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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Highlight of 2027: honoured to be invited to write a preface to this incredible book. The most comprehensive treatment of the emerging discourse of the Blue Humanities to date. Out January 2027! 🩵 @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29/08/2026

Witness History: St Kilda Currently on BBC Sounds: In August 1930 the last inhabitants left their homes on the remote Scottish islands of St Kilda. Simon Watts has been listening to some of their stories, as recorded in the BBC archives www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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BBC World Service - Witness History, St Kilda

The remote Scottish islands whose last inhabitants were evacuated in August 1930

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British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We are coming to Edinburgh this September! We’re bringing the Map Curators Group 60th Anniversary celebrations, plus - due to demand - our popular GeoViz sessions for Day 1! Watch for a packed conference agenda for Day 2, hosted at The Registers of Scotland. www.cartography.org.uk/annual-confe...

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 19/08/2026

📢 Nottingham! Join us for Geo-Explorers, after school club for geology enthusiasts! The club for children aged 8 to 11 and is based at our main campus in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. The clubs run in five-week cohorts and costs £30. Sign your child up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/geo-explor...

Some children and a member of BGS staff crowd around a tin tray with what appears to be jelly inside are placed on two upturned buckets. Two of the children are wearing high vis vests and one is in safety goggles.

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jiangxiuyun.bsky.social @jiangxiuyun.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Some Distinctive Features of Marine Cartography: The Cartographic Journal: Vol 8, No 1

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hooray for the ocean! 🌊 June 8th is World Ocean Day, but most events are this weekend. Tomorrow (Saturday June 6th) the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London is holding their amazing free annual event, with LOADS of great stuff for families: live music & dance, stories & more. Do go!

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World Ocean Day

A family-friendly celebration of our ocean at the National Maritime Museum

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 29/05/2026

Led by Professor Stephanie Porras and Dr. Devin Fitzgerald, the project seeks to build a new transregional field connecting the Asian Pacific, Latin America, and Europe between 1565 and 1815 through print and book history. (3/7)

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Call for Participants / Convocatoria para participantes - UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies

Prints across the Pacific, 1565-1815 | Getty Connecting Art Histories Project 2026–28. Prints across the Pacific seeks to bring together early to mid-career print scholars based in Southeast Asia and....

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📣 #CallforPapers 📣 Working on how Central and Eastern Europe participated in #EarlyModern global exchanges? Check the #CfP for the conference Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500-1800) 👉 loom.ly/68-mKyU ⏰ Submit your proposal by 15 June 2026

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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Coming soon! 🌊 #EnvHum #BlueHums

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Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We have a rare and exciting opportunity to join our team as Director of Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College. Application deadline is 9am on 29th June 2026. Please share this with people you think would be interested.

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Director of the Churchill Archives Centre | Churchill College, Cambridge

Application deadline: 09:00 am BST on Monday 29th June

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Anna Iltnere @sealibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

in May, I published an invitation: Write a letter to the sea. the eighth letter (in a form of a postcard) is written by @stevementz.bsky.social from Branford, Connecticut, USA. Steve is a longtime friend of the Sea Library and a godfather of the Blue Humanities: sea-library.com/2025/08/20/0...

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008: A Letter to the Sea

In May, I sent out an invitation to sea communities all around the world: Write a letter to the sea. The eighth letter (in a form of a postcard) arrived on July 28, 2025 – written by Steve Mentz fr…

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British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

*Teatime Talk* My Cartographic Journey: Themes, Approaches, and Reflections. Speaker: Atlas Guo, University of Wisconsin–Madison Date: Thursday 14th May 2026 Time: Join from 18:45 for a 19:00 start. Venue: Virtual (Zoom) www.cartography.org.uk/teatime-talks

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LSE Department of International History @lsehy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Dr Ron Po recently spoke at the ISHMap Conference, hosted in Paris. His talk explored the significance of several long-overlooked sea charts from the long eighteenth century, and examined how these visual sources can offer fresh insight into the history of late imperial China. #china #history #LSE

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Deadline approaching for the ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History. In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!! Nominations due 31 Dec 2025. #maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️

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Prize for Projects in Map History 2026

The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History. The ISHMap Prize in for Pr…

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hello Cambridge! I’ll be speaking about the delights and importance of the ocean on June 18th at Churchill College. Free tickets available now (but you do need to register): www.chu.cam.ac.uk/event/the-ma...

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The Master's Book Club - Churchill College

Join us to hear from Churchill College alumna and Honorary Fellow Prof. Helen Czerski in conversation with the Master of Churchill College, Prof. Sharon Peacock, as they discuss Helen’s award-winning ...

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BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

BBC Radio 3 The Essay: The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe 1/10. Jerry Brotton explores the short and turbulent life of Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe.

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

What happens when you put experts, prescient topics, engaged audiences, and #maps together? A Map Room Conversation! Our Area special section is now available #openaccess #geography #skystorians 🗃️

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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 02/04/2026

Taking a closer look at a 17th-century map... The Kunyu Wagnuo Quantu (c.1644) was created by Chinese scholars and artisans after interactions with Western-style cartography. Earlier this week, our Collections team and expert conservators took it out of its custom-built case to examine it up close.

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Fascinating, FREE talk from Lauren Beck, “Cartography and Sovereignty: examining how Canada’s border were defined—and perceived—from the outside” The 2026 Malcolm Young Lecture from the International Map Collectors Society. #maps #freetalk #skystorians 🗃️

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IMCoS 2026 Malcolm Young Lecture with Dr. Lauren Beck

Cartography and sovereignty: examining how Canada’s borders were defined—and perceived—from the outside.

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Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

www.newberry.org/calendar/fou... for Renaissance Studies

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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We're in this! (As well as lots of other fine folk...) THE DEATH AND LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Written & presented by Professor Jerry Brotton On BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds – ten 14 minute episodes, releasing 20 April - 1 May, at 9.45pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v6z8

Promotional BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds flyer for "The Essay: The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe", written and presented by Professor Jerry Brotton.
Mon-Fri at 21.45, Radio 3. 20th April – 1st May.
Produced by Melissa FitzGerald.
Christopher Marlowe read by Justice Ritchie.
Other voices read by Tonderai Munyevu.
The image shows Professor Brotton standing with his arms folded, looking up at a Tudor portrait of a man with arms folded.

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