Call for applications - The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography Awards range up to £2000. The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER.  Apply here:  www.maphistory.info/harley.html Please forward to others who might be interested.

This year’s Harley Fellowships are open! Have a map history project that requires work in UK archives? Pitch it for funding (up to £2000)! Deadline is 1 November www.maphistory.info/application.... #maps #maphistory #Skystorians 🗃️

Time for another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @debbietheduck.bsky.social on C19 #European #post roads, with an intriguing publishing backstory. Learn more about the "disappearing engraver" at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social @maproomblog.com @mapsmania.bsky.social

Delighted to speak today in #Goring-on-Thames on the #medieval #GoughMap of #Britain. Thanks to #GoringGapLocalHistorySoc for hosting. A great audience. @leverhulme.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk www.digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Action from the @historictownstrust.bsky.social stand from @oxfordprestrust.bsky.social Open Doors today at Old County Hall in #Oxford. HTT will be back tomorrow, so if you are keen on British urban history and #maps, do come and visit. www.historictownstrust.uk @profkdlilley.bsky.social

Looking forward to a 🌏 day with experts Michael Day, Sylvia Sumira, and Renae Satterley discussing the Molyneux globes @middletemple.bsky.social. #globes #maps #studyday Sign up for the 11 Oct event here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/mid... 🗃️

Time for another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog by @stuartackland.bsky.social, exploring the career of Dutch polymath Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611). Itineraries, the mapping of what became #Indonesia, and even espionage feature prominently. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social

@livingmaps.bsky.social Tickets are now on sale at the British Library for "Secret Mapping: Mapping Secrecy" Professor Jerry Brotton will host an afternoon dedicated to maps and their secrets!! events.bl.uk/events/onlin...

Did anyone notice this strange weather map in the #Observer a couple of weeks ago? What has happened to the Dutch-German border? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @stuartackland.bsky.social

Just visited the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social @radiohead.wastehq.social 'This is what you get' exhibit. Great to see art inspired by the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #TalkingMaps show. al-Idrīsī, Sheldon #tapestries perhaps? @jerrybrotton.bsky.social @bcsmaps.bsky.social Congrats all round!

Wonderful event on 30 Oct in London: "Challenging maps and exploration symposium" @rgsibg.bsky.social @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social & co-organised w/ the amazing Sunderland Collection (oculi-mundi.com). www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #maps #histsci #skystorians

Great to see this 😍 lots of lovely new graphics exploring the field encounters of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland two hundred years ago, using #digitalhumanities tools and #geospatial visualisations 👇

Planes, trains and automobiles Soviet-style! Happy holiday makers on their way to Georgia for some Black Sea sun and fun in this 1987 map from Tbilisi. two bathing beauties are being admired by two old men, who, according to their signs are a remarkable 120 and 150 years old, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, intently studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..." -Bill Bryson Pictured: Europe in 1912, from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap Explore at www.refugeemap.org/map/over...

Is that duelling banjos I can hear? Anyone else reminded of Deliverance after looking at this cover of a road map of Illinois, 1974,, two years after the film came out? @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Yes! That's a whole lot better. Much appreciated ‪@oxfordshirecc.bsky.social @emilykerr36.bsky.social

Looks like the work has finally been done. Happy days!

Spent the evening at Bradford City Hall for the launch of the @historictownstrust.bsky.social map of Bradford, with a series of fascinating talks in conjunction with the Bradford Literature Festival. Get your copy of this beautifully crafted map here: www.historictownstrust.uk/maps-nop/an-...

The Coventry atlas has as a map layer the @historictownstrust.bsky.social historical map of Coventry which includes the locations of the city's medieval urban features, some long gone, others still surviving 👇

Look out for @debbietheduck.bsky.social from @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social speaking in the Culture Tent at today's #VCharlburyBeerFestival. charlburybeerfestival.org . Not to be missed!

Time for another @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social who takes us to the early C17 #LowCountries using #allegory in the form of a #lion to celebrate a 12-year period of peace. More about this Leo Belgicus here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social

Come to @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social on 1 July for a fascinating talk on the creation of our Historical Map of Bradford. We'll share incredible stories discovered during our research, blending history, technology and cartography. Grab your tickets now! bradfordlitfest.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

According to the legend surrounding this map of Colchester under siege OTD 1648 during 2nd English Civil War 'Friday 16. Nothing of importance happened, but 3 of Capt. Canons men killed with a canon bullet'. The siege ended with Royalist surrender on the 28 Aug. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

OTD 1667 Dutch ships sailed up the Medway and attacked naval ships, destroying several and towing the Royal Oak back to the Netherlands. This sketch map comes from a report sent to Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy, by his friend and fellow diarist John Evelyn. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Now showing in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Weston Library, 'Tamesis Unweaving' by the brilliant @anyagleizer.bsky.social. Check out the robe and the film, and can you find Oxford?

