Nick Millea
@milleanick.bsky.social
Map Curator at the Bodleian, University of Oxford; Hon Fellow, Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Chair, Charlbury Beer Festival (2020); Cyclist ...
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Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
events.bl.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Come along to see Livingmapper @mikeduggan4.bsky.social chair a panel discussion on the question of 'who controls the map' at @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
A different sort of commute today ... The rim split on my front wheel, a 4-mile walk from the nearest train station. Thanks to @gwr.com for getting me to work and @blenheimpalace.bsky.social for a scenic walk.
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A different sort of commute today ... The rim split on my front wheel, a 4-mile walk from the nearest train station. Thanks to @gwr.com for getting me to work and @blenheimpalace.bsky.social for a scenic walk.
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Our YouTube channel has beefed up for the winter! You can now watch lots of brilliant talks about mapmaking and the history of Britain's towns and cities. Please subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@hist_towns
Historic Towns Trust
An educational charity working to map the urban histories of Great Britain.
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our YouTube channel has beefed up for the winter! You can now watch lots of brilliant talks about mapmaking and the history of Britain's towns and cities. Please subscribe here: www.youtube.com/@hist_towns
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📣📣 PRIZE 📣📣
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.
Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.
Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Prize for Projects in Map History 2026
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History. The ISHMap Prize in for Pr…
ishmap.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
📣📣 PRIZE 📣📣
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.
Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.
Details: ishmap.com/prize-for-pr...
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
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Don’t forget to submit your proposals for #ichc2026! Who wouldn’t want to talk about #maps in Prague?
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
ichc2026.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Don’t forget to submit your proposals for #ichc2026! Who wouldn’t want to talk about #maps in Prague?
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts due 14 November! #skystorians 🗃️
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We finished the day with stories and insights from Felicity Aston and Phoebe Smith, two contemporary explorers who use and think about #maps a lot. What a great day!
Thanks to all attended @rgsibg.bsky.social and online!
Thanks to all attended @rgsibg.bsky.social and online!
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We finished the day with stories and insights from Felicity Aston and Phoebe Smith, two contemporary explorers who use and think about #maps a lot. What a great day!
Thanks to all attended @rgsibg.bsky.social and online!
Thanks to all attended @rgsibg.bsky.social and online!
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The Challenging Maps & Exploration symposium is in full swing!
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Challenging Maps & Exploration symposium is in full swing!
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
We started with maps & empire & are now discussing Indigeneity, archives, & mapping.
Michael Bravo just asked, “How do we listen to maps?” Just one of many provocative questions that drive today’s conversations. #maps #skystorians 🗃️
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Lots going on in this picture from a Dutch sea atlas, 1676. Figures point cross-staffs to a sea-torch, symbolizing navigation, others measure maps and globes with compasses. A sailor holds a sounding weight to measure depths and a navigator a marine astrolabe to measure latitude @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Lots going on in this picture from a Dutch sea atlas, 1676. Figures point cross-staffs to a sea-torch, symbolizing navigation, others measure maps and globes with compasses. A sailor holds a sounding weight to measure depths and a navigator a marine astrolabe to measure latitude @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Secret Maps opens today! 🤫 🗺️
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
From medieval manuscripts to Cold War espionage, our new exhibition explores how maps have hidden as much as they revealed for over 600 years.
Book now: bit.ly/BLSecretMaps
Our next season for The Oxford Seminars in Cartography ... #TOSCA @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Register at: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our next season for The Oxford Seminars in Cartography ... #TOSCA @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Register at: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
More info at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/tosca @bcsmaps.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social
1st speaker is @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social
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Cronos, Greek god of death and time (hence the scythe and hourglass) and Hercules (in one of his labours, capturing the multi-headed dog Cerberus) either side of an armillary sphere in a 1663 Blaeu atlas of Asia. On the next page Hercules opens a door onto the continent @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Cronos, Greek god of death and time (hence the scythe and hourglass) and Hercules (in one of his labours, capturing the multi-headed dog Cerberus) either side of an armillary sphere in a 1663 Blaeu atlas of Asia. On the next page Hercules opens a door onto the continent @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Definitely "nice to look at". Another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog by @debbietheduck.bsky.social looks at a recently-discovered letter accompanying Bryant's stunning 1824 map of #Oxfordshire. A great endorsement of @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social mapping too. Go to: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Definitely "nice to look at". Another @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog by @debbietheduck.bsky.social looks at a recently-discovered letter accompanying Bryant's stunning 1824 map of #Oxfordshire. A great endorsement of @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social mapping too. Go to: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
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Café ride to test the upcoming version of the cycle.travel app ☕️
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Café ride to test the upcoming version of the cycle.travel app ☕️
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'Close's fisherman's chart', c1922, has some beautifully poetic descriptions of fishing grounds and trawling sites, along with a timeline of U-Boats captured or destroyed in the channel during the First World War, including this piece about the activities of Skipper Tom Phillips @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
'Close's fisherman's chart', c1922, has some beautifully poetic descriptions of fishing grounds and trawling sites, along with a timeline of U-Boats captured or destroyed in the channel during the First World War, including this piece about the activities of Skipper Tom Phillips @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place
Discovery Course 1
www.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
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We’re so proud of our trustee, Bob Allies.
