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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Simple and stylish covers from 1964 Ordnance Survey maps of Ancient Britain. Dun Carloway broch on the Isle of Lewis on the northern sheet, a Stonehenge trilithon the southern. Then the sites on the maps themselves, Stonehenge in a crowded part of Wiltshire #maps #ordnancesurvey @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Charlbury, on the Oxford–Worcester line, has 343,000 passengers a year and retains its 1853 Brunel-style station building. The National Rail Awards, organised by Rail magazine, are described as the ‘Railway Oscars’.

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Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What are you up to on Sunday? Would be good to see you, if you're around. Come and look at some maps! 😃

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social considers eclipse maps from the C18 to the C20 @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map. Oxford's Edmond #Halley also features. Learn more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social @bricmics.bsky.social

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The #FIFAWorldCup starts today. Here's my map to mark the event. The Beautiful Game #WorldCup 2026 Edition - a cartogram showing all-time appearances at the tournament with a whole host of other details. Download the hi-res here: carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...

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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Triangulation is a way of working out distances measuring angles of a triangle, from two known points of distance you can then measure the third, and so on. When on maps it also creates lovely patterns, as on this map of the States from 1940, Florida and across Chesapeake Bay @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🏆 BCS Awards 2026 🏆 Could you be the next winner of the Peter Jolly Members Map Award or the Dennis Maps Children’s Map Award? Get your entries in asap before 14th June! lnkd.in/d867AMC

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Excited for this upcoming conference! Submit an abstract if you are interested in #maps and #archives. #skystorians #AcademicSky 🗃️

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Banbury Road bike shop Summertown Cycles is to become Giant Oxford, selling bikes from Giant, the world’s largest cycle manufacturer. The shop is currently undergoing a refit and will reopen on Tuesday. www.giant-oxford.co.uk/gb

Summertown Cycles (photo from Google Street View)

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British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🏆 BCS Awards 2026 🏆 Could you be the next winner of the Ordnance Survey Student Award or the Ian Mumford Student Research Award? Get your entries in asap before 14th June! lnkd.in/d867AMC @ordnancesurvey

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great meeting of @bricmics.bsky.social today in Kidbrooke and Greenwich. Lots of #map discussion - thanks to Tim and his colleagues. Plus some magnificent cartographic exhibits on view.

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Action shots from the recent #TOSCA Field Trip at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk where #DavidFletcher promoted his new book, 'The Queen's Atlas' on #ChristopherSaxton with lots of original Saxton #Maps, along with later derivatives. @bcsmaps.bsky.social @imagomundi.bsky.social #BodleianLibraryPublishing

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Some mystery #map locations in this @bodleian.ox.ac.uk blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social. Where is #Valhalla? @ukhodigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy has produced some interesting training charts - see more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. Or a Canadian take on #LasPalmas? @bcsmaps.bsky.social

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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Today is World Book Day. Surveyor and cartographer Mark Pierce has included himself in his famous map of Laxton, 1635, writing and reading the book he has made to go with his map. Read more and see this remarkable map here storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/32b7... @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @debbietheduck.bsky.social takes us to #Collo in #Algeria with a C19 French chart, examining a planned settlement which appears to have occupied an existing village. See more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Time for another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social exploring the C17 work of John Speed, emphasising his imagery of historical events. Go to blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ to find out what (or who) is being transported here ... @bcsmaps.bsky.social @imagomundi.bsky.social

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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

In Speed's atlas, 1611, is this image, with text 'But success of warr altering Maud the Emperese to save her owne life adventured to throwe the host her enimie, layde in a coffin fayned to be dead, and soe was carryed in a horse litter from Winchester'. Maud's escape was in 1141 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Join us next month to find out how Canterbury's past was investigated for the new Historic Towns Atlas! This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-i... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

And to think ... That was my office from 2010 to 2014!

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Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

We are so looking forward to this! Please join us tomorrow from 7pm.

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just spotted this new map at #Charlbury station. Congrats to @oxcrp.bsky.social and @gwr.com for some eye catching cartography. @bcsmaps.bsky.social @openstreetmap.bsky.social

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 09/01/2026

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

Historical map of Oxford from 1751, featuring detailed illustrations of the city layout with labeled streets and notable landmarks such as colleges. Insets showcase panoramic views and significant architectural structures at Magdalen College.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 23/12/2025

Reindeer appear in more places than you might expect... including maps! These festive friends are watching mapmakers at work, decorating historic landscapes as well as popping up in modern tourist and children’s maps.🎄 Read more: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2024/1…

Historical map featuring labeled regions such as the Great River of New England, with illustrated animals like bears and beavers, and the River St. Lawrence.

Antique map featuring a decorative cartouche with a depiction of five figures in traditional dress, including two seated on moose, accompanied by a banner reading 'Historia Canadensis occulta.'

Tourists enjoy a reindeer sleigh ride through a snowy landscape in Finland, with a map showing major Finnish cities in the background.

Illustration of a reindeer standing on a map, with the Arctic Ocean labeled above and an icon of mushrooms below.

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Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Big thanks to The Scarborough News for their article on our upcoming historical map of Scarborough. If you'd like to donate to the project, you can do so here: shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/donate

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cycle.travel @cycle.travel · 24/12/2025

cycle.travel now has a fresh new look on iPhone and Android – clearer, easier to use, and with new features such as clickable route highlights. Take a look on your app store of choice! iPhone: apps.apple.com/app/id161963... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 21/12/2025

Today marks the #WinterSolstice ❄️ This illustrated page, ‘Erde und Sonne’, from a German atlas by Justus Perthes (c.1910), shows how Earth’s tilt and orbit create the solstices, equinoxes and seasons. 📜 | Bodleian Map Room Blog More at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2024/0…

Close-up of a circular diagram showing the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. A label marks the Winter Solstice, explaining that it occurs when the North Pole tilts furthest from the Sun, creating the shortest day and longest night.

