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Humap: the digital humanities map platform
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🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling

https://humap.me/

#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
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Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social · Nov 26
🗺️ Hi Bluesky! We're Humap, a map platform built with and for #GLAMA, #DigitalHumanities, and #CitizenScience

Here are some of the amazing projects on our platform 🧵

An archival history of #Tampa #Florida created by the University of South Florida tampa-through-time.humap.site

#USHistory #USA
A screenshot of a trail on Tampa Through Time
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milwelfhist.bsky.social
2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!

Join us in Romania next June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026.

CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy @vahs.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
⏰ Reminder: #DH2026 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching!
The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up:
📅 December 8, 2025

23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time)
14:59 GMT (UK)
09:59 EST (US East Coast)

Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)!

www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login
Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …
www.conftool.pro
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
humap.bsky.social
"That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible" ~ Rosita Forbes

Discover #London in 1720 at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social

#Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
humap.bsky.social
Pictured: The 10th North Riding Battalion Home Guard, #Scarborough, #WorldWarOne

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

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

#FirstWorldWar #WW1 #Yorkshire #NorthYorkshire #History
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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kris-inwood.bsky.social
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge » Events
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Launderette, Sydenham' (2019) by Michelle Heron
michelleheron.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
humap.bsky.social
🗺️ Looking for a way to get your students thinking spatially?

Bring learning to life with humap.me/

#EdTech #GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities
The Interactive Map Platform | Humap
Harness the power of geospatial storytelling with Humap. Education, heritage, enterprise, tourism, campaigns - there's a map for that.
humap.me
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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hsds-update.bsky.social
📢 Only 2 days left to get your applications in for the HSDS Small Grants Programme! Check out the link below for more details ⬇️ #heritage #science #development #funding
hsds-update.bsky.social Heritage Science Data Service @hsds-update.bsky.social · Sep 10
🎉 We're excited to announce the launch of our new HSDS Service Small Grants Programme – designed to unlock the potential for innovation in heritage science and conservation research across the UK. pplications open on the 1st October 2025.

To find out more visit: buff.ly/xNBjTjE
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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statesofprecarity.bsky.social
Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.

Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.

The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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davehitchcock.bsky.social
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
royalhistoricalsociety2.beaconforms.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
humap.bsky.social
Joseph and Margaret Kagan, survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuania, came to the UK in 1946.

They established Kagan Textiles Ltd. and opened a small factory in Elland.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from The UK Holocaust Map, created by @theajruk.bsky.social

See more www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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jimmcgrath.bsky.social
I posted the talk I gave at the annual POD Network conference last week: "Digital Processes, Not Products: Embracing Digital Ephemerality and Iteration." Topics include AI, digital pedagogy, hypertext, and more! jimmcgrath.us/teaching/dig...
Digital Processes, Not Products: Embracing Digital Ephemerality and Iteration
Hi! Below you’ll find the text of a “PODTalk” I gave at the 2025 POD Network Conference in San Diego. This was my first time attending and presenting at POD and I really enjoyed m…
jimmcgrath.us
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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katherinemcdon.bsky.social
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
Icon of St Katherine
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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derbyshiredro.bsky.social
First founded in 943AD, All Saints church in Derby (now the Cathedral) was rebuilt in the 1720s; the first sermon in the new church was given #OnThisDay, 300 years ago.

#EYAReligion/Spirituality #art #watercolour
Watercolour of view from Full Street/Cathedral Green of Derby All Saints Church as it was about 1823, painted by Philip Browne.
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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thelatinprogramme.bsky.social
Latin word of the day: celo, celare, celavi, celatus - hide

#LatinWordOfTheDay
a blue suitcase is on the ground in the middle of the woods
ALT: a blue suitcase is on the ground in the middle of the woods
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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lbwfarchives.bsky.social
Edward, Prince of Wales sports a bowler hat to open Leyton County High School for Boys at its new site at Essex Road, Leyton on 28 Nov 1929. Here he is welcomed at the Town Hall by the mayor, Alderman Sydney Cochrane, bicorn hat in hand. A top hat is seen on a dignitary on left. #InternationalHatDay
Edward, Prince of Wales visiting Leyton to open Leyton County High School for Boys at its new site at Essex Road, Leyton on 28 Nov 1929. Here he is welcomed at the Town Hall by the mayor, Alderman Sydney Cochrane. Image from VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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kmcdono.bsky.social
Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.

Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
screenshot of announcement for Allmaps + IIIF Partnership reading "Open up your map collections: Announcing the Allmaps - IIIF Partnership", with mini, multicolored map outlines and the Allmaps and IIIF logos.
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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uknatarcsector.bsky.social
Are you a community group with a passion for heritage? Or a museum, library, gallery or archive with a bold idea for community-led research?

The Spaces, Places and Belonging Community Hub is accepting applications for seed corn grants: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/community-hu... (1/2)
A person holds a large, tanned map (with a red outline) in both hands.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ohiodig.bsky.social
ICYMI, our #OhioDIG Insta this week was a #KentStateLibraries take over!
Check it out: www.instagram.com/ohiodig/
And Ohio #digitization / #digipres folks, watch for a call soon to do your own take over!
#OhioArchivists #DigitalArchives
Screenshot of Kent post on OD Insta. Desktop of digitization station on left, text post on right. Screenshot of Kent posts on OD Insta grid.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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dpasshconf2026.bsky.social
Join us in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 25-26, 2026!

This year's theme is "Ready, Set, Preserve! Making Space for Play in Digital Preservation"

See you there!
dpassh.org
Digital Preservation for the arts, social sciences and humanities – Conference 2026
dpassh.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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histparl.bsky.social
#OTD in 1459 marked the opening of the Coventry Parliament.

Although this Parliament only met briefly between November and December 1459, it would have a lasting impact in the Wars of the Roses:
A turning-point in the Wars of the Roses: the attainders of the Coventry Parliament - The History of Parliament
As significant, however, as this Parliament was in the history of the Wars of the Roses, it had as least as great a longer-term significance. It saw the
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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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elotroalex.bsky.social
And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!
#TCDXII
Our twelfth conference dedicated to Caribbean digital studies. Jamaica, 2025.
thecaribbeandigital.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
humap.bsky.social
Pictured: David Nachmann, around 1934. He was allowed to return to Chemnitz from Poland to wrap up his affairs, but was then arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

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

Learn more www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
humap.bsky.social
Trade, first beginning in 1990, was #London’s first #gay after-hours club night, hosted at Turnmills nightclub.

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #IslingtonsPride #Humap

See more islingtonspride.com/humap/

#Islington #BritishHistory #LGBTQHistory #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
humap.bsky.social
“What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, intently studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."
-Bill Bryson

Pictured: Europe in 1912, from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap

Explore at www.refugeemap.org/map/over...
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM