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 🗃️
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 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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 🗃️
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 🗃️
November 19, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Happy Earth Day from the #sferaproject!
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
(G. Dati, La sfera/The Globe, early 15c; BNCF Magl. XI.83, f. 7r)
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
(G. Dati, La sfera/The Globe, early 15c; BNCF Magl. XI.83, f. 7r)
April 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy Earth Day from the #sferaproject!
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
(G. Dati, La sfera/The Globe, early 15c; BNCF Magl. XI.83, f. 7r)
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
(G. Dati, La sfera/The Globe, early 15c; BNCF Magl. XI.83, f. 7r)
Including yours truly, with amazing maps! #maphistory #medievalsky
DMSI is going international! So thrilled to be working with the wonderful people at IMC Leeds, the University of Leeds Library, and of course my wonderful @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social colleague @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social. Watch this space for the listing of workshops - they are really cool!
We have exciting news for #medievalSky! The Digital Medieval Studies Institute is coming to the International Medieval Congress @imc-leeds.bsky.social! The first UK edition of #DMSI will take place on 11 July 2025 Friday as part of #IMC2025! Details to be announced later this week!
January 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Including yours truly, with amazing maps! #maphistory #medievalsky
In 1683, #camels took part in the Ottoman siege of Vienna. In this military map of the Saxon artillery chief captain Daniel Suttinger (1640-1689) the fleeing of the Turkish troops and their camels are shown. #maphistory #skystorians
Access the zoomable map: www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/ob...
Access the zoomable map: www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/ob...
May 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In 1683, #camels took part in the Ottoman siege of Vienna. In this military map of the Saxon artillery chief captain Daniel Suttinger (1640-1689) the fleeing of the Turkish troops and their camels are shown. #maphistory #skystorians
Access the zoomable map: www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/ob...
Access the zoomable map: www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/ob...
To sum up, #maphistory does have a chapter about folded and only partly digitized maps. Our digital processes of preservation should be better, folks.
#FoldedMaps
#FoldedMaps
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
To sum up, #maphistory does have a chapter about folded and only partly digitized maps. Our digital processes of preservation should be better, folks.
#FoldedMaps
#FoldedMaps
#Historians: I'm on the program committee for the 2026 #AHA in Chicago! Anyone who might be interested in presenting, please get in touch via email [last-name-no-diacritic at ncf full-stop edu] or DM. I'll also put a few idea in the replies.
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #academicsky
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #academicsky
January 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#Historians: I'm on the program committee for the 2026 #AHA in Chicago! Anyone who might be interested in presenting, please get in touch via email [last-name-no-diacritic at ncf full-stop edu] or DM. I'll also put a few idea in the replies.
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #academicsky
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #academicsky
September 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It is worth noting what else made it to these maps: the territories of Indigenous Peoples - Choctaw, Creek, Apalachee and others.
#America250 #FourthOfJuly #MapHistory
#America250 #FourthOfJuly #MapHistory
July 3, 2026 at 11:28 AM
It is worth noting what else made it to these maps: the territories of Indigenous Peoples - Choctaw, Creek, Apalachee and others.
#America250 #FourthOfJuly #MapHistory
#America250 #FourthOfJuly #MapHistory
How barbaric? In the seventeenth-century, European maps still had "BARBARIA" as a part of Africa in them. Barbaria derives from the Arabic term, bilad al-Barbar (land of the Barbar) and was a term contemporarily used mainly for Coastal Northeastern Horn of Africa. 🦁 #earlymodern #maphistory
January 26, 2026 at 10:02 AM
How barbaric? In the seventeenth-century, European maps still had "BARBARIA" as a part of Africa in them. Barbaria derives from the Arabic term, bilad al-Barbar (land of the Barbar) and was a term contemporarily used mainly for Coastal Northeastern Horn of Africa. 🦁 #earlymodern #maphistory
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 🗃️
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 🗃️
Imago Mundi
Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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 🗃️
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 🗃️
And with that, the AMAZING folks at the BAV have HD-digitized all *14* of their Sfera manuscripts! Here's BAV Borg. Lat. 539, f. 7v (elemental spheres): an unassuming MS, but one of my favorites. #bestcollaboratorsever #sferaproject
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
June 10, 2024 at 6:41 PM
And with that, the AMAZING folks at the BAV have HD-digitized all *14* of their Sfera manuscripts! Here's BAV Borg. Lat. 539, f. 7v (elemental spheres): an unassuming MS, but one of my favorites. #bestcollaboratorsever #sferaproject
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
Delighted to see the print version of this special issue on #women and #maps from the Cartographic Journal! #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
June 29, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Delighted to see the print version of this special issue on #women and #maps from the Cartographic Journal! #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
#sferaproject snippet: On Monday I was in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, which has *3* copies of La sfera. This one (MS Ital. 6307, here f4r) was mostly uncolored but the drawings were lovely!
#bookhistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
#bookhistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
March 27, 2024 at 9:08 AM
#sferaproject snippet: On Monday I was in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, which has *3* copies of La sfera. This one (MS Ital. 6307, here f4r) was mostly uncolored but the drawings were lovely!
#bookhistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
#bookhistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory
Oh hey! Lovely seeing my book in the shop of the National Maritime Museum, near those of friends Michael Barritt and @meganbar.bsky.social (among others). The book is not new but delighted to encounter it in the wild in the UK for the first time. #maphistory #seacharts
April 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Oh hey! Lovely seeing my book in the shop of the National Maritime Museum, near those of friends Michael Barritt and @meganbar.bsky.social (among others). The book is not new but delighted to encounter it in the wild in the UK for the first time. #maphistory #seacharts
#sferaproject snippet: Today, just a lovely (and whimsical!) illustration of Cairo and Alexandria from BAV Urb Lat 752, f23r. Note the distances marked along the coastline in red, at right. #maphistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #bookhistory
April 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM
#sferaproject snippet: Today, just a lovely (and whimsical!) illustration of Cairo and Alexandria from BAV Urb Lat 752, f23r. Note the distances marked along the coastline in red, at right. #maphistory #medievalsky #earlymodern #bookhistory
3) I am especially interested in organizing (a) panel(s) or other thing on spatial history/DH. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #spatialhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalmapping #maphistory
January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
3) I am especially interested in organizing (a) panel(s) or other thing on spatial history/DH. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #spatialhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalmapping #maphistory
Hear ye! Hear ye! TEAM #SferaProject just submitted the MS of our gorgeous, super-illustrated, side-by-side It/Eng translation of Dati's _La sfera_, coming from Italica Press in 2025! (This is one cover image option. Srsly, the images are FAB.)
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
June 10, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Hear ye! Hear ye! TEAM #SferaProject just submitted the MS of our gorgeous, super-illustrated, side-by-side It/Eng translation of Dati's _La sfera_, coming from Italica Press in 2025! (This is one cover image option. Srsly, the images are FAB.)
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
Today’s neat object is this instrument case used by Captain William Henry Smyth. Look at those drafting instruments! (rgs701289) #maphistory @rgsibg.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Today’s neat object is this instrument case used by Captain William Henry Smyth. Look at those drafting instruments! (rgs701289) #maphistory @rgsibg.bsky.social
A fascinating feel-good read this Friday.
Featuring four generations of the Guinness family, and the happy conclusion, "Black Sash [a human rights organisation] was able to disband in 1994 with Nelson Mandela’s release from prison", courtesy of our Maps dept.
#HumanRights #Maps #MapHistory.
Featuring four generations of the Guinness family, and the happy conclusion, "Black Sash [a human rights organisation] was able to disband in 1994 with Nelson Mandela’s release from prison", courtesy of our Maps dept.
#HumanRights #Maps #MapHistory.
A @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social #map from #SouthAfrica with a fascinating back story. Learn about #BlackSash & their cartographic efforts to tell the World about apartheid plans for "homelands". See how this map found an international audience. Follow the story at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A fascinating feel-good read this Friday.
Featuring four generations of the Guinness family, and the happy conclusion, "Black Sash [a human rights organisation] was able to disband in 1994 with Nelson Mandela’s release from prison", courtesy of our Maps dept.
#HumanRights #Maps #MapHistory.
Featuring four generations of the Guinness family, and the happy conclusion, "Black Sash [a human rights organisation] was able to disband in 1994 with Nelson Mandela’s release from prison", courtesy of our Maps dept.
#HumanRights #Maps #MapHistory.
A 500-year-old map known as “America’s Birth Certificate” was found a century ago. But what, and where, was “America”?
To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
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#maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
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#maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: What 'America' meant before 1776, and who 'Americans' are today
The label is often wielded now to exclude brown people, but these two continents have been a melting pot since long before the U.S. was founded.
www.latimes.com
July 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
A 500-year-old map known as “America’s Birth Certificate” was found a century ago. But what, and where, was “America”?
To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
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#maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
To learn more, check out my op-ed in the LA Times. PDF & images in 🧵.
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#maphistory #cartography #histsci #earlymodern #america250 #4thofJuly 🗃
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
#sferaproject snippet: Please admire the very Italianate details of these Middle Eastern cities in Riccardiana 818—especially Cairo (spelled Hairo) at bottom right.
#medievalsky #bookhistory #earlymodern #maphistory
#medievalsky #bookhistory #earlymodern #maphistory
March 14, 2024 at 2:32 PM
#sferaproject snippet: Please admire the very Italianate details of these Middle Eastern cities in Riccardiana 818—especially Cairo (spelled Hairo) at bottom right.
#medievalsky #bookhistory #earlymodern #maphistory
#medievalsky #bookhistory #earlymodern #maphistory
So, whatever was on top of your map around 1300, referred to your school of thinking and training. #maphistory
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November 19, 2024 at 7:31 AM
So, whatever was on top of your map around 1300, referred to your school of thinking and training. #maphistory
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