📣Call for Applicants- 'Mapping the March'📣

Please feel free to share this poster and the interactive link below advertising our PhD Studentship Opportunity.

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Just one week to go until The Fair Maid's House in Perth opens and we unveil our brand new exhibition, celebrating over 15 years of The Geographer magazine! Come along for our opening on Thursday 2nd May 12:30pm - 4:00pm.

Today is #50th anniversary of #CarnationRevolution which brought an end to Portugal's authoritarian regime of Estado Novo. This poster features a map used as a face. Stuart Ackland lists more examples of anthropomorphism in maps in Bodleian collections blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/

Another Bodleian Libraries #Maps blog from #StuartAckland commemorating the 50th anniversary of #Portugal 's Carnation Revolution. Anthropomorphism and allegorical maps feature too.
Learn more at: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps
British Cartographic Society BRICMICS @ISHMAP Visit Portugal Oxford Portugal

Nick Millea Richard Fairhurst Oxfordshire Cycling Network cycle.travel A40 Cycle Path Good to see the northern Bypass included in the list. And appropriately it has a makeover in the last few weeks exposing the long buried footpath.

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Well worth a read. Richard Fairhurst Cyclox Oxfordshire Cycling Network cycle.travel A40 Cycle Path

Get your map fix this week on BBC Radio 4 extra #OnTheMap especially episode 4 about social mapping including the #DrinkMapOfManchester ! John Rylands Research Institute and Library Bodleian Publishing In the US, listen with the BBC app.

editors will be available for discussions and one-on-ones during the lunch sessions. Please feel free to approach Jordana Dym or Katie Parker to chat about possible article topics, how to write an article, special issues, etc. 2/2 ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/registration2

The editors of Imago Mundi  are looking forward to attending ICHC 2024 in Lyon, France; editors will lead a workshop on Wednesday, 3 July on the map history community's thoughts on what a flagship journal should strive for as it looks towards a second century 1/2

upcoming Oxford Seminars in Cartography Bodleian Libraries 9 May 'Colonial counter-mappings: Learning from indigenous cartography in 18-cent America;' 13 June 'How did the chorographic tradition end? Picture maps and measurement in Renaissance France' info: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/tosca

This week we’ll explore the ways in which maps use art and masterful artistry in order to tell a story through mapmaking! From the 16 century to modern day, view the ways in which art has influenced map making since the beginning.

#bpl #LMEC #maps #bostonmaps #localhistory

In the latest issue of The Portolan, you can read an article by Chet van Duzer on 'Self-Representations by Cartographers on Maps'

Chapter 3 beer pairing at Sam Adams Boston Taproom w/ Head Brewer Megan Parisi who demonstrates the book version of double fisted!⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ ⁦Bodleian Publishing⁩ ⁦UChicagoPress⁩ ⁦Tara Nurin (she/her)⁩ #MeganParisi ⁦Sam Adams Beer⁩

Upcoming 👍📢 another good reason to join the Charles Close Society 😁👇charlesclosesociety.org

Hope to give this a try tomorrow!

Join me for “Craft Beer Tasting and Drink Maps' at this year’s Sedbergh Book Festival on Monday, May 27th at 7:30 at the People’s Hall Visit Sedbergh #ThirstyRambler
Sedbergh is a book town!
#BookTown #BooksAndBeer  

What beer pairs well with Chapter 3? Come back Sunday!

This is a reminder that our 'Mapping the March': Spring 2024 Seminar Series is due to commence on the 13th of May with a paper delivered by DrVickyFlood

Please feel free to share this poster to anyone who would be interested in attending!

#medieval #MappingtheMarch #seminar