#MappyMonday! This 1938 map of #London was released to raise money for Great Ormund Street Hospital for Children (@greatormondst.bsky.social) This map is from @layersoflondon.bsky.social , check it out at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #MapMonday #HistoricalMaps #HGIS

Pictured: Hutchinson Internment Camp on the #IsleOfMan during #WorldWar2 Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the UK Holocaust Map, a learning resource created by The Association of Jewish Refugees @theajruk.bsky.social  See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...

“Once, centuries ago, a map was a thing of beauty, a testament not to the way things were but to the heights scaled by men's dreams.” ― Bea González Pictured: A New and Exact Plan of the Town of Scarborough, 1725 From the @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social #Humap Explore at www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma...

Pictured: Cigar Makers Working with Cigar Presses at the A. Santaella and Company Factory, #Tampa, #Florida, 1924. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Tampa Through Time, a new digital archive of Floridian history created by the University of South Florida Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si...

👥 From mapping historic neighbourhoods to visualising spatial environmental data, Humap brings data to life Simple, accessible, collaborative storytelling for any community. Join us: humap.me #GIS #HGIS #Crowdsourcing #CitizenScience #DigitalHumanities #GLAM #GLAMA

Pictured: 'Ebo Boy' by Lela Harris, an imagined portrait of a young African boy enslaved in #Lancaster. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Facing The Past, mapping Lancaster's ties to the Transatlantic Slave Trade www.facingthepast.org/map/r... #Lancashire #BritishHistory

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

“It's easy to forget that old maps were once statements of the very latest in thinking: new visions brimming with the potential and power of up-to-date knowledge." -Huew Lewis-Jones World Map, 1900 From the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social , c/o #rumseymapcenter www.refugeemap.org/map/over...

Pictured: pupils at Marriot Road Central School, #London, 1915 This record is from Layers of London, a crowdsourcing history platform for all things London Contributed by @thelondonarchives.bsky.social @layersoflondon.bsky.social

Pictured: the North East Association of Jewish Ex-Service Men at parade in #London, 1930. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Unlocking North East Jewish History, a project from @northeastmuseums.bsky.social See more unejh.humap.site/map/record... #JewishHistory #Newcastle #Sunderland #Durham

🤳 Use viewsheds to indicate the position and angle a photo was taken from. This feature is great for Records with lots of photos attached, comparing images of the same subject, or for contextualising different items. humap.me/resources/document...

Call for Papers: Travellers of the Sea – Conference on Maritime History, Marine Archaeology and Ethnology smhy.fi/en/activitie... CFP deadline 1st November 2025 [email protected]

Blackwork design for goldsmith work featuring a hunter and a fisherman (1612) by Mathais Beitler. Source: @metmuseum.org Available to buy as a print. https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5ad72413-a919-46f9-9282-639ec281c0e4 #animals #decorative #jewelry #black #bridges #ink #art #publicdomain

Kenneth Williams (1926-1988) was an actor, comedian, diarist, and raconteur, most famous for his roles in the 'Carry On' films. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #IslingtonsPride #Humap, a map of #Islington's #LGBTQ history & culture Learn more at islingtonspride.com/humap/ IslingtonsPride #Humap

Hidden Venice (together with another addition to the HistoryCity family) won the Heritage in Motion Prize for Virtual and Augmented Reality! Congratulations to Fabrizio and the rest of the team! Very happy that VeDPH had the opportunity to play a crucial role in it.

📚 Love church #history? Join the Ecclesiastical History Society and connect with scholars, resources, and conversations that shape our understanding of the past. Membership includes journal access, events & more! 🔗 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/membership/a... #ChurchHistory #Skystorians

"Bright stalls, bursting with colour and carnival light, defy the smoggy shadows of Sheffield. Laughter and music cut through the gloom, a vibrant, temporary spark in the town's dark expanse." Sheffield Fair: John Simmons (1871–1944) Museums Sheffield

Try it yourself at the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 🧠 LLMs for data annotation 🗝️ SANE for sensitive data 💻 Software showcase with metasyn & SURF Cloud. Hands-on workshops to explore tools, ask questions & boost your research. Claim your spot 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

#StandingStoneSunday: the 3-metre tall standing stone on Pencraig Brae, East Lothian, looking south to the rounded Traprain Law with its hillfort, and the Lammermuir Hills beyond. The old Great North Road crosses this view, on the far side of the wall in the middle of this picture.

Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely: ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting. Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

Pictured: Queen Square Market, #Liverpool. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from #MappingMemory, an oral history map of the Liverpool dockland See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom

It’s October, which means it’s time for #GIFITUP2025, our annual GIF making contest! Discover heritage collections, boost your creativity, learn new skills & win prizes. GIF IT UP runs from now until the end of October. This year's theme is food - we can’t wait to see your entries! gifitup.net/en/

🚨 New feature alert! 🚨 The number one thing you asked for in the Cities and Memory community survey was the ability to share an individual sound from our sound map. Now on our global sound map, you can! 🗺️ 🎧 citiesandmemory.com/sound-map

Explore #Medieval #Coventry online or in-person with this weeks #TrailsTuesday contribution: Medieval Coventry over on the #CoventryAtlas! www.coventryatlas.org/map/t... #History  #EnglishHistory #WestMidlands #BritishHistory #CoventryHistory #CulturalHeritage #Heritage

