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🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling

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#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
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🗺️ Hi Bluesky! We're Humap, a map platform built with and for #GLAMA, #DigitalHumanities, and #CitizenScience

Here are some of the amazing projects on our platform 🧵

An archival history of #Tampa #Florida created by the University of South Florida tampa-through-time.humap.site

#USHistory #USA
Pictured: Why They Call this Sunset Beach at #Tampa, #Florida, 1930

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from #Tampa Through Time, created by the University of South Florida Library

See more tampa-through-time.humap.si...

#USA #USHistory #USAHistory #Tourism #GLAM #DigitalHumanities
December 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"The witness stand, long table and chairs in Lancaster Castle's Grand Jury Room were crafted by Gillow of Lancaster in the 18th century, likely out of slavery-produced mahogany..."

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #FacingThePast #Humap

See more www.facingthepast.org/map/r...
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Pictured: submarines at #London Docks, during the #GeneralStrike of 1926.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Humap

See more www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

#DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage #GLAM
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🌍 Use our Call To Action and Links features to direct your audience to other places on the web.

These can link to Humap or elsewhere, from research papers to local history sites and databases.

Visuals from www.refugeemap.org/ @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Pictured: Van der Velde Ltd. on Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne

See more unejh.humap.site/map/record...

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @northeastmuseums.bsky.social #Humap

Take a look unejh.humap.site/map/record...
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colours show the realisation of great dreams.”
- Gilbert Grosvenor

Explore historic #Scarborough at www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma... @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social

#WednesdayWisdom #Maps #GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Pictured: Earlsdon Branch Library, #Coventry, unveiling of memorial tablet.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #CoventryAtlas #Humap.

See more at www.coventryatlas.org/map/
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Interested in old maps? My new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' Short Course will introduce the history of cartography, how to find and work with old maps online, and even how to georeference historical maps! We'll also get hands-on with map collections, plus lecture from @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Announcing IHR Discovery Courses: Historic Maps, Townscape & Architecture, and Archaeology for Historians. Suitable for historians working in all contexts, or anyone looking for new learning experiences, and inspiration. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Only 23 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Petrarch, Sistine Music, Cicero, Suetonious, Arnold de Villanova, Aristotle, Ge'ez liturgy and amulets, and a Fransiscan Missale... and more
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 48 of 2025
A total of twenty-three manuscripts were digitized in the past week. Unusually Capp.Sist contributed the most, with eight manuscripts digitized. Following that were the expected fonds, Ott.lat with s...
www.wiglaf.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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A #tinyjoy to bring some cheer on what is a grey, wintery day in the Boston area:

A late #18thc snuffbox with the motto "The Eyes have pow'r/ To kill or cure."

Be careful, all, of basilisk women with doves.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This January, discover the timeless tradition of storytelling in the collections of the Cathedral Library and Archives, from creation accounts to tales of medieval pilgrimages, saints’ lives and daring quests for the Holy Grail.

📘 15 Jan
📘 1pm - 3pm
📘 Free drop-in session

bit.ly/in-focus-stories
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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A very interesting (if somewhat grim) document well-discussed.

#MaritimeHistory

globalmaritimehistory.com/discuss-a-do...
December 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Day 2 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:

🌊 marram — as in the "marram grass" which thrives in coastal dunes

A Scandinavian loan (< marr ‘sea’ + hálmr ‘straw/reed’), known as "marehalm" along Norwegian and Danish coasts.

Photo: Marram grass, Alan Hughes (CC BY-SA 2.0)
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University
Start your UK &amp; international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Happy #TrailsTuesday!

Learn about women's suffrage in #Coventry with today's #trail from the #CoventryAtlas: www.coventryatlas.org/map/t...

#WalkingTrails #History #EnglishHistory #WestMidlands #BritishHistory #CoventryHistory #CulturalHeritage #Heritage #Suffragettes #Feminism
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Pictured: the Bote de Zamora, a pyxis commissioned in 964CE by a caliph to celebrate the birth of his first child.

This item was contributed to @europeana.bsky.social's Twin It! exhibition by Spain's Museo Arqueológico Nacional

Take a look at it in #3D at www.europeana.eu/nl/exhibit...
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Pictured: Georg Rhaw (1488–1548), a German composer and publisher of music.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Senfl's World, created by the University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna #Humap 

See more senfls-world.humap.site/map...

#EuropeanHistory #RenaissanceEurope
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Happy #MappyMonday!

You can find gorgeous map of #HillsboroughCounty, #Florida in 1882 over on #Tampa Through Time, created by the University of South Florida

Take a look tampa-through-time.humap.si...

#USA #UnitedStates #GIS #HGIS #MapMonday #USHistory
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Ilse was sent on a Kindertransport from #Vienna to #England in July 1939. 

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap

See more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...

#WW2 #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #BritishHistory #AustrianHistory
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Pictured: Derek Jarman (1942-1994) - film director, artist, diarist, author and tireless activist for #LGBTQ+ rights

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #IslingtonsPride #Humap

See more islingtonspride.com/humap/

#LGBTQ #LGBT #London #LGBTQHistory #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"How does a landscape of Prehistoric artefacts reflect the experience of place, heritage, and changing meanings for people who left traces thousands of years ago, and for people now?"
-Dr Samantha Brummage, Prehistoric England: Inherited Places

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Prehistoric England: Inherited Places | Humap
In the first Humap guest blog, Dr Samantha Brummage explores the inherited places of prehistoric England.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM