Stunning autumn day teaching about Palladian and English Baroque #architecture at Queen’s House & Old Royal Naval College. Students currently on a scavenger hunt for tympanums, lanterns, and more. 🍂 🍁 🧱🏛️ #amteaching 🗃️

Great fun recording a podcast today that discusses cartographic collecting (of the same atlases) in the #c16 and #c19. #maps 🌎🗺️🗃️

Made it to “From streets to the stars: 500 years of maps” at the beautiful Maughan Library @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social . Great to see maps in books get their due, especially Dampier, Anson, and other Pacific volumes. It’s open until 28 September! #maps 🗃️

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can. Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone. #skystorians #midievalsky #historians

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

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 🗃️

First site visit covers 1600 years of London #architecture from the Roman Wall, the Tower of London, All Hallows Barking, London Bridge, Southwark Cathedral, the Golden Hinde, to the Globe Theatre (phew!). There was ☀️ and 🌧️ and good discussion of fortification, religion, and replicas. #amteaching

That start of school feeling never goes away! Buzzing to start this semester of Seeing London’s Architecture at NYU London. #amteaching #history #architecture

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... 🗃️

Walked the #tuskturtletrail and our fav was Turtle London by Adam Dant. Packed full of local (turtle) history and structured as a #map! (Don’t mind tiny research assistant photo bombing) #artandhistory

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

Book your place for the FREE symposium, Challenging Maps & Exploration, @rgsibg.bsky.social 30 Oct! Sponsored by The Sunderland Collection, the event is hybrid & features experts talking about #maps and 'exploration (historic & contemporary), Indigeneity, empire, & more. #skystorians 🗃️

Glad to chat with Wiley about #maps, the social construction of The Explorer, and our @rgsibg.bsky.social #collections. #skystorians 🗃️ l.uk-1.a.mimecastprotect.com/l?domain=wil...

The #CFP is open for #ichc2026! Working on the history of #maps and #mapping? Submit a paper and join the community in Prague next summer!! ichc2026.org/wp-content/u...

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

Nothing like the iconic @britishlibrary.bsky.social door!

Some good dodo content today @hakluytsociety.bsky.social Editorial Workshop hosted by @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social . Also excellent papers and discussions of how to edit, read, and share travel writing. #skystorians 🗃️

Who is a traveller? What is travel? What is travel writing? Siobhan Lambert-Hurley offers interventions on how we think of the travel writing canon with examples of Muslim women travellers and with regard to local literary contexts. Keynote of @hakluytsociety.bsky.social editorial workshop. 🗃️

Had the pleasure of teaching ‘A History of Maps and Mapping’ @ies-sas.bsky.social #LondonRareBooksSchool two weeks ago. Students read theory, drew their own maps, learned about charts, globes, and more. 🌏 🗃️

Thanks to Maria Pia Aquilina for showing me the beautiful museum of the Notarial Archive Foundation in Valletta. They had the first surviving example of written Maltese and much more (and a pretty compass rose in their courtyard)

In 2022, the AHA launched the most comprehensive study of the national US history teaching landscape undertaken in the 21st century. We wanted to know what is actually happening in public school classrooms across the country. Find out what we learned. 🗃️

Don’t miss this FREE workshop full of experts on editing historical travel writing. How can we decolonise travel history? How do you work with these sources? Answer these questions and more—but register for in-person by this Friday!!

What a great Queer History Tour led by Grace @londonmuseum.bsky.social ! Learned about many queer lives and loved the succinct summaries of queer history theory and methodology. #skystorians #pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️

Attention all #earlymodern #skystorians! The Hakluyt Society is now on BSky. Follow for all things relating to the History of Travel and Exploration @hakluytsociety.bsky.social

Happily hunkered down to listen to Zoltan Biedermann ( @ucl.ac.uk ) discuss Indigenous voices in exploration literature. He’s this year’s @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual lecturer. #skystorians 🗃️

Highlight of the History of Map Collecting conference was a visit to the library of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Stunning ceiling, 1734 Globes by Habrecht, 1675 Projection globe, quite recent #maphist #maps #vienna #skystorians 🗃️

Brilliant day talking map collectors, collections, and composite atlases @univie.ac.at yesterday! Learned a lot and shared about the @rgsibg.bsky.social collection, but my fav object was this ceramic Bilderhandler, ca. 1750. #maps #skystorians 🗃️

Spending an enjoyable day discussing instruments, history of science, museum practice, and teaching at this mighty, little conference @sciencemuseum.org.uk

It’s International Archives Week! The @rgsibg.bsky.social collections team are up to so many projects to make our space and objects accessible to all. Here is a new bulletin about our recent collaboration with Queer History Club. #ArchivesareAccessible www.rgs.org/about-us/our...