Pictured: 1853 Plan of the Town of #Tampa, #Florida, #UnitedStates This beautiful georeferenced map is from Tampa Through Time, created by the University of South Florida! Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si... #MapMonday #MappyMonday #USA #USAHistory #GIS #HGIS

Interested in learning more about Humap? 🗓️ Join a public demo calendly.com/humap-me/publi... 🧑 Book a personal demo calendly.com/humap-me/initi... ✉️ Send us an email at [email protected] #GIS #HGIS #PGIS #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScience

Pictured: the Clifton Street Mineral Water Company Staff, #Scarborough, 1911 Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the Scarborough Atlas, created by @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social See more www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma... #History #BritishHistory #Yorkshire #GLAM #EdwardianHistory

A Jewish exile from the #Nazis, Karl Rankl fled to #Britain and became one of this country’s most distinguished conductors and composers. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the UK Holocaust Map, created by @theajruk.bsky.social See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m... #WW2 #WorldWar2 #BritishHistory

👥 Want to get out to more #GLAMA, #GIS, or #DigitalHumanities events in 2025? We keep a list of upcoming conferences here: humap.me/blog-community/eve... Have an event you'd like us to add? Comment, DM, or email us at [email protected] and we'll add it to the list.

Pictured: students at the #Tampa School of Household Arts instruction, #Florida, 1916. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Tampa Through Time, a Floridian history portal created by the University of South Florida Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si... #USA #UnitedStates

We're delighted to be involved in this new project from the Museum of London Archaeology, embracing the power of citizen science and crowdsourcing to document coastal erosion and the effects of climate change 🌊 cim.mola.org.uk / www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/... #MOLA #CitizenScience #PGIS

✏️ Draw polygons and shapes directly onto the map with the Annotator This feature is fantastic for Records relating to more than one location, or when a single map pin isn't appropriate. humap.me/

John Bond inherited his wealth from family members who owned slavery plantations. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #FacingThePast. See more www.facingthepast.org/map/r... #Lancaster #Lancashire #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #TransAtlanticSlaveTrade #History

“Robert Burton was right: maps are a certain cure for melancholy.” ― Tim Mackintosh-Smith The 1750 Bradford Map of #Coventry, from the #CoventryAtlas #Humap Explore at www.coventryatlas.org/map/overlays... #Maps #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #HistoricMaps #WestMidlands

Pictured: Buses in front of Crown Hotel, #London c.1910 Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Layers of London, a crowdsourcing history platform @layersoflondon.bsky.social Take a look - and create your own records - at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #History #BritishHistory #UK

❗ Tomorrow ❗ Oct 3rd, 10:30 GMT - First DARIAH-EU #FridayFrontiers of Autumn! Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software: archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal for Spatial and Statistical Exploration of Archaeological Data. All welcome! Register for Zoom link: buff.ly/sFla7dX

Pictured: an advertisement for P. Cohen and C. Cohen, Kosher Butchers, 1938. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Unlocking North Eastern Jewish Heritage, a project from North East Museums @northeastmuseums.bsky.social See more unejh.humap.site/map/record...

Here's a curiosity on a first edition Ordnance Survey map of Hartwell: a rifle range going out 800 yards through fields!

The pair of menhirs known as Les Pierres Jumelles in Olonne-sur-Mer (Vendée) are both about 4m tall and stand 5m apart. One is a typical menhir, the other a more rounded block. This card by Poupin in Mortagne c.1904.

Monumental Camel Depictions from 12,000 Years Ago Discovered in Arabia Were “Signals” Toward Water www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/m...

Our full conference schedule is now available to view on our website! Check it out here: memrnchase.wordpress.com/memrn-winter... And if you'd like to register to join us virtually, registrations for virtual attendance are now open via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1559240072...

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Pictured: the Scandinavian Church, #Liverpool, 1968. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r... #OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory

Happy #TrailsTuesday! Experience #Liverpool in the 1950s with the #MappingMemory Baltic Triangle Trail. Take a look at www.mappingmemory.org/map/t... #OralHistory #BritishHistory #UKHistory #WalkingTours #Trails

What did #Coventry look like 200 years ago? 250? 400?! Watch Coventry (or is it Coventre?) grow at www.coventryatlas.org/map/o... From #CoventryAtlas #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps #MappyMonday #MapMonday

"The renowned artist Oskar Kokoschka, a fierce critic of the Nazis who had Jewish heritage fled Germany in 1934 and settled in Britain." Our #RecordOfTheDay is from @theajruk.bsky.social #Humap See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m... #WW2 #SecondWorldWar #BritishHistory

👥 Want to get out to more #GLAMA, #GIS, or #DigitalHumanities events in 2025? We keep a list of upcoming conferences here: humap.me/blog-community/eve... Have an event you'd like us to add? Comment, DM, or email us at [email protected] and we'll add it to the list.

Pictured: Men standing inside La Coporativa grocery store, #Tampa, #Florida, c.1920s Our #RecordOfTheDay is from #Tampa Through Time, created by the University of South Florida #Humap See more tampa-through-time.humap.si... #USA #USHistory #USAHistory