Landings at Aboukir, 8th March 1801, in this faint manuscript map of the what is now called the Battle of Abukir, part of British attempts to free Egypt of Napoleon and the French. South at top, Alexandria just off map. Second image shows action at Rhamanie 9th May @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

📢 In association with the University of Chester, we're delighted to announce the publication of our historical map of Chester which charts the city's development from Roman fortress to mercantile centre and cathedral city. Get your copy now! shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/hist...

Such a lovely map of a fascinating city

🦙📚 Alpacas in the library - coming Friday! 📚🦙 In the name of reducing exam stress, we will be hosting alpacas on the Radcliffe Camera lawn on Friday 23 May 1-4pm. Open to all members of the University with access by University/College/Library card.

1751 map of Oxford: #maps #oxford #history.

Interested in travel writing? Want to learn more about editing historical travel writing? Come to the FREE Hakluyt Society editorial workshop!! 4 July, 9:30-18:00, Royal Asiatic Society, London FREE but must register: #travelwriting #travel #skystorians 🗃️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...

The Charlbury Beer Festival is one of the largest independent one-day beer festivals in the country. Organisers expect to attract up to 3,000 people for what they say is a family friendly day out, with music, food, activities and an 'unrivalled' selection of sixty real ales from around the country.

The 13th World Aunt Sally Singles Championship will take place on 28th June during the annual Charlbury Beer Festival. Players will compete for a first prize of £100. Triple World Champion Roger Goodall will defend his title. charlburybeerfestival.org/aunt-sally.

As promised/threatened! Thanks to @witnwis.bsky.social for the tip-off. This time, #Tynemouth station for a brilliant #railway #map, now on the #TyneWearMetro network. A great backdrop for the Sunday market.

Getting very excited at @newcastleuni.bsky.social #FarrellCentre & the #ConcreteDreams exhibition. Look at this #Newcastle town model. @mapsmania.bsky.social

According to Google, The Ned is the nearest mountain to Blenheim. Alas not Oxfordshire's. Very tasty wine though! And a decent #map too. @stuartackland.bsky.social @mapsmania.bsky.social

📢 We're delighted to announce the publication of our multi-layered historical map of Ipswich, which charts the development of England's (possibly) oldest settlement going all the way back to the 8th century. Get your copy now from the Trust Shop! shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/hist...

When in #Morpeth, here's an essential task. Go to the station and view this #map on the Newcastle-bound platform. You won't be disappointed! @northernrail.bsky.social

#MappyMonday! Take a trip through #Coventry in 1914 at www.coventryatlas.org/map/o... From #CoventryAtlas #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps #MapMonday

It's Earth Day, here's 2 images of our planet explaining eclipses from John Speed's Prospect of the World, 1627, with the Earth revolving around the Sun according to the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus, from Andreas Cellarius's Atlas of the Heavens, 1660. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

The loss of one of our greatest map historians, very sorry to hear this news. Paul Dean Adshead Harvey died peacefully after a short illness on 11 April 2025 at the age of 94 at Bowburn Care Home, County Durham.

The intro and two of the discussion pieces of the Forum are available #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s here! Issue 76.2 of #ImagoMundi in print at last! Especially exited about the Forum on machine reading of maps—a great chance to learn the latest on the topic! #maphist

We've been getting this award for a few years now, so probably about time we stopped being so modest & shared it! #belgianbeercafe #belgianbeers #worcestershirehour #belgianbeer #beerstagram #instabeers #craftbeer #beernerd #beeraday #craftbeerlife #restaurantguru #foodporn #belgianfood #foodie

Come and see us! 🏛 Discover what it’s like to study Geography at Oxford and join us at our upcoming open day on 16th June 2025. Register now: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/study/underg... We look forward to seeing you there!

Another @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #Maps blog from @debbietheduck.bsky.social explores C18 jigsaws. Test your knowledge of pre-1974 English & Welsh county boundaries. Largest & smallest counties? Who was Mme Beaumont? Find the answers here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social

A variation, 'Saw this missing from a map'. Map colleague Debbie has just written a lovely blog post about Jigsaw maps, blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2025/04... Unfortunately, but not unique for jigsaws, there's a piece missing from one! Jigsaws from circa 1785 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

This is a profile of what American troops faced landing in front of Vierville-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. From a 'Bigot-top secret' Beach Exit plan. What it doesn't show are the German defences, shown in purple on this Omaha Area beach map. Think 'Saving Private Ryan'. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

I went to Ghent last week. Instantly my favourite city, ever. Spent most* of the day just walking around the quiet back streets and the canalsides. So many bikes! * also spent some of the day at Bar à l’Aise with a glass of Kwaremont watching the cyclists going by baralaise.be

👋 Welcome to the School of #Geography & the Environment @ox.ac.uk! We’re a world-leading department tackling global challenges through research and teaching. Follow us + @ecioxford.bsky.social @tsuoxford.bsky.social @oxfordsmithschool.bsky.social for updates from our SoGE community. 🌍