Amazing evening last night sharing @rgsibg.bsky.social collections with the Queer History Club, who usually meet at the National Maritime Museum. Such expertise, curiosity, and laughter filled the reading room-I learned so much! #skystorians 🗃️

Excited to be among the speakers for this upcoming conference @univie.ac.at! Will be ready to learn about collecting #maps and share ongoing research on our collection @rgsibg.bsky.social

New book just landed in the @rgsibg.bsky.social collections! Can’t wait to read the latest from amazing editor Karen Wigan. #maphistort #skystorians 🗃️

There is no better way to edit than with a dog donut snoring away on your hip. 🐶 🍩

Interested in #archives and #GIS? Come to @rgsibg.bsky.social for a FREE workshop, 'Unlock Archives with GIS' on 12 June. Lunch provided, booking essential via the link below. www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Greatly enjoyed reviewing 2 recent books by @kfullagar.bsky.social that question the inevitability of empire & showcase innovative biography. Check out the review in @jofhistgeog.bsky.social! #Pacifichistory #Indigenoushistory #skystorians 🗃️ kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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...

Excited to see the Society for Transpacific Studies has its website up, and with a #CFP for ‘The Spanish Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Conference’ to be held in Manila in June 2026. www.setstudies.org

Historian friends and colleagues! Please read, share and consider signing this letter from historians to UK MPs urging them to speak out in support of trans rights and avoid repeating mistakes that led to widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ people in the past. 🗃️

Lovely to receive the latest Hakluyt Society volume, Gaimard’s journal from the Freycinet voyage (1817-1820). Interested in editing a previously unpublished/untranslated (to English) work of travel writing? Check out the Hakluyt Society. We will have an editorial workshop 4 July-more info soon!

Rare Book School is thrilled to announce this summer’s lecture series at the University of Virginia. All talks are free and open to the public. For the first time, RBS also will offer an option to attend virtually via Zoom livestream. Details at rarebookschool.org/lectures.

Mildly amused that Adobe tells me my students’ essays are long documents and offers me a summary. Who among us hasn’t wished grading was faster, AI? But a summary is quite antithetical to the point in this case. #amteaching #amgrading

📢March Issue of TIBG📢 The latest issue of TIBG brings together a collection on 'Mapping' curated by @stephenlegg11.bsky.social ahead of the 2024 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. 12 of the 17 papers are #OpenAccess - read them here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661... #geosky

Have loved reading (listening to, actually) Tempest by James Davey, which tells the story of how the Royal Navy of the 1790s was shaped by the broader Age of Revolutions—a fascinating mix of cultural, political, & naval history. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Students enjoyed analysing how ‘London, sugar & slavery’ @londonmuseum.bsky.social is embedded in its locale, the Docklands. We then walked around to discuss empire, development, and gentrification in Canary Wharf. #amteaching #archhist

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

Tiny research assistant and I loved the #Pirates exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. There are maps galore (Hacke atlas!) and I love the integration of books as design. Research assistant liked the sonic elements. (1/2)

Oh hey! Lovely seeing my book in the shop of the National Maritime Museum, near those of friends Michael Barritt and @meganbar.bsky.social (among others). The book is not new but delighted to encounter it in the wild in the UK for the first time. #maphistory #seacharts

Taught in Soho last week, asking students to think about how community is created and commemorated with case studies of Queer Soho and London’s Chinatown. Loved their ideas and engagement with the cityscape. #amteaching #histarch #LondonChinatown #Soho

Register for the week-long course (16-20 June), ‘A History of Maps and Mapping’! Part of London Rare Books School, students will learn @rgsibg.bsky.social , @senatehouselib.bsky.social , and the National Maritime Museum. Registration closed 23 May. ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...