{"id":1787924,"date":"2019-10-24T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787924"},"modified":"2019-10-24T19:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:09:43","slug":"h-maps-a-new-discussion-list-about-map-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/h-maps-a-new-discussion-list-about-map-history\/","title":{"rendered":"H-Maps, a New Discussion List About Map History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the imminent shutdown of Yahoo Groups, and the lamented demise of MapHist in 2012, discussion lists are still a thing, it seems: H-Net, that venerable purveyor of academic discussion lists since I <\/em>was in academia, has, with the collaboration of the International Society for the History of the Map, launched<\/a> H-Maps<\/a>, \u201can international digital forum in the historical study of the making, circulation, use and preservation of maps from the ancient to the contemporary period.\u201d Scholarly in focus, to be sure.<\/p>\n

Tony Campbell lists other discussion lists related to map history here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the imminent shutdown of Yahoo Groups, and the lamented demise of MapHist in 2012, discussion lists are still a thing, it seems: H-Net, that venerable purveyor of academic discussion lists since I was in… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[115,1399,312,1113],"class_list":["post-1787924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-history","tag-academe","tag-discussion-lists","tag-history-of-cartography","tag-ishmap","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1810754,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/12\/map-history-books-published-in-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787924,"position":0},"title":"Map History Books Published in 2022","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 December 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Matthew Edney lists the books about map history that (to his knowledge) were published in 2022. 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