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.
Giving @noreenmasud.bsky.social's 'A Flat Place' a second read & am enthralled again
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Giving @noreenmasud.bsky.social's 'A Flat Place' a second read & am enthralled again
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)