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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/

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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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Pictured: Thomas Ansen, here imagined by artist Lela Harris

Thomas was an enslaved man who escaped from a farm in Dent, Yorkshire.

Read more www.facingthepast.org/map/r...
February 14, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Pictured: Banana Trading Company, Port of #Tampa #Florida 1951

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

See more tampa-through-time.humap.si...
February 13, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there" - Reif Larsen

Explore the John Rocque's London 10 Miles Round Map (1746) on n.

www.layersoflondon.org/map/...
February 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Pictured: A Tilling omnibus in #Wandsworth, #London, c.1900

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Humap, from the archives of the Wandsworth Historical Society.

See more www.layersoflondon.org/map/... & www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk/
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Cyrille Regis MBE (1958-2018) was an iconic British footballer best remembered for his time playing for #CoventryCity and #WestBromwichAlbion

www.coventryatlas.org/map/c...

#BlackHistoryMonth #Football #CoventryCity #UKHistory
February 11, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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EHRI-PL Call for Papers | International #Conference “Documenting the Holocaust: #Testimonies as Historical Evidence”
Date: June 16–17, 2026 | Location: The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland | Language: English | Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Founded in February 1939, the #Gloucester Association for Aiding Refugees was an initiative of the National Council for Women.

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

Read more at www.ukholocaustmap.org.uk/m...
February 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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This #TrailsTuesday learn all about #Scarborough At War on the @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social museums Scarborough Atlas!

www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma...

#GLAM #HIstory #WW1 #WW2 #FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar #Yorkshire
February 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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The portal for submissions for our 2026 Conference (Glasgow 5-7 Aug) closes this Friday. Our theme "Authenticity" has never been more relevant. Find all the details and how to submit here openingdoors-ara2026.eventsair.site/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
2026 Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)
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February 10, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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Interested in mapping your collections, research, or community?

Watch our demo video, or book a call below:

🎥 Demo video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4v...
👥 Public demo: calendly.com/humap-me/publi...
📅 Personal demo: calendly.com/humap-me/initi...
🖥️ Website: humap.me/
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Pictured: Maria Lactans, most likely sculpted by Brioloto de Balneo

View in glorious #3D on Twin It! - an exhibition of 3D European digital culture from @europeana.bsky.social

See more www.europeana.eu/nl/exhibit...
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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#MappyMonday! Take a walk through #Tampa FL in 1915 on #TampaThroughTime!

Our friends at the University of South Florida have digitised and georeferenced the #Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Tampa

tampa-through-time.humap.si...

#Florida #HGIS #GIS #US #USHistory #USA #MapMonday
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Pictured: Hans Rumpolt, card game, no. 8: Tenor of Ludwig Senfl, 'Patientiam muss ich han' (i) (S 263)

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from Senfl’s World, from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna #Humap 

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

#EuropeanHistory
February 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Walter Manes, a German Jewish musician, left #Germany in 1938 for #Shanghai to take up a position in a jazz band.

Read more at www.refugeemap.org/map/reco...

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social #Humap
February 7, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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📷 use the image comparison tool to contrast two photographs

This feature is perfect for projects analysing change over time, such as deforestation, coastal erosion, gentrification and disinvestment.

Learn more humap.me/resources/document...
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Next week the Oxford Digital Scholarship society are hosting a public talk on Digital Diplomacy, at St Cross College. Free, open to all and no registration needed - but find out more here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxdss-...
OxDSS Public Talks Series: Digital Diplomacy
Oxford Digital Scholarship Society
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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araukie.bsky.social
Our call for papers closes on 13 Feb. Theme is Authenticity: Record keeping establishments are places of destruction as much as preservation. What narratives control retention choices? Where does the burden of authenticity rest? Full info openingdoors-ara2026.eventsair.site/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
2026 Annual Conference of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)
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February 6, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Pictured: #Liverpool Custom House, 1954

Contributed by Liverpool Central Library

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

#OralHistory #LiverpoolDock #LiverpoolWaterfront #Maps #DigitalHumanities #GLAM
February 6, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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EHRI #CallForPapers | Transnational Workshop of @ehri-cz.bsky.social and EHRI-AT:
Rethinking Holocaust History through Geospatial Approaches
18-19 May 2026 | Venue: Prague, Czech Republic | Deadline for applications: 15 March 2026, submissions in English only.
www.ehri-project.eu/ehri-call-fo...
February 5, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Want to get out to more industry events this year?

We keep a living calendar of conferences in the #digitalhumanities, #GLAM, #GIS and #citizenscience sectors on our website.

Take a look: humap.me/resources/events/
February 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected” Reif Larsen

#Scarborough in 1938 www.scarboroughatlas.org/map/overlays... @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social
#ScarboroughAtlas
February 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Pictured: a (rather lovely) Dutch tile from the collections at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social

Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the #ScarboroughAtlas #Humap

See more www.scarboroughatlas.org/ma...
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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👥 Do you use our #crowdsourcing feature?

Now you can customise the help text, making it easier to guide your audience through the creation process.

humap.me/resources/do...

#GIS #Geospatial
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Pictured: Naval Company Marching in Gasparilla Parade, #Tampa, #Florida, 1926

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

See more tampa-through-time.humap.si...

#USA #USHistory #USAHistory
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. Its legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions Height 6.6 cm x Width 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.
February 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM