Another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social considers eclipse maps from the C18 to the C20 @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map. Oxford's Edmond #Halley also features. Learn more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/ @bcsmaps.bsky.social @bricmics.bsky.social

The #FIFAWorldCup starts today. Here's my map to mark the event. The Beautiful Game #WorldCup 2026 Edition - a cartogram showing all-time appearances at the tournament with a whole host of other details. Download the hi-res here: carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...

Triangulation is a way of working out distances measuring angles of a triangle, from two known points of distance you can then measure the third, and so on. When on maps it also creates lovely patterns, as on this map of the States from 1940, Florida and across Chesapeake Bay @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

🏆 BCS Awards 2026 🏆 Could you be the next winner of the Peter Jolly Members Map Award or the Dennis Maps Children’s Map Award? Get your entries in asap before 14th June! lnkd.in/d867AMC

Excited for this upcoming conference! Submit an abstract if you are interested in #maps and #archives. #skystorians #AcademicSky 🗃️

British Records Association@britrecs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢Call for papers for our 2026 conference ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’ on Tuesday 24th November 2026. Abstracts submission deadline 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026. For more information: www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/news/call-fo...

Banbury Road bike shop Summertown Cycles is to become Giant Oxford, selling bikes from Giant, the world’s largest cycle manufacturer. The shop is currently undergoing a refit and will reopen on Tuesday. www.giant-oxford.co.uk/gb

🏆 BCS Awards 2026 🏆 Could you be the next winner of the Ordnance Survey Student Award or the Ian Mumford Student Research Award? Get your entries in asap before 14th June! lnkd.in/d867AMC @ordnancesurvey

Great meeting of @bricmics.bsky.social today in Kidbrooke and Greenwich. Lots of #map discussion - thanks to Tim and his colleagues. Plus some magnificent cartographic exhibits on view.

Action shots from the recent #TOSCA Field Trip at the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk where #DavidFletcher promoted his new book, 'The Queen's Atlas' on #ChristopherSaxton with lots of original Saxton #Maps, along with later derivatives. @bcsmaps.bsky.social @imagomundi.bsky.social #BodleianLibraryPublishing

Some mystery #map locations in this @bodleian.ox.ac.uk blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social. Where is #Valhalla? @ukhodigital.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy has produced some interesting training charts - see more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/. Or a Canadian take on #LasPalmas? @bcsmaps.bsky.social

Today is World Book Day. Surveyor and cartographer Mark Pierce has included himself in his famous map of Laxton, 1635, writing and reading the book he has made to go with his map. Read more and see this remarkable map here storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/32b7... @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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

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

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

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

We are so looking forward to this! Please join us tomorrow from 7pm.

British Association for Local History@balhnews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us tomorrow to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched! This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

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

Brilliant!

Andy Ledger@lowfeller.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"

A map of the University and city from 1751, much of it still recognisable today! 🗺️ Shelmark: Bodleian Library, Gough Maps Oxfordshire 12

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/

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...

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/

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

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

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

British Cartographic Society@bcsmaps.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Behind the scenes at the BCS Awards in Person Presentation at the Bodleian library for Stanfords, Collins Bartholomew, and the overall BCS Award. Winning entry is the Atlas of Finance! Congratulations to all involved

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 🗃️

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…

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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