Katie Parker
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Last chance! Abstracts due tomorrow for the International Conference on the History of Cartography! #cfp #ichc2026 #skystorians #maps 🗃️
Don’t forget to submit your proposals for #ichc2026! Who wouldn’t want to talk about #maps in Prague?
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
ichc2026.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Last chance! Abstracts due tomorrow for the International Conference on the History of Cartography! #cfp #ichc2026 #skystorians #maps 🗃️
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Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
www.rmg.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.
Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live!
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Sunderland Collection Map Symposium at RGS - 30 October
The Sunderland Collection Symposium at the Royal Geographical Society, 30 October 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Missed the Challenging Maps and Exploration Symposium? Don’t worry, the videos of the panels are now live!
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Enjoy all the discussions of #maps, #empire, Indigeneity, archives, and contemporary exploration. #skystorians 🗃️
Crazy class dodging the crowds to learn about Greenwich Millenium Village, public art, and creating community and a destination.
Sometimes you just have to teach amongst a #five concert. #amteaching
Sometimes you just have to teach amongst a #five concert. #amteaching
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Crazy class dodging the crowds to learn about Greenwich Millenium Village, public art, and creating community and a destination.
Sometimes you just have to teach amongst a #five concert. #amteaching
Sometimes you just have to teach amongst a #five concert. #amteaching
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C20's Cooling Towers selected by The Modern House as one of six new titles on the brilliance of 20th and 21st century design.
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
C20's Cooling Towers selected by The Modern House as one of six new titles on the brilliance of 20th and 21st century design.
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov.
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
Queer Maritimes
From tours about merpeople to creative workshops on personalised maps, discover some of the LGBTQ+ histories connected to Royal Museums Greenwich's collections
www.rmg.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov.
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
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We’ve uncovered a new species of snake! 🐍
Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived 37 million years ago and has a strange mix of features that suggest it's an early caenophidian, the group containing 80% of living snakes.
Discover what it reveals about snake evolution 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived 37 million years ago and has a strange mix of features that suggest it's an early caenophidian, the group containing 80% of living snakes.
Discover what it reveals about snake evolution 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
“Weird” new species of ancient fossil snake discovered in southern England | Natural History Museum
An extinct snake named Paradoxophidion richardoweni has slithered its way out of obscurity.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We’ve uncovered a new species of snake! 🐍
Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived 37 million years ago and has a strange mix of features that suggest it's an early caenophidian, the group containing 80% of living snakes.
Discover what it reveals about snake evolution 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived 37 million years ago and has a strange mix of features that suggest it's an early caenophidian, the group containing 80% of living snakes.
Discover what it reveals about snake evolution 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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Terrific piece. Read the whole thing.
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Terrific piece. Read the whole thing.
You can listen to me and Jerry Brotton discuss the atlases of Battista Agnese, map collecting and more in this episode of What’s Your Map, from The Sunderland Collection. #podcast #maps #skystorians 🗃️
S4 Ep1: Silver Sails: Following the Galleon Route with Dr. Katie Parker
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November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
You can listen to me and Jerry Brotton discuss the atlases of Battista Agnese, map collecting and more in this episode of What’s Your Map, from The Sunderland Collection. #podcast #maps #skystorians 🗃️
Kicked off the Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c. 1750–1850) at Seaplane Harbour, part of the Estonian Maritime Museum. It’s a fantastic museum! 1/#museums 🗃️
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Kicked off the Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c. 1750–1850) at Seaplane Harbour, part of the Estonian Maritime Museum. It’s a fantastic museum! 1/#museums 🗃️
Have you put out a map exhibition, digital map tool, a map teaching resource, and other map project that isn’t a traditional publication? Submit it to win a prize!! #maps #skystorians 🗃️
📣📣 PRIZE 📣📣
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.
Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
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.
Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
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…
ishmap.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Have you put out a map exhibition, digital map tool, a map teaching resource, and other map project that isn’t a traditional publication? Submit it to win a prize!! #maps #skystorians 🗃️
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For the #histSTM list
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For the #histSTM list
Don’t forget to submit your proposals for #ichc2026! Who wouldn’t want to talk about #maps in Prague?
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
ichc2026.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Don’t forget to submit your proposals for #ichc2026! Who wouldn’t want to talk about #maps in Prague?
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
Loved the vibrant #DiadelosMuertos festival @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social . Inclusive, educational and such a relief to get delicious tacos in #london.
The Horniman is a great museum that fosters community. Always impressed when we visit. #museums
The Horniman is a great museum that fosters community. Always impressed when we visit. #museums
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Loved the vibrant #DiadelosMuertos festival @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social . Inclusive, educational and such a relief to get delicious tacos in #london.
The Horniman is a great museum that fosters community. Always impressed when we visit. #museums
The Horniman is a great museum that fosters community. Always impressed when we visit. #museums
The Challenging Maps & Exploration symposium is in full swing!
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Challenging Maps & Exploration symposium is in full swing!
