👥 Do you use our #crowdsourcing feature? Now you can customise the help text, making it easier to guide your audience through the creation process. humap.me/resources/do... #GIS #Geospatial

Pictured: Naval Company Marching in Gasparilla Parade, #Tampa, #Florida, 1926 Our #RecordOfTheDay is from #Tampa Through Time, the University of South Florida #Humap See more tampa-through-time.humap.si... #USA #USHistory #USAHistory

Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

It's #InternationalMapDay! Here's a 🧵 of some of our favourite historical maps on Humap. 1) Civitas Londinium (1561/1633): this gorgeous isometric map features hundreds of little moments of everyday life, from rowing across the Thames to archery practice www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

Many of our prospectuses help us chart the changing landscape of #Leicester and @dmu.ac.uk campus, but one of our #maplover faves for #InternationalMapDay is this cover from 1933-34. @librarydmu.bsky.social #alumni #MapMonday #ThrowbackThursday

Find out more about our Mapping our Exeter project & explore digitised maps (1587-1970s) from the collections in our online exhibit ➡️ specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/exhibits/sho... 📷 Edmund maps 942.359/E30 CIT; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #InternationalMapDay #MappingOurExeter

We love this fire insurance plan from 1906, which shows some of the local Edinburgh shops and businesses around Surgeons' Hall, Hill Square and The Pleasance. #InternationalMapDay

Today is International Map Day! One of our favourite maps in the collections is this map of Exeter, engraved by Frans Hogenberg in c 1618. Can you identify any landmarks that still exist today? 📷 Constable Maps 27; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #InternationalMapDay #MappingOurExeter

Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an American-born musician, actor, and political activist. He moved to #London, studied at SOAS, and was one of the first Black men to play #Othello on the #WestEnd. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Humap www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

Happy #TrailsTuesday! Check out the Green Hearts #walkingtrail over on #100YearsOfMileCross 100yearsofmilecross.humap.s... #Trails #Norwich #Norfolk

#MappyMonday! Here's a gorgeous 1921 soil map of Duval County, #Florida Explore this map and others like it at tampa-through-time.humap.si... #GIS #HGIS #DH #Maps #US #USHistory

Pictured: A Grand Concert by the Maccabean Pierrots, 1917. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Unlocking North East Jewish Heritage, created by @northeastmuseums.bsky.social #Humap See more unejh.humap.site/map/record... #JewishHistory #Newcastle #Sunderland #Durham #NorthernHistory

Pictured: #Mesolithic flint core from Tanybwlch, near #Aberystwyth, #Wales. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the Portalis Project See more portalisproject.eu/map/ #Archaeology #Mesolithic #WelshHistory #IrishHistory

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

🤳 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...

Pictured: St Helen's Square, #Scarborough, 1840, illustrated by R. E. Clarke Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Scarborough Museums & Galleries #Scarborough Atlas project See more www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma...

 The YMCA Agricultural Training Centre at Ham Green was part of a scheme called British Boys for British Farms during #WorldWar2. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from #@theajruk.bsky.social #Humap See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...

Pictured: Crowd Gathered at Spring Bayou in Tarpon Springs, #Florida, for the Epiphany Celebration of Diving for the Cross, 1937 Our #RecordOfTheDay is from #Tampa Through Time the @usouthflorida.bsky.social #Humap Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si... #USAHistory #USHistory #AmericanHistory

"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

📝 New feature: editable help text in our crowdsourcing tools If your project uses Contribute, you can now customise the help text that guides your audience through the creative process. Contact us if you would like this feature enabled.

Our popular GIS Workshop Series 🌐 begins on Jan 28, runs weeklyish Wednesdays 2-3pm, meeting in-person in SLab's Common Room (Shannon Library 308). Zero experience needed, & non-UVA folks are very welcome! Overview of this terms GIS workshops here 🎩

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeedingTime. This is from last Spring - a White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) feeding a juvenile. The White-throated Dipper is the national bird of Norway, although this one was in the UK. #birds #photography

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the penguins, for today is their special day! This engraving of a 'Patagonian Penguin' can be found in 'Animated Nature Vol. 2' (1821) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #PenguinAwarenessDay #PenguinDay #RareBooks

A glimpse of some famous old stones for #TombTuesday 🥰 📷 Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire, last August

"Safety In Trousers. Group Of Girls Employed In Munition Work "Where Skirts Would Be Dangerous."" Bexhill Observer 20.1.1917. #Bexhill #Sussex #WW1 #History #1910s

