Globes for days! Have greatly enjoyed tagging along as the brilliant Sylvia Sumira has assessed our globes @rgsibg.bsky.social this week. #conservation #globes 🌏 📚🗃️

What happens when you put experts, prescient topics, engaged audiences, and #maps together? A Map Room Conversation! Our Area special section is now available #openaccess #geography #skystorians 🗃️

Absolute privilege to take students to see the #architecture of #southwarkcathedral last week. Passionate volunteers (thanks, Graham) and amazing history on display…no sighting of #hodge the cathedral cat, though #amteaching

Was a delight to welcome our mighty CDA cohort (our biggest group yet, 4 new students!) to @rgsibg.bsky.social this week. Learn more, including about their fascinating projects, here: #postgrads #cdastudents #phdlife #skystorians 🗃️

Finishing the week with a lunchtime lecture on #c18th trade in Asian goods between and through Central America by Ricardo Castellón. Great discussion of clever workarounds of Spanish laws and of multistage trade routes. Eating ramen and learning things. 🍜 📝 📚 #skystorians 🗃️

Brilliant talk from the brilliant Elizabeth Chant on the maps of petromodernity in mid-20th century Argentina @warburginstitute.bsky.social last night. Such a cool project! #skystorians 🗃️

Brilliant day chatting maps, surveying, and exploration with students on an @ihr.bsky.social short course. And learned about holdings of @ihrlibrary.bsky.social too! #libraries #maps 📚🗃️

Always proof read your work, kids, if only to catch that you are giving this talk in January, not June. #amwriting #proofread

Very pleasant day (and don’t we all need more of those!) with our new doctoral cohort and then a #BeInspired lecture on the early history of the @rgsibg.bsky.social from Deborah Ireland (recording will be free online to all via our website!) #skystorians #history #geography 🗃️

It's Penguin Awareness Day, although every day is a good one to revisit Icicle's adventure from the archival store to @nhm-london.bsky.social to the Director's office @rgsibg.bsky.social 🐧 #penguins #archives #libraries

Finally got stuck into #secretmaps @britishlibrary.bsky.social . I’m glad that they touched on issues of erasure, privacy, and countermapping. One fav object was this little Blaeu globe. #maps #exhibition 🗺️ 📚

The final article of the issue presents Yannan Ding's discovery of a manuscript map of Cochinchina (in modern Vietnam), which drastically revises our understanding of when French missionary activity first began in the region. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The second article is Luis A. Robles Macías's survey of the use of flags on nautical maps and portolan charts of the early modern Maghreb, showing how flags can be used to date, attribute, and assess the provenance of charts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The issue opens with Hayley Cotter's discussion of John Selden's cartographic contributions to the 'mare clausum' debate of the seventeenth century, and the role of metaphor in his thought on legal mapping. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Issue 77.2 of Imago Mundi is out! It contains articles on Early Modern Legal Cartography; Portolan Charts of the Maghreb; French Missionary Cartography in Vietnam; a Forum on the map history's future; and a reflection on the ending of Imago Mundi's Chronicle. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/7...

Thank you, past Katie, for pre-ordering this book! Can’t wait to listen! #books #skystorians 🗃️

If Mexico City is on your travel card for early 2026, this exhibition looks great! #Pacifichistory #museums #exhibition 🗃️

A new national park is coming together in Chile. It would create an unbroken 2,800-mile wildlife corridor and help to preserve Indigenous culture and history as well as a magnificent environment. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Tiny research assistant & I greatly enjoyed #storyexplorers @britishlibrary.bsky.social He loved seeing the animals in books (esp. Dodo!) & reading in the giant octopus book. I loved seeing the glorious collections items, including the Iceland sea monster map in Ortelius’ atlas 🦤 🐙 🐘 📚

Amazing use of drones to collect whales' blow to test for pathogens. Very sad to see what they're finding

Earlier this year, Natasha spoke on this subject in a Royal Historical Society lecture - 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World’ - the recording of which is available here bit.ly/3MjdpnS #Skystorians

Loved #thewordforworld exhibition, showcasing Ursula K Le Guin’s maps. An enchanting walk through new worlds as presented on fabric. Only up until 6 Dec, and it’s FREE, so run, don’t walk, to Architectural Association in Bedford Square #art #maps #books 📚

Great final class looking at the #history of London #architecture in 1 street: Walbrook. Saw secrets of St Stephen’s Walbrook, analyzed No 1 Poultry, & assessed the Mithraeum immersive experience. Retiring this lesson from next semester, so enjoyed one last go And now, grading 🗃️

This is such a sad story! An important collection that had been sent for digitisation (though why from Kent to Scotland, I'm not sure) 📜 www.bbc.com/news/article...