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
Due to a schedule shift, taught in the evening tonight. We discussed Brutalism and High Tech, but I only got photos of the Exchange and Walbrook.
Walked from Barbican to the Gherkin, which was suitably spooky for this Halloween week. 👻 🎃
Walked from Barbican to the Gherkin, which was suitably spooky for this Halloween week. 👻 🎃
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Due to a schedule shift, taught in the evening tonight. We discussed Brutalism and High Tech, but I only got photos of the Exchange and Walbrook.
Walked from Barbican to the Gherkin, which was suitably spooky for this Halloween week. 👻 🎃
Walked from Barbican to the Gherkin, which was suitably spooky for this Halloween week. 👻 🎃
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New! I had great fun talking w/ @drjoannepaul.bsky.social about how she embraces creativity and artistry and how she writes vividly about Tudor history. If you've ever dreamed of writing a history that reads almost like a novel, you're going to love this episode. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New! I had great fun talking w/ @drjoannepaul.bsky.social about how she embraces creativity and artistry and how she writes vividly about Tudor history. If you've ever dreamed of writing a history that reads almost like a novel, you're going to love this episode. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...
Colleagues and I had a great time on a Parakeet Tour of Hyde Park led by Christie Swallow. What is an ‘invasive species’? What is ‘wild’? Loved the integration of imperial and environmental history.
We are all paracologists now (with pins!) 🗃️
We are all paracologists now (with pins!) 🗃️
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Colleagues and I had a great time on a Parakeet Tour of Hyde Park led by Christie Swallow. What is an ‘invasive species’? What is ‘wild’? Loved the integration of imperial and environmental history.
We are all paracologists now (with pins!) 🗃️
We are all paracologists now (with pins!) 🗃️
Lovely bunch of @notredame.bsky.social students came to the reading room today to encounter objects in the history of exploration. I never tire of their excitement at seeing historical objects (Speke’s sextant was popular today)
And thanks for the hat!
And thanks for the hat!
October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Lovely bunch of @notredame.bsky.social students came to the reading room today to encounter objects in the history of exploration. I never tire of their excitement at seeing historical objects (Speke’s sextant was popular today)
And thanks for the hat!
And thanks for the hat!
Brilliant visit to @queerbritain.bsky.social ! Loved the permanent exhibition and Top by Claye Bowler, a trip through transition in the form of a museum store. What a great community space, resource, and collection! Visit if you are near King’s Cross! #museums #skystorians 🗃️
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Brilliant visit to @queerbritain.bsky.social ! Loved the permanent exhibition and Top by Claye Bowler, a trip through transition in the form of a museum store. What a great community space, resource, and collection! Visit if you are near King’s Cross! #museums #skystorians 🗃️
It was all steel, plate glass, and railroads today with the #architecture students. Dodged rain and wind at St Pancras International, King’s Cross, and Coal Drops Yard. #amteaching
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It was all steel, plate glass, and railroads today with the #architecture students. Dodged rain and wind at St Pancras International, King’s Cross, and Coal Drops Yard. #amteaching
Popped into Word on the Water after teaching and nabbed Africonomics by Bronwen Everill. Excited to read this much nominated book by a brilliant scholar! #books #skystorians #bookshop #london
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Popped into Word on the Water after teaching and nabbed Africonomics by Bronwen Everill. Excited to read this much nominated book by a brilliant scholar! #books #skystorians #bookshop #london
Learned so much from Kumail Rajani & John P Cooper about the late-18th-century Gujarati sea chart in the @rgsibg.bsky.social collections. You can listen to this and other Be Inspired lectures via our talks on demand service. #skystorians #histcart #maps 🗃️
Rehabilitating a Gujarati Red Sea and Gulf of Aden chart
Join John P Cooper and Kumail Rajani as they explore a 19th-century Gujarati chart of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from the Society’s Collections.
www.rgs.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Learned so much from Kumail Rajani & John P Cooper about the late-18th-century Gujarati sea chart in the @rgsibg.bsky.social collections. You can listen to this and other Be Inspired lectures via our talks on demand service. #skystorians #histcart #maps 🗃️
Had a lovely class on Gothic Revival #architecture and the rise of museums in the #c19 last week. It was made all the better by a #sumo sighting at the Albert Memorial. #amteaching #histarch
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Had a lovely class on Gothic Revival #architecture and the rise of museums in the #c19 last week. It was made all the better by a #sumo sighting at the Albert Memorial. #amteaching #histarch
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Congratulations to the authors shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize—“celebrating writing grounded in high-quality research-works that will inspire readers to deepen their understanding of people, society & cultures across time & place.” www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...
British Academy Book Prize
The British Academy Book Prize rewards works of non-fiction, based on exceptional research and written for the general reader, that deepen our understanding of people, societies and cultures and their...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congratulations to the authors shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize—“celebrating writing grounded in high-quality research-works that will inspire readers to deepen their understanding of people, society & cultures across time & place.” www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-acad...