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"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
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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
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🌍 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
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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
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“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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pictured: C&A, #Liverpool, 1947.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r...

#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible" ~ Rosita Forbes

Discover #London in 1720 at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social

#Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Pictured: The 10th North Riding Battalion Home Guard, #Scarborough, #WorldWarOne

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

See more www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma...

#FirstWorldWar #WW1 #Yorkshire #NorthYorkshire #History
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Joseph and Margaret Kagan, survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuania, came to the UK in 1946.

They established Kagan Textiles Ltd. and opened a small factory in Elland.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from The UK Holocaust Map, created by @theajruk.bsky.social

See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Pictured: David Nachmann, around 1934. He was allowed to return to Chemnitz from Poland to wrap up his affairs, but was then arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

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

Learn more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Trade, first beginning in 1990, was #London’s first #gay after-hours club night, hosted at Turnmills nightclub.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #IslingtonsPride #Humap

See more islingtonspride.com/humap/

#Islington #BritishHistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, intently studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."
-Bill Bryson

Pictured: Europe in 1912, from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap

Explore at www.refugeemap.org/map/over...
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Pictured: Kirkland Jennings, Hardman Street, #Liverpool 1973.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/r...

#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #UK #UnitedKingdom #IndustrialHistory
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Pictured: Clifton Street Mineral Water Company Staff, #Scarborough, 1911

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

See more www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma...
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This #TrailsTuesday take a tour through the historic Crystal Palace park over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social

www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

#London #Trails #WalkingTrails #CrystalPalace #SouthLondon #Football #FootballHistory
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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“Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers

They said for King and country we should do as we were bid.
They said old soldiers never die - but plenty young ones did."

Freddie Gilroy was one of the first soldiers to relieve Belsen-Bergen.

www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Pictured: a World War I Memorial in #Tampa, #Florida, 1921.

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

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

#Humap #USA #USHistory
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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#MappyMonday! Take a look at this survey of London, 1824-1826.

This map shows both the growth of London and its contemporary administrative structure.

Check it out on @layersoflondon.bsky.social , c/o MOLA and @britishlibrary.bsky.social

www.layersoflondon.org/map/...
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM