Mike Hall
@thisismikehall.com
Award-winning mapmaker and illustrator in Valencia, Spain | My first book THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON is now available! https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/the-boroughs-of-london | More info: linktr.ee/thisismikehall
I’m in Bridgwater, Somerset for a couple of days for reasons I won’t go into. Had a bit of time to kill this morning so went for a wander round the town centre. Quite charming from certain angles.
January 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM
I’m in Bridgwater, Somerset for a couple of days for reasons I won’t go into. Had a bit of time to kill this morning so went for a wander round the town centre. Quite charming from certain angles.
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Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.
January 14, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.
The same, but for podcast ads. I’ve had a Shopify account for years. PLEASE STOP PLAYING ME SHOPIFY ADS
Desperately need a setting where I can scream OKAY I’VE BOUGHT THAT THING NOW into my phone and the ads can stop they can please just stop
January 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The same, but for podcast ads. I’ve had a Shopify account for years. PLEASE STOP PLAYING ME SHOPIFY ADS
My timeline is full of people saying “woah, loads of new followers!”. For the record, I’ve had approximately zero new followers in the past 4 days. So there.
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 PM
My timeline is full of people saying “woah, loads of new followers!”. For the record, I’ve had approximately zero new followers in the past 4 days. So there.
Finally, unceremoniously deleted my X account just now. I'm surprised Elon hadn't changed this message to read "Go on, fuck off crying to Bluesky you pedo libtard" or some such.
January 5, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Finally, unceremoniously deleted my X account just now. I'm surprised Elon hadn't changed this message to read "Go on, fuck off crying to Bluesky you pedo libtard" or some such.
It's that weird time of year where I'm seeing posts by other parents talking about taking the decorations down and the kids being back at school while here we still have our decorations up, it's still the holidays and we're effectively doing Christmas all over *again* tomorrow (for Three Kings Day).
January 5, 2026 at 9:51 AM
It's that weird time of year where I'm seeing posts by other parents talking about taking the decorations down and the kids being back at school while here we still have our decorations up, it's still the holidays and we're effectively doing Christmas all over *again* tomorrow (for Three Kings Day).
New Year’s Eve in Spain: shove twelve grapes into your face at the stroke of midnight, tune into Antena 3, what is Cristina Pedroche wearing?! Every single year. 🥂
December 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
New Year’s Eve in Spain: shove twelve grapes into your face at the stroke of midnight, tune into Antena 3, what is Cristina Pedroche wearing?! Every single year. 🥂
Found myself watching The Holiday (2006) last night. You know when you can tell a movie is going to be terrible simply because of the font they use for the title? This was a textbook example.
December 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Found myself watching The Holiday (2006) last night. You know when you can tell a movie is going to be terrible simply because of the font they use for the title? This was a textbook example.
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English goodbye: leave without saying anything
Spanish goodbye: tell everyone you’re leaving then continue to hang around chatting for another 25 minutes
Spanish goodbye: tell everyone you’re leaving then continue to hang around chatting for another 25 minutes
August 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
English goodbye: leave without saying anything
Spanish goodbye: tell everyone you’re leaving then continue to hang around chatting for another 25 minutes
Spanish goodbye: tell everyone you’re leaving then continue to hang around chatting for another 25 minutes
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Very chuffed to have won a copy of this beautiful book by @mattfromlondon.bsky.social and @thisismikehall.com (plus accompanying print). Looking forward to regaling my family with nerdy nuggets of Londonness.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Very chuffed to have won a copy of this beautiful book by @mattfromlondon.bsky.social and @thisismikehall.com (plus accompanying print). Looking forward to regaling my family with nerdy nuggets of Londonness.
As usual it's occurred to me far too late into the process (19 days in) that I should have done a Bluesky 'advent calendar' like other artists on here. Oh well, maybe next year
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
As usual it's occurred to me far too late into the process (19 days in) that I should have done a Bluesky 'advent calendar' like other artists on here. Oh well, maybe next year
"You sure like maps a lot, huh. Tell me: what's a London bo-roo-guh?"
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"You sure like maps a lot, huh. Tell me: what's a London bo-roo-guh?"
🎺🥁 ANNOUNCING the winners of our recent Rename a Borough competition!
🏆 Each will receive a signed map of Greater London AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social
All of us enjoyed reading through the submissions, and here are our ten favourites: 🧵
🏆 Each will receive a signed map of Greater London AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social
All of us enjoyed reading through the submissions, and here are our ten favourites: 🧵
🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🎺🥁 ANNOUNCING the winners of our recent Rename a Borough competition!
🏆 Each will receive a signed map of Greater London AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social
All of us enjoyed reading through the submissions, and here are our ten favourites: 🧵
🏆 Each will receive a signed map of Greater London AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social
All of us enjoyed reading through the submissions, and here are our ten favourites: 🧵
My book ‘The Boroughs of London’ is BACK in stock on UK Amazon — just in time to order as a gift for that London-obsessed cartophile in your life! 🎁
🌟 Recommended by London Historians, The London Society and the blogfather of London trivia himself, Diamond Geezer
www.amazon.co.uk/Boroughs-Lon...
🌟 Recommended by London Historians, The London Society and the blogfather of London trivia himself, Diamond Geezer
www.amazon.co.uk/Boroughs-Lon...
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My book ‘The Boroughs of London’ is BACK in stock on UK Amazon — just in time to order as a gift for that London-obsessed cartophile in your life! 🎁
🌟 Recommended by London Historians, The London Society and the blogfather of London trivia himself, Diamond Geezer
www.amazon.co.uk/Boroughs-Lon...
