Mapping the Arts and Humanities Blog

Much of what we now call innovation began as grassroots practice. Our second postcard from Nottingham visits the archives and community organisations doing that crucial work (collecting, preserving, and connecting people to their own histories) and introduces the...

What happens when you put an infrastructure map on a table for three days and ask people whether it has represented them accurately? The Law and the Humanities Map went to the 27th British Legal History Conference in Nottingham to find out.

This week the Mapping the Arts and Humanities team is bringing a freshly upgraded Law and the Humanities Map to the 27th British Legal History Conference, hosted by the University of Nottingham from 1-4 July 2026.

What happens when arts and humanities scholars and Research Software Engineers shape a research question together from the start? ScholarTHON spent two days at Oxford’s Weston Library finding out. Here’s what they made, what they said afterwards, and the four-stage journey that took them from question to workflow.

In this companion piece to the Mapping the Arts and Humanities Podcast, Professor Jacqueline Hodgson (University of Warwick), Dr Nicole Bögelein (University of Cologne), and Sophie Marois (University of Toronto) discuss what creative practice brings to research in law, policing, and criminology and how a map might better represent the cross-sector work it depends on.

Hackathons emerged among software developers in the late 1990s, built around a particular kind of work. ScholarTHON, a two-day event on 2–3 June at Oxford’s Weston Library, rebuilds the format for arts and humanities research. MAHP is delighted to support it alongside the Data/Culture project, the Bodleian’s Centre for Digital Scholarship, and Digital Scholarship @Oxford. Registration is free; no coding experience required.

The Law and the Humanities Map made its first in-person appearance at the Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference (University of Sussex, 30 March – 1 April 2026). This post shares what happened when delegates got hands-on with the resource and the...

In this companion piece to the Mapping the Arts and Humanities Podcast, Niilante Ogunsola-Ribeiro and Simon Parr explore how RESHAPED, a free peer-reviewed training platform hosted at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London is building connected learning pathways across the humanities.

Humanities scholars across the UK are shaping critical thinking and practical action around AI. But the work is scattered across institutions and websites, which is making connections harder to spot. Mapping the Humanities and AI is a map in development that will visualise this activity, highlight networks and gaps, and support collaboration across research, policy, and practice.

Michael Peak joins us for the "Knowledge Diplomacy in Context" series, which spotlights real-world practices and case studies in the sector, to explore how the British Council turns international education and research partnership into long-term resilience and...