What better way to spend an afternoon than hearing about librarians and provenance from Richard Espley at the V&A? (did some cheeky Christmas shopping in the gift shop too!) #libraries #bookhistory

Deadline approaching for the ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History. In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!! Nominations due 31 Dec 2025. #maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️

Interested in old maps? My new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' Short Course will introduce the history of cartography, how to find and work with old maps online, and even how to georeference historical maps! We'll also get hands-on with map collections, plus lecture from @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social

“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?” this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️

Wish you could have come to the Revisiting Pacific exploration conference at the Estonian Maritime Museum? You can enjoy the public talk given by Richard Dunn (@sciencemuseum.org.uk) on how navigation at sea did/didn't change after longitude was 'solved' #skystorians #histsci 🗃️

'The work means the Courtauld’s teaching spaces, currently situated in King’s Cross, north London, will move to the same site as its gallery, creating what the institution is calling “a flexible, state-of-the-art campus and [securing] its legacy for the next 100 years”.' 1/2

Brilliant day discussing the legacy of the slave trade in London’s built environment! Thanks @londonmuseum.bsky.social Docklands, where students analysed London, Sugar, and Slavery. Oh, and saw the gorgeous St Anne’s Limehouse en route to class, a lovely Hawksmoor church. #architecture 🗃️

Lovely visit to the Ragged School Museum this morning. There schools programme is amazing. Don’t miss the temporary exhibition on the Fisk Jubilee Singers too! #museum #london

#histSTM #histsci and adjacent #bookprize Please share widely!

Happy Catalogue Week! Read about just some of the variety of cataloguing that goes on at The National Archives (UK): www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Check out Peter Martin and my’s #openaccess article on Indigenous mapping and archives and the discipline of geography, part of an Area special section on the Map Room Conversations held at AIC 2024. #skystorians #geography #maps 🗃️

Last chance! Abstracts due tomorrow for the International Conference on the History of Cartography! #cfp #ichc2026 #skystorians #maps 🗃️

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live! Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️

Crazy class dodging the crowds to learn about Greenwich Millenium Village, public art, and creating community and a destination. Sometimes you just have to teach amongst a #five concert. #amteaching

C20's Cooling Towers selected by The Modern House as one of six new titles on the brilliance of 20th and 21st century design. ➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...

Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov. This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️

We’ve uncovered a new species of snake! 🐍 Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived 37 million years ago and has a strange mix of features that suggest it's an early caenophidian, the group containing 80% of living snakes. Discover what it reveals about snake evolution 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Terrific piece. Read the whole thing.

You can listen to me and Jerry Brotton discuss the atlases of Battista Agnese, map collecting and more in this episode of What’s Your Map, from The Sunderland Collection. #podcast #maps #skystorians 🗃️

Kicked off the Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c. 1750–1850) at Seaplane Harbour, part of the Estonian Maritime Museum. It’s a fantastic museum! 1/#museums 🗃️

Have you put out a map exhibition, digital map tool, a map teaching resource, and other map project that isn’t a traditional publication? Submit it to win a prize!! #maps #skystorians 🗃️

For the #histSTM list

Don’t forget to submit your proposals for #ichc2026! Who wouldn’t want to talk about #maps in Prague? Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️

Loved the vibrant #DiadelosMuertos festival @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social . Inclusive, educational and such a relief to get delicious tacos in #london. The Horniman is a great museum that fosters community. Always impressed when we visit. #museums

The Challenging Maps & Exploration symposium is in full swing! We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping. Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️