#MappyMonday
Be still, my beating heart
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The colours used on some of the Valuation Office maps are SO vibrant.

Another thing of stunning beauty for #MappyMonday
March 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Thanks to Griffiths Valuation and the accompanying maps on www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-val... I've been able to find the precise location of the house that the soldier I'm currently researching lived and died in. He served in the British Army between 1805 and 1814.

#MappyMonday #MapMonday
October 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
More old maps for #OnePlaceStudies in England and Wales! Check out the latest additions from NLS Maps on #MapMonday / #MappyMonday.
This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛

We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.

Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
On this #MappyMonday, if you had this RIEGL VZ-2000i long range terrestrial lidar, what would you map? #PiewPiew #R2Piew2
November 25, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I was sorting out some document images over the weekend from a research trip to Derbyshire Record Office way back in September 2023 and I came across this wonderful map which links to my #OnePlaceStudy of Longnor, Staffordshire

#MapMonday #MappyMonday #Longnor #Maps
August 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Explore #London in 1746 on @layersoflondon.bsky.social :https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/rocque-10-mile-1746

#MappyMonday #Maps #AntiqueMaps #InteractiveMaps #GIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #GLAM #EdTech #MapMonday
September 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Most Orcadians are clear about one thing. You can call their homeland 'Orkney' or 'the Orkney Islands' but NEVER 'The Orkneys'.

Quite what they would make of early 18th century cartographer Herman Moll's use of the term 'Orkneyshire' I really wouldn't like to say... 😱

#MapMonday #MappyMonday
December 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
July 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Did you know that there was formerly a small part of the county of Kent, on the *north* bank of the River Thames?

Two detached parts of the parish of Woolwich (the area is still known as North Woolwich) were subsumed into Greater London in 1965.

#MappyMonday @natlibscot.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 1:06 PM
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
County boundaries weren't always as neat as we'd like them to be. The area around Meppershall in Bedfordshire was particularly complicated giving rise to this cartographical equivalent of a shrug of the shoulders:

HARTFORD SHIRE intermixed with BEDFORD SHIRE
The Limits uncertain

#MappyMonday
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I'm up in Edinburgh for a few days and I nearly missed #MappyMonday

Here's a detail from the 1763 edition of John Laurie's map of Midlothain which, unusually, is orientated with 'North' at the bottom of the map. Cramond village is, of course, on the south bank of the Firth of Forth.

#MapMonday
September 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy #MappyMonday #GISchat

Here's something I've been working on

#geospatial #geoda
May 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
March 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#MappyMonday!

This week we're highlighting the iconic Charles Booth map of poverty in Victorian London, preserved and shared online by the London School of Economics ‪@lselibrary.bsky.social‬

Check out the map, and Booth's notes in stunning IIIF, at booth.lse.ac.uk/
July 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
For #MappyMonday here's a detail from a classic late 19th century hand-coloured 25" Ordnance Survey map.
Railways, canals, rivers, industry, parks, housing, pubs, schools, churches; it's all here and it's all magnificent - although I'm not sure I would have liked to live in those 'back-to-backs'! 😐
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
May 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Explore #London in 1746 on @layersoflondon.bsky.social :https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/rocque-10-mile-1746

#MappyMonday #Maps #AntiqueMaps #InteractiveMaps #GIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #GLAM #EdTech #MapMonday
February 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#MappyMonday: Haunted Halifax

For those who love ghost tours, this student map invites readers to explore Halifax’s haunted folklore and sites in a fun and mysterious way! The full map can be found here: tinyurl.com/HalifaxGhostMap.

#Canada #Halifax #GhostTours #Haunted #GIS
August 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
#MappyMonday to you all!

I've been enjoying this 1794 map of The Country Round Manchester, the work of John Aikin (or Aiken).

The thicker black lines are, of course, canals rather than railway lines and this map captures the area as it approaches the height of "canal mania".

#MapMonday
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM