“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colours show the realisation of great dreams.” - Gilbert Grosvenor Explore historic #Scarborough at www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma... @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social #WednesdayWisdom #Maps #GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities

Pictured: Earlsdon Branch Library, #Coventry, unveiling of memorial tablet. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #CoventryAtlas #Humap. See more at www.coventryatlas.org/map/

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

Only 23 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Petrarch, Sistine Music, Cicero, Suetonious, Arnold de Villanova, Aristotle, Ge'ez liturgy and amulets, and a Fransiscan Missale... and more #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A #tinyjoy to bring some cheer on what is a grey, wintery day in the Boston area: A late #18thc snuffbox with the motto "The Eyes have pow'r/ To kill or cure." Be careful, all, of basilisk women with doves.

This January, discover the timeless tradition of storytelling in the collections of the Cathedral Library and Archives, from creation accounts to tales of medieval pilgrimages, saints’ lives and daring quests for the Holy Grail. 📘 15 Jan 📘 1pm - 3pm 📘 Free drop-in session bit.ly/in-focus-stories

CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky

A very interesting (if somewhat grim) document well-discussed. #MaritimeHistory globalmaritimehistory.com/discuss-a-do...

Day 2 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is: 🌊 marram — as in the "marram grass" which thrives in coastal dunes A Scandinavian loan (< marr ‘sea’ + hálmr ‘straw/reed’), known as "marehalm" along Norwegian and Danish coasts. Photo: Marram grass, Alan Hughes (CC BY-SA 2.0)

New Blog to share from the Coasts in Mind @coastsinmind.bsky.social project. Sand between your toes: Our collective coastal minds By Paul Montgomery cim.mola.org.uk/blogs/sand-b... #NationalLotteryPlayers #CoastalArchaeology #HeritageFund #intertidal #coastalcommunities #MaritimeHeritage

Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Happy #TrailsTuesday! Learn about women's suffrage in #Coventry with today's #trail from the #CoventryAtlas: www.coventryatlas.org/map/t... #WalkingTrails #History #EnglishHistory #WestMidlands #BritishHistory #CoventryHistory #CulturalHeritage #Heritage #Suffragettes #Feminism

Pictured: the Bote de Zamora, a pyxis commissioned in 964CE by a caliph to celebrate the birth of his first child. This item was contributed to @europeana.bsky.social's Twin It! exhibition by Spain's Museo Arqueológico Nacional Take a look at it in #3D at www.europeana.eu/nl/exhibit...

Pictured: Georg Rhaw (1488–1548), a German composer and publisher of music. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Senfl's World, created by the University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna #Humap  See more senfls-world.humap.site/map... #EuropeanHistory #RenaissanceEurope

Happy #MappyMonday! You can find gorgeous map of #HillsboroughCounty, #Florida in 1882 over on #Tampa Through Time, created by the University of South Florida Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si... #USA #UnitedStates #GIS #HGIS #MapMonday #USHistory

Ilse was sent on a Kindertransport from #Vienna to #England in July 1939.  Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap See more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco... #WW2 #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #BritishHistory #AustrianHistory

Pictured: Derek Jarman (1942-1994) - film director, artist, diarist, author and tireless activist for #LGBTQ+ rights Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #IslingtonsPride #Humap See more islingtonspride.com/humap/ #LGBTQ #LGBT #London #LGBTQHistory #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory

Pictured: C&A, #Liverpool, 1947. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

"How does a landscape of Prehistoric artefacts reflect the experience of place, heritage, and changing meanings for people who left traces thousands of years ago, and for people now?" -Dr Samantha Brummage, Prehistoric England: Inherited Places Read more humap.me/blog-community/blo...

To begin with today, happy 117th anniversary to this entirely reasonable cat

2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers! Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026. CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social

⏰ Reminder: #DH2026 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching! The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up: 📅 December 8, 2025 23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time) 14:59 GMT (UK) 09:59 EST (US East Coast) Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)! www.conftool.pro/dh2026/

"That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible" ~ Rosita Forbes Discover #London in 1720 at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps

Pictured: The 10th North Riding Battalion Home Guard, #Scarborough, #WorldWarOne Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social #Humap See more www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma... #FirstWorldWar #WW1 #Yorkshire #NorthYorkshire #History

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.

'Launderette, Sydenham' (2019) by Michelle Heron michelleheron.co.uk

🗺️ Looking for a way to get your students thinking spatially? Bring learning to life with humap.me/ #EdTech #GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities

📢 Only 2 days left to get your applications in for the HSDS Small Grants Programme! Check out the link below for more details ⬇️ #heritage #science #development #funding

Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts. Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious. The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇 www.rgs.org/research/hig...

The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.

Joseph and Margaret Kagan, survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuania, came to the UK in 1946. They established Kagan Textiles Ltd. and opened a small factory in Elland. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from The UK Holocaust Map, created by @theajruk.bsky.social See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...

I posted the talk I gave at the annual POD Network conference last week: "Digital Processes, Not Products: Embracing Digital Ephemerality and Iteration." Topics include AI, digital pedagogy, hypertext, and more! jimmcgrath.us/teaching/dig...

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

First founded in 943AD, All Saints church in Derby (now the Cathedral) was rebuilt in the 1720s; the first sermon in the new church was given #OnThisDay, 300 years ago. #EYAReligion/Spirituality #art #watercolour

Latin word of the day: celo, celare, celavi, celatus - hide #LatinWordOfTheDay

Edward, Prince of Wales sports a bowler hat to open Leyton County High School for Boys at its new site at Essex Road, Leyton on 28 Nov 1929. Here he is welcomed at the Town Hall by the mayor, Alderman Sydney Cochrane, bicorn hat in hand. A top hat is seen on a dignitary on left. #InternationalHatDay

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research? The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)

ICYMI, our #OhioDIG Insta this week was a #KentStateLibraries take over! Check it out: www.instagram.com/ohiodig/ And Ohio #digitization / #digipres folks, watch for a call soon to do your own take over! #OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives

Join us in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 25-26, 2026! This year's theme is "Ready, Set, Preserve! Making Space for Play in Digital Preservation" See you there! dpassh.org

#OTD in 1459 marked the opening of the Coventry Parliament. Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:

And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!

Pictured: David Nachmann, around 1934. He was allowed to return to Chemnitz from Poland to wrap up his affairs, but was then arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap Learn more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...

Trade, first beginning in 1990, was #London’s first #gay after-hours club night, hosted at Turnmills nightclub. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #IslingtonsPride #Humap See more islingtonspride.com/humap/ #Islington #BritishHistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory

“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...

North Bridge in Edinburgh, circa 1880, possibly viewed from the old Calton jail.

Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back! For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period. Open for booking now:

Pictured: Kirkland Jennings, Hardman Street, #Liverpool 1973. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

🏛️ For classrooms, libraries, and communities Humap is bridging the gap between people and their histories with easy-to-use, interactive maps. 🗺️ Learn more humap.me #GIS #HGIS #GLAM #DigitalHumanities