooden road was discovered in Antwerp. Photo: Stad Antwerpen

The methodology is here (where they're quite a bit more modest about what they've done than the accompanying media coverage would suggest):

Well this is fab - Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads: the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Hasn't quite reached Scotland yet (plenty of Roman roads up here yet to be added), but fun to explore! itiner-e.org

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4qMYGRw

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Shoutout to our friends from itiner-e.org Great work, as always!

Interesting proof of concept in using GIS to predict most probable routes. Not unlike what @jwhpverhagen.bsky.social and team did in the Limits of the Limes project.

In mediaeval times, maps were made by laying a very big piece of paper over the town, and rubbing the surface with a crayon.

Huh, the Blood! Legend has it, that in the 1380s, three bleeding hosts were discovered in Wilsnack in Brandenburg, which quickly became one of Northern Europe's most famous pilgrim’s destinations. The little village built an oversized church, which even today impresses by its sheer size. (1/3)

Huh, the Blood! Legend has it, that in the 1380s, three bleeding hosts were discovered in Wilsnack in Brandenburg, which quickly became one of Northern Europe's most famous pilgrim’s destinations. The little village built an oversized church, which even today impresses by its sheer size. (1/3)