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🧵 w/Living with Machines, the British Library has digitised & georeferenced > 10,500 sheets of late-19th- & early 20th-c large-scale Ordnance Survey maps. More here: 1st: Selecting maps: livingwithmachines.ac.uk/creating-a-nat… 2nd: Georeferencing: livingwithmachines.ac.uk/georeferencing… 1/n

🗺️Come to ‘Maps, Magic and the Manchester Geographical Society’ on Thursday 18 May 5:30pm. Researchers and curators will explore the nature of colonial collections and the stories they reveal about empire and imperialism. 💻Book a free place here: ow.ly/azbR50NMCWJ

It’s the #Eurovision final tonight, so here’s an intriguing 16th-century map showing Europe as a powerful queen. Take a closer look to see Spain is shown as her crown and the island of Sicily as her golden orb. Explore this map online here: ow.ly/lELr50Okg54

Out in the reading room today, the wonderful (if rather large) Pierre Desceliers' Mappemonde (1546). French MS1. Carefully unpacked by our collection care team for a reader coming from Amsterdam, but anyone can explore it to their heart's content here 👇😍 luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s…

Come and see some of our collections on show tomorrow (Thursday 18 May) 3pm - 4pm. No need to book! Just head to the Historic Reading Room John Rylands Research Institute and Library where we will be setting up for our evening event ‘Maps, Magic and the Manchester Geographical Society’.

medium.com/special-collec… Enchanting evening at the Rylands learning about the Manchester Geographical Society and Magic Lantern Shows Donna Sherman Inbal Harding John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Bodleian Libraries announce a free online #TOSCA #MapReadings with #IsabellaAlexander discussing her new Hart Publishing book 'Copyright & cartography' with SoGE, University of Oxford's #LizBaigent. Thu 9 Nov, 16:30 UK time. Book at: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca @ISHMAP BRICMICS Bloomsbury Books UK

“As much as guns and warships, maps have been the weapons of imperialism." Brian Harley, Maps, Knowledge, and Power, 1998. Learn more about empire, colonialism and the maps in our collections: medium.com/special-collec…

Teaching is well underway as we welcome students to our state-of-the-art map room to showcase special collections. Our visualiser allows students to engage with our historic maps in new ways, enriching our understanding of seventeenth century North America. Donna Sherman

#Day10 of our Cambridge map Advent calendar heads over to St Catharine's College. Founded by the Provost of King's College in 1473, it received a royal charter two years later. Former students include our favourite Travel Man, RICHARD AYOADE.

ON VIEW NOW in Central Library : Exhibition of the Hulme and Moss Side, Carnival collections and the Black Chronicles exhibition. Come down from now till 4pm (and later @ 6:30-7:30pm) to explore our archive collections!

Its the time of year when some placenames just make us want to sing 🎶 Altogether now: Jinglejoys, jinglejoys, jinglejoys all the way #ArchiveAdventCalendar #CarolSingers

Looking forward to starting LIVINGMAPS 2024 with Eden Kincaid on 30th Jan. Tickets selling fast!

Very excited to attend this free public lecture next week organised by @ManGeogSoc. Andy Spinoza andy spinoza will be talking about how post-industrial Manchester gained its global reputation for culture, music and sport and his new book by Manchester University Press 'Manchester Unspun'.

VERY excited to attend Kit's talk on Monday. Lot's to discuss on this topic!

Meet our students, Lise and Peter! Through their MA in Library and Archives Studies, they are helping to create online catalogue records to make our educational wall maps more accessible. Donna Sherman #LibraryPlacements Check out our MA programme: ow.ly/SCWx50QG1mA

Did you know you can trace a route on any map in our Georeferenced Maps viewer, and see an elevation profile for that route? #TuesdayTips maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/he… maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#z… #HistoricMaps

This Thursday, I will give a talk on the cartographic representation of past weather and climate with Donna Sherman. Join us online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/re-mapping-p… #spatialhistory #dh