Thankfully it's #HillfortsWednesday 🍻🥳🙀 Here's our fabulous @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab model of the incredible St David's Head coastal promontory fort in Pembrokeshire, surveyed just before Christmas The rock terrain created a very special place to live ⛰️ Browse online here: skfb.ly/pFoXw

It's easy to forget that hillforts had a life after the Iron Age Here's a fine recreation of significant later activity © Peter Dunn / Historic England It's Aug 1086 and William I has has brought the landowners of England to Old Sarum #Wiltshire to swear allegiance to him #HillfortsWednesday

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

This Friday (16/01/26) Miles Russell will be giving a talk entitled "The Durotriges Project: Life and death in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Dorset". The talk is sponsored by @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social. 7.45pm, United Reformed Church hall, Welwyn Garden City. All welcome (visitors £3).

UCD #CitizenScience event Met Éireann is calling on the public to help rescue millions of historic weather observations currently held in handwritten paper records.🌀 Dr. Rhonda McGovern will run a free hands-on workshop on 27 Jan in James Joyce Library Link 3. Register: forms.gle/cXs26gVj68pN...

And as promised, here they be! 🌼Snowdrops spotted at our Woods Mill Nature Reserve by Volunteer Coordinator Julia. 📷 Snowdrops © Julia Hoare

There are still places on our 2 day writing course for PhD students . This in-person trainingwill help you with your writing skills and craft with a particular emphasis on style and structure www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 Call for Papers - EAA 2026 Athens Papers are invited for a session organised by the ADS related to the broad area of metadata enrichment, FAIR principles, and engaging content for user communities. 🗒️ Papers, 15 min 🕑 Deadline: 28 January 2026 For more information please visit: buff.ly/G5f4pi2

Wedgwood Festival of Britain mug, designed by Norman Makinson, & depicting the Skylon and Crystal Palace.

Dear Digital Humanists, you are all invited to the EADH 2026 Conference! We are meeting in September, in Kraków, Poland. Mark the important dates in your calendars: 📆 8.02: submission deadline 📆 15-19.09: the conference Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl ✈️ See you in Kraków?

A map of the University and city from 1751, much of it still recognisable today! 🗺️ Shelmark: Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 12

Hey everyone who’s overinterested in #defence or #OSINT or just #GIS: do you happen to know any good resources, like datasets, GIS shapefiles, etc etc that could be useful for doing some OSINT exercises about the environs of Finland and the Baltic countries? OR are you interested in joining forces?

Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, winter 1939-40. Photo by Laurie Dray. #Bexhill #Sussex #Winter #Weather #Snow #WW2 #History #1930s #1940s #ThrowbackThursday

Historic Environment Scotland are hosting 4 free online events all about 'Making the Case for Archives and Libraries'. Each running on Monday lunchtime from 19th Jan to 9th Feb, and lasting an hour. Click the link below for more info and to book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/cc/making-th...

Tickets to attend our online #HMD2026 lecture are now live! Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...

🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨 We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!

How's this for a view? Here's Pen Y Fan, Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) looking sublime after fresh snowfall this week.

Want to learn more about SABRE Maps? Not sure which #maps we have available or how to find them? Or what other mapping functions we have? Perhaps you just like maps, history or the railways? Join us for our first-ever Zoom session, Wed 14 Jan 2026 - free at 1930 UK/Ireland time. buff.ly/JxwTeg1

The Society is delighted to see that the Clifton Hotel in #Scarborough has been listed at Grade II. Wilfred Owen worked on his World War I war poetry whilst billeted at the hotel during the conflict. He worked from the tower whilst convalescing. Read the excellent list entry here: bit.ly/4jDs9uk

It's the first #HillfortsWednesday of 2026 !! Here's a fantastic recreation of the main N gate approach corridor to Tre'r Ceiri #Gwynedd 🤩 © A Smith / @henebtwa.bsky.social From G Smith *Hillforts and Hut Groups of NW Wales* @intarcheditor.bsky.social 👇👇 intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

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...

I’m looking forward to this at the end of the month. There are still a couple of places if anyone has students who would benefit. #MedievalSky @ihr.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

News from Explore the Past that the excavations at Broadway #Worcestershire will be featured in Digging for Britain in episode 3 of the new series on the 21st www.explorethepast.co.uk/2026/01/theb...

A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.

Our collections of archives, maps and rare books are available for everyone to access for research, interest or enjoyment in the Reading Room! When visiting us, please: 🗓️ Book in advance 🧼 Wash your hands with soap and water ✏️ Bring a pencil or electronic device (no pens!) Book your visit here ⬇️