Congratulations to Architect in Residence Professor Bob Allies from the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering who has been nominated for the 2025 #StirlingPrize. The building designed for the University of Arts London is one of six finalists for the prestigious architecture awards.
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We’re so proud of our trustee, Bob Allies.
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👋🏻 Hey Students! We get it, navigating career decisions in the cartographic sphere can be tricky. But we've got you... We're hosting an online Careers Talk, FREE for Student Members, feat. inspiring talks from 4 cartographic professionals (including the brilliant Hannah!). Check your inbox to sign-up
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
👋🏻 Hey Students! We get it, navigating career decisions in the cartographic sphere can be tricky. But we've got you... We're hosting an online Careers Talk, FREE for Student Members, feat. inspiring talks from 4 cartographic professionals (including the brilliant Hannah!). Check your inbox to sign-up
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We’re at the @balhnews.bsky.social Herts. Beds. and Bucks. conference today. Do come and say hello!
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
We’re at the @balhnews.bsky.social Herts. Beds. and Bucks. conference today. Do come and say hello!
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The pedestrianised Market Street, Hinksey’s Little Wheels and Wet Play Park, restoration of Christ Church Cathedral Tower and Oxford Brookes’ “Edible Streets” project are among the shortlisted entries for Oxford Preservation Trust’s 2025 awards. Winners will be announced on 12 November.
October 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The pedestrianised Market Street, Hinksey’s Little Wheels and Wet Play Park, restoration of Christ Church Cathedral Tower and Oxford Brookes’ “Edible Streets” project are among the shortlisted entries for Oxford Preservation Trust’s 2025 awards. Winners will be announced on 12 November.
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New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.
All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]
All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.
All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]
All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]
Time for the next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social taking us back to the First World War & a close look at trench maps. What are these unusual numbered circles? Learn more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
@bcsmaps.bsky.social @westernfrontww1.bsky.social
@bcsmaps.bsky.social @westernfrontww1.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Time for the next @bodleian.ox.ac.uk #Maps blog from @stuartackland.bsky.social taking us back to the First World War & a close look at trench maps. What are these unusual numbered circles? Learn more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
@bcsmaps.bsky.social @westernfrontww1.bsky.social
@bcsmaps.bsky.social @westernfrontww1.bsky.social
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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”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Issue Editors’ Introduction: Indigenous Maps and Mapping
Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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 🗃️
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
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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 🗃️
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 🗃️
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Happy birthday to us! 🥳 HUGE thanks for celebrating us being in our 7th year, at our banging birthday party. Thanks to your support, we’ve managed to achieve more over the last 6 years than we can write on Bluesky! (You'll have to look on Facebook or Instagram!)
#worcestershirehour
#worcestershirehour
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy birthday to us! 🥳 HUGE thanks for celebrating us being in our 7th year, at our banging birthday party. Thanks to your support, we’ve managed to achieve more over the last 6 years than we can write on Bluesky! (You'll have to look on Facebook or Instagram!)
#worcestershirehour
#worcestershirehour
We've just shared this and other #map treasures with the Historic Houses Archivists' Group here at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. A wonderful visit.
Bartomeu Olives 1575 portolan nautical chart of the Mediterranean includes a lovely elephant and the Red Sea (in red, obvs). Included is the parting of the sea created by God for Moses and the Israelites to cross, fleeing from the Egyptians, as stated in Exodus chapter 14. @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We've just shared this and other #map treasures with the Historic Houses Archivists' Group here at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. A wonderful visit.