Caroline Anjali Ritchie
@carolineanjali.bsky.social
Curatorial Fellow @ Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Globes, maps, zines, William Blake. Author: "William Blake" (Tate Publishing, 2024), "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination" (Palgrave, 2025). Editor, BARS Review.
Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.'
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Finished off my Friday reading the final pages of Robert Poole's groundbreaking study 'Earthrise.'
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
Incredible account of Earth photography and how these images can reshape our environmental consciousness 🌱🌍🌎🌏🍃
Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy birthday, William Blake! 🌻
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
Here is Blake's 'Ah! Sun-Flower' (copy in the Fitz).
The sunflower is a national symbol of Ukraine. You can donate to Rescue UK to support people affected by the crisis: www.rescue.org/uk/topic/ukr.... Feel free to share other means of support in comments.
Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Can't stop thinking about Olafur Eliasson's glacial ice watercolour - at once worldly and otherworldly - on show in 'Nordic Noir' in the BM's prints and drawings galleries
Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!
Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy
All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.
Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...
Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!
Friday afternoon delivery!
March 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Friday afternoon delivery!
It's out ❤️🗺️📍🌎
My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
March 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's out ❤️🗺️📍🌎
My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Perfect chaser to my teaching this afternoon - the final seminar in a course on 18th-century "globe-gazing"
November 19, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Perfect chaser to my teaching this afternoon - the final seminar in a course on 18th-century "globe-gazing"
Come along to my conference! 🌐🪐🌏 Call for papers addressing global imagining before the Earthrise photos of 1968
tide.web.ox.ac.uk/event/earthr...
tide.web.ox.ac.uk/event/earthr...
November 11, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Come along to my conference! 🌐🪐🌏 Call for papers addressing global imagining before the Earthrise photos of 1968
tide.web.ox.ac.uk/event/earthr...
tide.web.ox.ac.uk/event/earthr...
✨Breaking Blakean news!✨ My little intro to William Blake is pretty in pink and out next Thursday!
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
October 28, 2024 at 4:35 PM
✨Breaking Blakean news!✨ My little intro to William Blake is pretty in pink and out next Thursday!
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
Could it be the perfect Xmas present? 👀 Pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/artists...
Sunday reading: fascinating book from Bellerby Globes
October 22, 2023 at 11:06 AM
Sunday reading: fascinating book from Bellerby Globes
Big fan of this fragmented earth from the Sheldon Tapestry map (on display at the weston lib in oxford)
October 19, 2023 at 7:22 PM
Big fan of this fragmented earth from the Sheldon Tapestry map (on display at the weston lib in oxford)