🌟 Recommended by London Historians, The London Society and the blogfather of London trivia himself, Diamond Geezer
www.amazon.co.uk/Boroughs-Lon...
Super chuffed to have made my first contribution to a Map Men video - look out for two little cartographic cameos by yours truly at 2:26 and 3:02! ✍🏻 ⬇️
And while we’re on the subject… East of England FTW ✊🏻
And while we’re on the subject… East of England FTW ✊🏻
NEW EPISODE OF MAP MEN!
Forget the North-South divide. Is this the REAL way to split England in two? Share and enjoy!
youtu.be/DQzqmV7t6_0
Forget the North-South divide. Is this the REAL way to split England in two? Share and enjoy!
youtu.be/DQzqmV7t6_0
EAST vs WEST: England's REAL divide?
YouTube video by Jay and Mark
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Super chuffed to have made my first contribution to a Map Men video - look out for two little cartographic cameos by yours truly at 2:26 and 3:02! ✍🏻 ⬇️
And while we’re on the subject… East of England FTW ✊🏻
And while we’re on the subject… East of England FTW ✊🏻
As a fan of In Our Time AND Misha's 'How To Invent A Country' podcast, this is excellent news.
Things that will interest Bluesky; Misha Glenny, author of McMafia, replaces Melvyn Bragg as host of In Our Time.
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As a fan of In Our Time AND Misha's 'How To Invent A Country' podcast, this is excellent news.
"But hasn't Google mapped everything already now?"
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"But hasn't Google mapped everything already now?"
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Last chance to win a signed map of London AND a whole, entire, actual copy of our book 'The Boroughs of London': take any London Borough, invent a witty, interesting, evocative, silly, or serious alternative name for it, send it to us before the end of tonight, and you could win win win!
🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Last chance to win a signed map of London AND a whole, entire, actual copy of our book 'The Boroughs of London': take any London Borough, invent a witty, interesting, evocative, silly, or serious alternative name for it, send it to us before the end of tonight, and you could win win win!
Last chance to win a signed map of London AND a whole, entire, actual copy of our book 'The Boroughs of London': take any London Borough, invent a witty, interesting, evocative, silly, or serious alternative name for it, send it to us before the end of tonight, and you could win win win!
🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
💭 Play the role of a 1960s London councillor and invent a new name for an existing London Borough!
The best suggestions will win a signed map of Greater London by me, AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' courtesy of Batsford Books!
ℹ️ More info at bit.ly/BorosComp
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Last chance to win a signed map of London AND a whole, entire, actual copy of our book 'The Boroughs of London': take any London Borough, invent a witty, interesting, evocative, silly, or serious alternative name for it, send it to us before the end of tonight, and you could win win win!
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"Priority Boarding" on Ryanair makes me laugh. Congratulations, you paid £60 extra to stand in a cold, windy stairwell for 25 minutes before the rest of us!
December 9, 2024 at 8:49 AM
"Priority Boarding" on Ryanair makes me laugh. Congratulations, you paid £60 extra to stand in a cold, windy stairwell for 25 minutes before the rest of us!
ICYMI earlier - a thread of my somewhat mad, entirely unnecessary hike around the London Borough of Sutton earlier today (ow, my aching feet!) in which I visit all the interesting places within that borough that we feature in our book, The Boroughs of London.
Here we go then. As @diamondgeezer.bsky.social has decreed it, and for the amusement of ~3 people, I am bound for the great borough of Sutton.
Stand by for a reportage.
Stand by for a reportage.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
ICYMI earlier - a thread of my somewhat mad, entirely unnecessary hike around the London Borough of Sutton earlier today (ow, my aching feet!) in which I visit all the interesting places within that borough that we feature in our book, The Boroughs of London.
Here we go then. As @diamondgeezer.bsky.social has decreed it, and for the amusement of ~3 people, I am bound for the great borough of Sutton.
Stand by for a reportage.
Stand by for a reportage.
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here we go then. As @diamondgeezer.bsky.social has decreed it, and for the amusement of ~3 people, I am bound for the great borough of Sutton.
Stand by for a reportage.
Stand by for a reportage.
All right come on guys. At the moment (if I go through with this idea) I’m spending tomorrow travelling all the way from Stratford down to Sutton then back up to Enfield for the book thing by 6pm. My Oyster card’s gonna take a pasting.
Any votes for literally any other borough? 🙏🏻
Any votes for literally any other borough? 🙏🏻
💡 Publicity stunt idea:
I have a whole day to kill in London tomorrow. In homage to @diamondgeezer.bsky.social, my challenge is to visit all of the key locations we feature within a single borough in our book.
Which borough is up to you! Vote in the replies - the borough with most votes wins. Go!
I have a whole day to kill in London tomorrow. In homage to @diamondgeezer.bsky.social, my challenge is to visit all of the key locations we feature within a single borough in our book.
Which borough is up to you! Vote in the replies - the borough with most votes wins. Go!
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
All right come on guys. At the moment (if I go through with this idea) I’m spending tomorrow travelling all the way from Stratford down to Sutton then back up to Enfield for the book thing by 6pm. My Oyster card’s gonna take a pasting.
Any votes for literally any other borough? 🙏🏻
Any votes for literally any other borough? 🙏🏻
So far it’s a choice between Sutton or Hillingdon. Both perfectly fine places to visit though rather inconveniently distant from the north London place I need to be at by 6pm...
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So far it’s a choice between Sutton or Hillingdon. Both perfectly fine places to visit though rather inconveniently distant from the north London place I need to be at by 6pm...