I have this great Spanish history book about female prisoners of the Franco regime who managed to communicate with each other and anti fascist cells by encoding messages in knitting patterns they shared. The male guards never checked them because it was "just" women's knitting patterns

Yes I know, I post this one too often, but it could be worse, I'm managing to keep myself from posting it every day.

Oooh @lufthansagroup.bsky.social with the retro livery stylin'. I likey. youtu.be/NM-ZGBDyhj8?...

Let me take you on a journey about how Murray's Guides, Baedeker & Bradshaw transformed travel and tourism. Two of these guides will also feature in our February Stories Unboxed display. But it all began with a woman named Mariana Starke... All aboard!!! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

This extraordinary tale of John Cairncross' love letters to Gloria Barraclough is just one feature of the National Archives new Love Letters exhibition, which opens this weekend. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

New British Rail train livery?? Not a fan, particularly the carriages, with them lacking the usual continuity of design you expect along the length of a train. I especially don't like the way they present half going in one direction, and half going opposite - very jarring.

Maps are ESSENTIAL to understanding the Burma campaign. I would have loved to include more in Jungle Commandos but budgets be budgets. Here is one of my favourites of the Myebon peninsula, as we remember the men of 3 Cdo & 74 Brigade who were fighting their way north towards Kantha #OTD in 1945

The Soviet Union spent 3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days fighting against Nazi Germany. Putin's "3-day special military operation" to force regime change in Kyiv has now lasted 3 years, 10 months and three weeks - longer than the entire Eastern Front of WW2. Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Kursk...

At the UK National Archives this morning, the top pond is completely frozen, the lower only remains clear of ice under the water flow.

Exceptional Christmas cracker joke today.

I recently had a very moving and enlightening couple of days studying the battlefields of the Zulu and Second Anglo-Boer War. There is no better way to understand how events unfolded than walking the ground yourself. www.linkedin.com/posts/racfle...

Horrifying. By why were they left in the van in an unsecured location?

Looking for a perfect stocking filler for the map lover in your life? (Even if that is you) Well, the Second Edition of TNA's popular 'Maps: Their Untold Stories' is out now just in time to navigate it's way under your Christmas tree! 🎄📖 🎁 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/maps-thei...

Am I the only one who thinks the cover art/poster for MI: The Final Reckoning looks like a stunt pilot DLC for Microsoft Flight Simulator?

Suffragettes in London's Hyde Park, 1908, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), the UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

Tempus fugit.

oh god, of course every academic in this country has to use a VPN for their work because every university department in this country somehow runs itself off a shared drive folder called admin/ADMIN/humanities/CURRENT_humanities/history/HISTORY_ALL/admin

📰 Why are landslides grinding travel routes to a halt? BGS engineering geohazard geologist, Dr Claire Dashwood, is featured on the BBC discussing what makes certain parts of the UK more susceptible and why climate change is predicted to increase their frequency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A disappointingly old-fashioned, and long past it's prime, conservative history of Australia that is surprisingly still trope-ish (more good than bad) in its dismissiveness of indigenous history & unsurprisingly forgiving of empire from a pro-monarchy former PM. theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Very excited to hear today's speakers @rgsibg.bsky.social's Challenging Maps and Exploration symposium.

What was a bear worth in Elizabethan England? Well, thanks to a deed held at The National Archives [TNA C 146/8581], we at least know a few specifics, like Nan, the old she bear, valued at 30s in 1590. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Lovely review of The Boroughs of London by the London Society: "At less than a £1.00 a Borough this is surely the best value book on London around at the moment." Can't argue with that! 😉 ➡️ londonsociety.org.uk/the-boroughs...

@britishlibrary.bsky.social has launched their exciting "Secret Maps" exhibition - I hope you can find your way there. events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

One observation on the Louvre robbery, having been there a couple of time recently. There is immense 'security theatre' for visitors waiting to get in. And what has happened affirms the general rule: the greater the 'security theatre' the weaker the actual security.

In 1882, Andrew Watson captained the Scottish team to victory over England at a stadium in Glasgow which was thought to be lost ⚽ But with the help of volunteers, @archscot.bsky.social unearthed evidence of the pavilion and playing surface in 2021: www.digitscotland.com/uncovering-b... #BHM25

Great acknowledgement of the historical diversity of the British (and Empire) armed forces, and a fabulous portrait as well.

In 2019 Sasha Trubetskoy created a fabulous series of tube map style maps of Roman roads. They include major arteries of the whole empire, and ones which focus on the modern nations of Britain, Spain/Portugal, France and Italy. Here is the British one: sashamaps.net/images/roman...

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Quite impressive mapping tool that lets you easily trace heat or cold stress on any given date from 1945 to the present. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/feel...

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

If you enjoy impressive infrastructure projects, HS2's Delta Junction is some quality stuff. youtu.be/1C_DkLtO4i8?...

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

This is the kind of pun I can dig.

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

If you are heading towards #ClaphamJunction and plan on using P1 - it is rammed to the yellow line and backed up across the footbridge. You might want to consider a diffetent route.

Thank you to the organisers for arranging a lovely meal at Brown’s, Nottingham last night. It was a pleasure to spend time with so many like minded cartographers and form those friendships that last longer than the two days a year we spend with each other!! #carto2025 #bcsmaps #network #community

Had a chance to flick through Maps on Vinyl at the BCS conference, it is a really fascinating and unique take on the use of cartography in album covers and all proceeds are going towards helping up and coming musicians in Australia. Worth a read.

Our final session was a panel discussion on the future of geospatial visualisation with host David Sherran, BCS President Paul Naylor and guests Julian Williams, Helen McKenzie and Leanne Hughes. A thought provoking end to two great days. #carto2025 #maps #future #edinburgh2026 !