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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 15h

Finally, Casey Price summarises his PhD dissertation (now successfully defended!), “Given to this Land: Mapping European Settler Colonialism in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1682–1810”

Given to this Land: Mapping European Settler Colonialism in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1682–1810

Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 15h

In the first entry in a new occasional series, Christine Luckasavitch reflects on her “Life in Maps” as an Algonquin Anishinaabekwe and mixed settler ancestry woman.

Available Open Access until the end of October!

What Stories Can Maps Tell – If We Make Them?

This is the first in a new occasional series that will feature reflections by and about those who have worked with maps in diverse ways. The format of the pieces will vary depending on the contribu...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

In “Indigenous Mapping and Mobile Spaces: The Sites and Sounds of Somali Encounters with Imperial Cartography in Eastern Africa,” Julie MacArthur examines oral and aural mapping practices in a colonial context.

Indigenous Mapping and Mobile Spaces: The Sites and Sounds of Somali Encounters with Imperial Cartography in Eastern Africa

Cartography has long been defined through the opposition of fixity and mobility. Imperial cartography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eastern Africa worked to affix populations to part...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

In “Elemental Cartographies: Restoring Kuleana Mapping at Kauaʻula, Lahaina, Maui,” Candace Fujikane discusses kuleana maps as evidence in land disputes and links these maps to a more elemental understanding of space.

Elemental Cartographies: Restoring Kuleana Mapping at Kauaʻula, Lahaina, Maui

Since long before the 2023 wildfires, Lahaina has been a battleground for Kānaka Maoli who are winning their ancestral lands back in settler courts of law. Kanaka Maoli leader Keʻeaumoku Kapu has w...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

In “Drawing the Line: The Interplay of European and African Mapping Practices in the Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée (1:1,000,000),” Tom Bassett looks at the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in a French example from 1890.

Drawing the Line: The Interplay of European and African Mapping Practices in the Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée (1:1,000,000)

This article illustrates the intertwined nature of European and African mapping practices in the construction of Captain Louis-Gustave Binger’s 1890 Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le Pa...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

In “Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World”, Eric Anderson and Carrie Cornelius outline spatial practices of Indigenous North Americans and offer a new interpretive model.

Open Access until the end of October!

Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World

This article broadly surveys core concepts and examples of Indigenous mapping systems that are distinct from, and often challenge, Western notions of cartography. While both traditions share some c...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

In our editorial introduction (free to all to read!) we lay out our decolonial approach and why we won’t define “Indigenous” or “maps and mapping”

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Issue Editors’ Introduction: Indigenous Maps and Mapping

Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16h

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 🗃️

Imago Mundi

Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi

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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 6d

The @rgsibg.bsky.social is currently holding Impossible Measures, an amazing exhibition of Kristina Chan’s work inspired by historic instruments in their collection. Thank you @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social for the invite to the opening. Looking forward to reading your essay in the catalogue.

View of the entrance to the gallery, with the poster for the exhibition on left and stairs leading up to the gallery with artworks hanging on the wall on the right.

Cover of the accompanying exhibition catalogue Kristina Chan: Habitable Climes.

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 12d

So happy that we, with the generous help of @nhm.org , could ensure that Icicle is stable and ready for display.
#penguin #conservation 🐧

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Collections update: Icicle’s grand adventure

The Society’s Cartographic Collections Manage reflects on a recent conservation project involving a penguin affectionately nicknamed Icicle and an overnight stay at our neighbours, the Natural History...

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 13d

Stunning autumn day teaching about Palladian and English Baroque #architecture at Queen’s House & Old Royal Naval College.

Students currently on a scavenger hunt for tympanums, lanterns, and more. 🍂 🍁 🧱🏛️

#amteaching 🗃️

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16d

Definitely! 👍

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 16d

Great fun recording a podcast today that discusses cartographic collecting (of the same atlases) in the #c16 and #c19. #maps 🌎🗺️🗃️

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 19d

Made it to “From streets to the stars: 500 years of maps” at the beautiful Maughan Library @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social . Great to see maps in books get their due, especially Dampier, Anson, and other Pacific volumes. It’s open until 28 September! #maps 🗃️

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21d

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 21d

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 🗃️

Applying for a Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 24d

First site visit covers 1600 years of London #architecture from the Roman Wall, the Tower of London, All Hallows Barking, London Bridge, Southwark Cathedral, the Golden Hinde, to the Globe Theatre (phew!).

There was ☀️ and 🌧️ and good discussion of fortification, religion, and replicas. #amteaching

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 27d

That start of school feeling never goes away! Buzzing to start this semester of Seeing London’s Architecture at NYU London. #amteaching #history #architecture

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 28d

Looking forward to a 🌏 day with experts Michael Day, Sylvia Sumira, and Renae Satterley discussing the Molyneux globes @middletemple.bsky.social. #globes #maps #studyday

Sign up for the 11 Oct event here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/mid... 🗃️

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Aug 10

Walked the #tuskturtletrail and our fav was Turtle London by Adam Dant. Packed full of local (turtle) history and structured as a #map!

(Don’t mind tiny research assistant photo bombing) #artandhistory

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wonderful event on 30 Oct in London: "Challenging maps and exploration symposium" @rgsibg.bsky.social @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social & co-organised w/ the amazing Sunderland Collection (oculi-mundi.com).

www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

#maps #histsci #skystorians

Challenging maps and exploration symposium

Join us for a day of expert panels discussing the connections, historical and contemporary, between maps and exploration.

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Jul 24

Book your place for the FREE symposium, Challenging Maps & Exploration, @rgsibg.bsky.social 30 Oct!

Sponsored by The Sunderland Collection, the event is hybrid & features experts talking about #maps and 'exploration (historic & contemporary), Indigeneity, empire, & more.

#skystorians 🗃️

Challenging maps and exploration symposium

Join us for a day of expert panels discussing the connections, historical and contemporary, between maps and exploration.

www.rgs.org

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Jul 23

Glad to chat with Wiley about #maps, the social construction of The Explorer, and our @rgsibg.bsky.social #collections. #skystorians 🗃️

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Safekeeping the world’s maps: a chat with Katie Parker from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

A: I'm a naval historian by training, so I'm very partial to the Northwest Passage expeditions. I think they're interesting for understanding what makes an explorer.

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Jul 16

The #CFP is open for #ichc2026! Working on the history of #maps and #mapping? Submit a paper and join the community in Prague next summer!!

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