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 🗃️

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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 🗃️

Due to a schedule shift, taught in the evening tonight. We discussed Brutalism and High Tech, but I only got photos of the Exchange and Walbrook. Walked from Barbican to the Gherkin, which was suitably spooky for this Halloween week. 👻 🎃

New! I had great fun talking w/ @drjoannepaul.bsky.social about how she embraces creativity and artistry and how she writes vividly about Tudor history. If you've ever dreamed of writing a history that reads almost like a novel, you're going to love this episode. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Colleagues and I had a great time on a Parakeet Tour of Hyde Park led by Christie Swallow. What is an ‘invasive species’? What is ‘wild’? Loved the integration of imperial and environmental history. We are all paracologists now (with pins!) 🗃️

Lovely bunch of @notredame.bsky.social students came to the reading room today to encounter objects in the history of exploration. I never tire of their excitement at seeing historical objects (Speke’s sextant was popular today) And thanks for the hat!

Brilliant visit to @queerbritain.bsky.social ! Loved the permanent exhibition and Top by Claye Bowler, a trip through transition in the form of a museum store. What a great community space, resource, and collection! Visit if you are near King’s Cross! #museums #skystorians 🗃️

It was all steel, plate glass, and railroads today with the #architecture students. Dodged rain and wind at St Pancras International, King’s Cross, and Coal Drops Yard. #amteaching

Popped into Word on the Water after teaching and nabbed Africonomics by Bronwen Everill. Excited to read this much nominated book by a brilliant scholar! #books #skystorians #bookshop #london

Learned so much from Kumail Rajani & John P Cooper about the late-18th-century Gujarati sea chart in the @rgsibg.bsky.social collections. You can listen to this and other Be Inspired lectures via our talks on demand service. #skystorians #histcart #maps 🗃️

Had a lovely class on Gothic Revival #architecture and the rise of museums in the #c19 last week. It was made all the better by a #sumo sighting at the Albert Memorial. #amteaching #histarch

Congratulations to the authors shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize—“celebrating writing grounded in high-quality research-works that will inspire readers to deepen their understanding of people, society & cultures across time & place.” www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...

Are you using #maps in research? Want to learn about their history and use as sources? In London in late January? Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place! #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

An amazing “Middle Temple & the World” study day @middletemple.bsky.social Library! We looked up close at the Molyneaux Globes with conservator Sylvia Sumira & saw archival & library material with @rsatterley.bsky.social & @barnabat.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

Chatted about civic buildings, museums, and the architecture of empire Somerset House and Trafalgar Square. As always, students came up with great Fourth Plinth ideas and the sun shone (for this class only, others it only rains for) #amteaching #histarch #architecture 🗃️

Scars like these must be addressed before Homs can be rebuilt, Dalal writes. Reconstruction, then, can't be led by designers alone. "Physical rebuilding cannot go faster than social reconciliation, or we will be hardening lines that lead to further violence and grief." Read his full essay here:

Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out! I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i. #newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

The @rgsibg.bsky.social is currently holding Impossible Measures, an amazing exhibition of Kristina Chan’s work inspired by historic instruments in their collection. Thank you @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social for the invite to the opening. Looking forward to reading your essay in the catalogue.

So happy that we, with the generous help of @nhm.org , could ensure that Icicle is stable and ready for display. #penguin #conservation 🐧 www.rgs.org/about-us/our...