Diagram showing the Earth’s 23.5° axial tilt in relation to its orbit around the Sun. Overlaid text explains that this tilt causes the changing seasons, noting that without it there would be no summer or winter.

Section of the orbit diagram focusing on the position of Earth on 21 March, marking the Spring Equinox. Overlaid text explains that day and night are equal at this point and that medieval scholars associated it with the first days of Creation.

Section of the orbit diagram highlighting March 25, known as Lady Day. Overlaid text explains that it was once considered the first day of the year until 1751 and marks the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, nine months before Christmas.

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Delighted to be continuing as a research assistant on the London on the Eve of the Great Fire project. To support the creation of this Atlas and Gazetteer of 1665-6 London then consider a donation to the project. @historictownstrust.bsky.social 🗃️ shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/donate

Morgan's 1682 map of London. Black and white, showing Tower Bridge, Wapping the Thames and Bermondsey.

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Our next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog takes us to a wintry C18 #Norway with @debbietheduck.bsky.social. JB Homann's map of #Akershus also takes us underground. Explore detailed mine workings nearby modern #Oslo. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2025/12... @bcsmaps.bsky.social @imagomundi.bsky.social

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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today is International Mountain Day. Here are covers for Snowdon (1,085 metres), for a Soviet map of the Teberda region of the Caucasus mountains (over 4000 m in places) and of the Zermatt region of Switzerland with the Matterhorn, 4,478 m, on the cover. Happy climbing everyone. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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British Cartographic Society @bcsmaps.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Thank you to Caroline Gomm from HarperCollins who presented the Collins Bartholomew award, and to Jim Goldsmith, BCS Awards officer, who presented the Stanfords award. Our BCS President Paul Naylor then presented the overall “Best of the Best” BCS Award to the recipients.

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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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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A grim 'X marks the spot'. Wilson is Major Allan Wilson, who led a small unit of British South African soldiers in the 1st Matabele War. On the 3rd and 4th of December 1893 they came up against a much larger force of Matabele warriors along the Shangani River, in modern Zimbabwe. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Impressive new official UK online railway map. Appears to be vector tiles, Maplibre JS, manual selection of stations for each zoom level, hints for label placement baked into the tiles. No authorship information that I can see, but someone deserves plaudits for this. railmap.nationalrail.co.uk

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An interactive and zoomable version of the entire National Rail network in Great Britain. Showing all lines, all stations and all Train Company routes.

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Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Here's an interesting variation on D.I.Y. From a map of Europe at the start of the War, 1914, an invitation from the Financial Times to fill in boundaries based on predicted peace terms. Offered at a time when 'it will be all over by Christmas' I wonder if anyone got even close? @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Our next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #maps blog by @stuartackland.bsky.social features the "false" map of #Oxford from 1644. Look at this and be prepared to be confused! blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. When is north not north? And who was Anthony Wood? @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bbcoxford.bsky.social

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

RIP Jimmy Cliff, musical titan, reggae giant, who also wrote and sang this, the unofficial anthem to audax cycling. For me it has to be the rarer, R&B arrangement. @audaxuk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2zs...

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Jimmy Cliff - Hard Road To Travel - Federal Records RARE Soul version

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Thursday at 16:30 (UK time) - our 1st online #TOSCA of 25/26: @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social on 'Mapping sense of place: Travels and Maps of May Morris'. Book your place at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @bcsmaps.bsky.social @imagomundi.bsky.social

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

👀🙌 "6,652 maps associated with the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain (ca. 1958-1974)... primarily 1:10,560 National Grid sheets, were hand annotated with different colours, shadings and abbreviations to indicate land use, such as arable, settlement, industrial, grassland or woodland."

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Jan Trachet @jtrachet.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Our article on #Mapathon 1571 is now online at the Leventhal Map & Education Center! 👉 www.leventhalmap.org/articles/map... This publication was made possible through the Allmaps Research Fellowships. Thanks to my co-authors at #GhentCDH and #Allmaps, and @bplmaps.bsky.social for the support.

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Mapathon 1571: Building Community Cartography Through Collective Georeferencing - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

How a sixteenth-century map reconnects contemporary audiences with its historical landscape

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Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We're delighted to introduce our brand new tote bag! We've partnered with the excellent folks at Teemill to create a premium quality bag made from 100% sustainable organic cotton. What better way to look stylish and promote your local heritage? Order online shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/htt-...

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

There is still time to apply for one of our 50+ Visiting Fellowships @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the 2026-27 academic year! A vibrant interdisciplinary research centre in the heart of one of the world’s great libraries!

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Mapping Identities Conference 9/02/26-10/02/26 Call for Papers. We warmly invite expressions of interest in the form of 250-word abstracts and 100-word short biographies Wednesday 17/12/25 tinyurl.com/3nnacccd

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Last chance! Abstracts due tomorrow for the International Conference on the History of Cartography! #cfp #ichc2026 #skystorians #maps 🗃️

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

WRFM, the local radio station formerly known as Witney Radio, will be heard on digital radio (DAB) in West Oxfordshire after winning a licence from Ofcom. The station already has FM licences in West Oxfordshire and DAB in Oxford city.

A decidedly non-digital radio (Alan Rodriguez at Unsplash)

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Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A different sort of commute today ... The rim split on my front wheel, a 4-mile walk from the nearest train station. Thanks to @gwr.com for getting me to work and @blenheimpalace.bsky.social for a scenic walk.

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Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Our YouTube channel has beefed up for the winter! You can now watch lots of brilliant talks about mapmaking and the history of Britain's towns and cities. Please subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@hist_towns

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An educational charity working to map the urban histories of Great Britain.

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