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The British Library's Map Library, bringing you 4.5 million maps & views produced between 15CE and 2025
London, UK
Joined October 2011
RT @britishlibrary: Calling mid-career library and archive professionals 📣. Looking to advance your career and connect with international p….
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We are looking to recruit a new Curator of Digital Mapping here at the British Library. For details and to apply please see
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A reminder that the deadline for applications to the Harley fellowships is 1 November.
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The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography is a funding opportunity for anyone who wishes to work with historical map collections in the UK. Deadline for applications is 1 November
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The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography. Applications are invited from students of any discipline looking to do post grad-level work in UK historical map collections (deadline 1 November). For more information see.
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RT @EllaMcHawk: Biscuits flavoured with Earl Grey and Yorkshire Lavender (because research is fuelled by tea). All designs painted by hand….
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What good is a 50th birthday without sweet treats? Dr Ella Hawkins, a design historian, author and artist, brought some of our most iconic and unique collection items new life – in biscuit form. Each...
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RT @EllaMcHawk: It’s the @BritishLibrary’s 50th birthday!. This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by the British Library’s wonderful collect….
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Make Maps Not War.Wednesday, 21st June 2023. 18:00–20:00 .Pushkin House, Live and online.@livingmaps @Pushkin_House.
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Latest @livingmaps event @Pushkin_House: Mapping Armageddon 1945- 2045: Out of the nuclear bunker into the fire next time.With Timothy Barney and Bradley Garrett, Chaired by Phil Cohen. May 17th Online Webinar. 6.00 pm – 8.00pm (UK BST). Tickets :
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British Antarctic Survey data is now available on the @Britishlibrary onsite digital maps viewer .
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Twenty three datasets from the British Antarctic Survey are now available to readers in the digital maps viewer which can be accessed in the maps reading room. High resolution vector polygons of...
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Applications are invited for the Helen Wallis Fellowship, open to scholars using the @Britishlibrary map collection in historical investigation. Deadline is 1 May.
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Tomorrow (Tuesday 21 March): The War Map as Spectacle: Cartographies of Terror and Conflict in Contemporary News Media @Pushkin_House @livingmaps .
There are still tickets available for our next event, .in partnership with @Pushkin_House – . Join Livingmaps director Peter Vujakovic for .The War Map as Spectacle: Cartographies of Terror and Conflict in Contemporary News Media .
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Looking forward to this @AmerTrustBL online event on Blaeu’s giant world map held by @ransomcenter. Here’s the @BritishLibrary copy for comparison
Grappling with a Monumental Map: Joan Blaeu's Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula (1648). A FREE, virtual program with the ATBL & @ransomcenter March 8, 2023! Register: @bscmaps @illinoismaps @cartoguild @cartosoc @cdncarto @blmaps #maps @winterthurmuse
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RT @BLMedieval: The British Library has collaborated with Escape Studios’ School of Interactive and Real Time to create an interactive vers….
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For details of past awards, numbers of applicants, and extracts from previous fellows’ reports, see [part of the 'Map History' gateway site]. This also contains information about applying for a Fellowship (closing date 1st November each year).
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There were nine applications, four from the USA and one each from France, India, Peru, the Philippines and the UK. Disciplines: art history, comparative literature, history, political science, environmental science and physics.
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Elizabeth Montañez-Sanabria, University of California, Davis, USA. ‘Piracy and Mapping: Cartographical Knowledge and Imperial Political Decision Making in the Opening of the Spanish South Sea’.
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Juliette Dumasy-Rabineau, Université d’Orléans, France. ‘Local Maps in Medieval England, Italy and France: a Comparative Study’.
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