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Pictured: Francis & Son Electric and gas lighting, #London, c. 1920

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

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

Pictured: Stoney Stanton Road, #Coventry, 1972. Taken as part of a school project.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #CoventryAtlas #Humap

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

#EnglishHistory #WestMidlands #BritishHistory #MicroHistory #CulturalHeritage #Heritage

"Heinz was captured in Tobruk, Libya in June 1942. He remained in camps in Cyrenaica and Tripoli until January 1943..."

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

Learn more www.refugeemap.org/map/coll...

#WW2 #WorldWar2 #SecondWorldWar #NaziGermany #Holocaust #Shoah 

🔢 Feature update: now you can disable steps in our map crowdsourcing tool!

If your project does not use or require teams, links, dates etc you can now use this menu in admin > contribute > steps to disable them, giving your users a more streamlined experience.

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🎉 DARIAH-IE will be offering bursaries of up to €1,000 for 4 ECRs from Ireland to attend the DARIAH Annual Event in Rome, 26–29 May 2026. Applications will open next week. Keep an eye on our website for more details.
🔗 buff.ly/XLP3Knb

Tired of complex mapping software?

Humap is built to empower anyone to create, collaborate, and share stories with maps – perfect for researchers, students, & community projects! 🌍

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Image from www.facingthepast.org/

#GLAM #EdTech #GIS #HGIS

“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”
— #TerryPratchett

Ever wondered what types of trees you can find in #London, or where the underground rivers are?

@layersoflondon.bsky.social's got you covered: www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

#WednesdayWisdom #Maps #GIS

Pictured: Hans Holbein the Younger's (1497/8–1543) pen and ink drawing of Glarean (1515)

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Senfl's World, a musical history map of Renaissance Europe #Humap 

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

#EuropeanHistory #RenaissanceEurope #MusicHistory #GermanHistory

#citizenscience resource

New #ECS guidance highlights how to strengthen openness and diversity in #CitizenScience, drawing on seven pilots and ten library events across Europe (2023–2025).

Read more: zenodo.org/records/1832...

#PublicEngagement #OpenScience #Inclusion #Diversity

We’re delighted to announce that our next #Webinar will be delivered by Professor @cathamclarke.bsky.social 🥳

Professor Clarke will explore #Hampshire stories in her book A History of England in 25 Poems

📍 Zoom
🗓️ 18th March
⏰ 7pm

Register here 👉 hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/a-his...

Come join us @oralhistoryie.bsky.social for #oralhistory training in Maynooth!

⏰️ Only four days before the submissions for the #EADH2026 conference close!
❗️We are still waiting for your proposals
⌛️The deadline is 23:59 AOE on Friday, 27 February 2026.
📌 You can check the full CFP on our website: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
#digitalhumanities #dh #eadh #conference

This looks interesting. #environmentalhumanities
#climateheritage

NB: Registration for online attendance: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e0ac7b...

📢 We are welcoming guest submissions!

Our guideline for submissions:
digitalorientalist.com/submit-your-...

We are especially interested in expanding our coverage to Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Africa, and Sinological studies for any period after 500 CE!

Two women in winter coats and hats walking along the sidewalk among a crowd of people who are taking part in a strike. Fonds 1266, Item 23261.

A large crowd of men and women in winter coats and hats, gathered on a sidewalk outside the Fashion Building as they take part in a strike. Fonds 1266, Item 23262.

A large crowd of men and women in winter coats and hats, gathered on a sidewalk outside the Labor Lyceum building as they take part in a strike. Fonds 1266, Item 23260.

A large crowd of men and women in winter coats and hats, gathered on a sidewalk as they take part in a strike. Visible storefronts include Caplan's restaurant and a barber shop. Fonds 1266, Item 23263.

At 10am on February 25, 1931, members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) walked off the job. Highlighting poor working conditions, long hours, and low wages, hundreds of women continued their strike for two and a half months.

Antiquarian inked drawing of 3 men with horses approaching a set of circular earthworks with a cathedral and castle in the far distance

Antiquarian William Stukeley visited Chlorus Camp hillfort (now known as Figsbury Ring) #Wiltshire in 1723

His drawing shows an open landscape with Old Sarum castle / hillfort and Salisbury cathedral in the distance as well as 3 tricorn-wearing, horse riding gents on a day out

#HillfortsWednesday

Poster for Preservation & Migration Seminar Dublin 2026. Text includes the theme: "Digital time: show me how you do it! Recipes for audiovisual content longevity". The logos for the Digital Repository of Ireland, FIAT/IFTA and RTE appear at the bottom of the image.

⏰Less than one week left to submit your proposal for the @fiatifta.bsky.social (FIAT/IFTA) Preservation and Migration Seminar taking place in Dublin this June!

Find out more: fiatifta.org/pmc-seminar-...

#DigiPres #CallForProposals #DigitalPreservation #DigiPresNews

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Pictured: Burnyeat, Dalzell and Nicholson Ltd, 1968.

This record is from Mapping Memory, a visual history of Liverpool in the 1950s-1970s. See more www.mappingmemory.org/map/records/...

#HillfortsWednesday
Moel Arthur is a small circular hillfort crowning a very prominent hill overlooking the Vale of Clwyd to the south of Penycloddiau

(📷 © Crown Copyright: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales © Hawlfraint )

#Archaeology #History

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

#skybrarians #medlibs #publibs 📚

Seeking contributions for our next #Newsletter on:

💻 AI in the Heritage Sector 🏛️

Already using AI in your organisation, or wanting to start? Tell us about it in 300-500 words!

Submit your contributions to Katherine and Jane (k.a.krick@gmail.com & j.m.gallagher@leeds.ac.uk) by Friday 6th March.

A handwritten page in a notebook. It begins 'Friday May 29th 1840. Journey to London.' It then lists each stop on the journey and how many miles there was in between.

A double page from the same notebook continuing the details of the journey.

A modern document, showing a table which summarises the journey, giving place names and distances in miles.

Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, this fascinating notebook, shows that if you were travelling from Chesterfield to London in 1840 you would have changed coach 17 times and have needed 65 horses in total! The 158 mile journey would have taken 7 hours and 45 minutes.
#EYAConnections

We are VERY excited to open the 📮call for papers📮 for #RBSCG26, which takes as its theme:

✨A Sense of Place: Collections and communities in context✨

and will explore the influence of place on collections and collections on places.

🚨 EXCITING NEWS - SAVE THE DATE!

The History of Education Society conference is back for 2026.

🇮🇪 13-15 November 2026. Maynooth University, Ireland.

Find out more below 👇

historyofeducation.org.uk/conference/

Pictured: Queen Street Methodist Church, #Scarborough, 1923.

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

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

#History #Heritage #GLAM #Yorkshire

The ‘003 Racecourse Aliens Camp near #York was an internment camp for ‘enemy aliens’ and prisoners of war during #WorldWar2.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from @theajruk.bsky.social #Humap

See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...

#SecondWorldWar #WW2 #BritishHistory #Yorkshire

Pictured: the King and Queen of the Gasparilla Celebration with Their Attendants, Tampa, Florida, 1931

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

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"Just about here on the Dock Road at Coburg Dock, there were massive granary buildings. They were of varying ages but were very high, concrete buildings where grain was offloaded from the docks..."

www.mappingmemory.org/map/r...

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #MappingMemory #Humap

Tampa Through Time

🗺️ Crowdsourcing community history, showcasing digital collections, learning resources – what's happening on Humap?

Take a look!
tampa-through-time.humap.site/
amicablecontributors.com/
www.refugeemap.org/
www.scarboroughatlas.org/

#GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities