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
24.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.02.2026 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
29.01.2026 16:11 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.
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
And to think ... That was my office from 2010 to 2014!
29.01.2026 13:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are so looking forward to this! Please join us tomorrow from 7pm.
26.01.2026 12:16 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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
21.01.2026 09:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Brilliant!
09.01.2026 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
A map of the University and city from 1751, much of it still recognisable today! 🗺️
Shelmark: Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 12
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.
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: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2024/12/18/looks-like-reindeer/
A newspaper article.
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
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...
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.
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: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2024/03/19/spring/
Morgan's 1682 map of London. Black and white, showing Tower Bridge, Wapping the Thames and Bermondsey.
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
20.12.2025 13:24 — 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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
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
11.12.2025 09:37 — 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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.
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps team delighted to host our friends from @bcsmaps.bsky.social & @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social today. Should be a great afternoon. @stanfordstravel.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social
05.12.2025 14:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 🗃️
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
02.12.2025 09:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Impressive 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
30.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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
28.11.2025 10:11 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
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...
24.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
25.11.2025 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👀🙌 "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."
24.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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-...
13.11.2025 21:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It's not raining inside TripelB! #belgianfrites #baconbaguette #bitterballen #frikandel #coffee #belgianbeer #belgianbeercafe #worcestershirehour #stormclaudia
14.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0There 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!
12.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 23 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 1
