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Detail of a map "Europa recens descripta" published by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in 1657 showing the North Coast of Africa with two lions and the term "Barbaria". Source: https://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/70402185
How barbaric? In the seventeenth-century, European maps still had "BARBARIA" as a part of Africa in them. Barbaria derives from the Arabic term, bilad al-Barbar (land of the Barbar) and was a term contemporarily used mainly for Coastal Northeastern Horn of Africa. 🦁 #earlymodern #maphistory
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To sum up, #maphistory does have a chapter about folded and only partly digitized maps. Our digital processes of preservation should be better, folks.
#FoldedMaps
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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 🗃️
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Scenographia Systematis Copernicani
Day 9 — Analog 🪶
Scenographia Systematis Copernicani — a 16th-century depiction of the heliocentric world system. Nicolaus Copernicus placed the Sun near the center of the Universe, forever changing our cosmic map. ☀️🌍✨
#30DayMapChallenge #Analog #MapHistory #Cartography
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Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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John Speed Enlarged
Matthew shared this "this might be my last time in the Science Hall office of the history of #cartography project, as the building is about to get entirely rehabilitated before I next have to return in person! So here’s David Woodward’s blow up of 1651 Speed #maps … #maphistory…
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John Speed Enlarged
Matthew shared this "this might be my last time in the Science Hall office of the history of #cartography project, as the building is about to get entirely rehabilitated before I next have to return in person! So here’s David Woodward’s blow up of 1651 Speed #maps … #maphistory…
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Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out!
I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i.
#newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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This year’s Harley Fellowships are open! Have a map history project that requires work in UK archives? Pitch it for funding (up to £2000)! Deadline is 1 November
www.maphistory.info/application....
#maps #maphistory #Skystorians 🗃️
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State Historian Susan Schulten On The Maps That Shaped — And Distorted — Colorado’s History
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www.cpr.org/2025/08/01/s...
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#maps #mapping #history #cartography #Colorado #US #influence #culture #news #powerofmaps #historicalmaps #MapHistory #VintageMaps #story #stories
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A review of History of Britain in maps gives me an excuse to explore the three circles of book hell: adult colouring books, coffee table books and gift books: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2025/07/hist... #bookreview #giftbooks #maphistory
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Detail of a map of 1683 showing camels.
More camels in a detail of the map.
In 1683, #camels took part in the Ottoman siege of Vienna. In this military map of the Saxon artillery chief captain Daniel Suttinger (1640-1689) the fleeing of the Turkish troops and their camels are shown. #maphistory #skystorians
Access the zoomable map: www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/ob...
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Oh hey! Lovely seeing my book in the shop of the National Maritime Museum, near those of friends Michael Barritt and @meganbar.bsky.social (among others). The book is not new but delighted to encounter it in the wild in the UK for the first time. #maphistory #seacharts
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Happy Earth Day from the #sferaproject!
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #bookhistory
(G. Dati, La sfera/The Globe, early 15c; BNCF Magl. XI.83, f. 7r)
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A black and white version of the Scholeus engraving, showing the city centre of Bergen around 1580, seen from the south side towards the harbour.
A coloured version of the Scholeus engraving, showing the city centre of Bergen around 1580, seen from the south side towards the harbour.
First non-photography! Swipe for coloured version.
Hieronymus Scholeus drew a view of #Bergen in 1581, creating the world's oldest (known) depiction of the city, and the first of a Norwegian city at all.
There was uncertainty whether the artist had ever […]
[Original post on pixelfed.social]
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A fascinating feel-good read this Friday.
Featuring four generations of the Guinness family, and the happy conclusion, "Black Sash [a human rights organisation] was able to disband in 1994 with Nelson Mandela’s release from prison", courtesy of our Maps dept.
#HumanRights #Maps #MapHistory.
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Today’s neat object is this instrument case used by Captain William Henry Smyth. Look at those drafting instruments! (rgs701289) #maphistory @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Congrats to Imago Mundi Assistant Editors Tony Cui and @flynnoallott.bsky.social for organising, chairing and presenting a panel on #maphistory at #RSA2025. Just one of many #mappy panels and events happening at the conference this year.
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Kun eurooppalaiset aina nimesi ‘uusia’ paikkoja kaveriensa tai tapahtumien mukaan, niin arvaa missä Cook sai reissun parhaan dinnerin? #inCookCompany #maphistory
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Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh share fascinating examples of early modern English companies using scale & other map features to project certainty & trust for investors at Maps & Society lecture, organised by the Hakluyt Society @warburginstitute.bsky.social #maphistory
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First round of DMSI @ Leeds applications are due in TWO DAYS (30 Jan)! Come dive into medieval maps and digital mapping with me! I might even get to wear a sweater in July!
#medievalsky #earlymodern #skystorians #dh #maphistory
tinyurl.com/DMSI-2025-UK
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Best kind of academic afternoon at University of Warwick last Friday discussing life, loss, & mapping environmental change alongside Natalia Gandara Chacana, Aleksandra Kaye, & Elizabeth Chant #maps #maphistory
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Including yours truly, with amazing maps! #maphistory #medievalsky
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3) I am especially interested in organizing (a) panel(s) or other thing on spatial history/DH. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social #spatialhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalmapping #maphistory
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#Historians: I'm on the program committee for the 2026 #AHA in Chicago! Anyone who might be interested in presenting, please get in touch via email [last-name-no-diacritic at ncf full-stop edu] or DM. I'll also put a few idea in the replies.
#medievalsky #earlymodern #maphistory #academicsky
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A detail of the painting: a map at the wall.
You see the famous painting of late seventeenth-century from the Dutch Johannes Vermeer "De geograaf". A young man stands on a working table and is surrounded by maps and books. Highlighted is a map at the wall in the back.
Next relevant paper item of #cartography on the painting are printed maps. This copperplate print is pinned or glued to the wall - to study, to impress, and to enjoy the worlds captured on paper. #MapHistory
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The first article of the latest issue of #ImagoMundi journal is now available online! There are also two mappy thesis abstracts there to enjoy. Full issue to come in January! #maps #maphistory
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rim...
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3. 🗺️Join Dr Katie Parker to explore the fascinating study of cartography and the history of maps!🗺️
Enrol here: buff.ly/3O5e35K
#maphistory #bookhistory
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یوزرز کو تین ماہ سے زیادہ پرانی لوکیشن ہسٹری محفوظ کرنے کا مشورہ دیا گیا ہے۔
مزید پڑھیے : www.aaj.tv/news/30425434/
#AajNews #google #maphistory #privacy #datadelet
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