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...

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...

Websites lapse, links break, and important history can slip through the digital cracks. Our third and final postcard from Nottingham steps back to think about the shapes research infrastructure takes: centres inside universities, a new network on a two-year pilot, learned societies run on subscriptions, and a charity that maps Britain’s towns from the ground up.

This FAQ is here to help you get the most out of the Law and the Humanities Map.  It covers questions on how to search, what our filters mean, or how we define terms like "Law" or "entanglement." It's also where we unpack some of the choices behind the map's design...

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.

Across universities and cultural institutions, there is a growing recognition that the discipline of “law” does not operate in isolation. It shapes and is shaped by the histories, languages, communities, and social practices that surround it. Researchers in 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.

James Campbell (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford) joins us on the Mapping the Arts and Humanities blog to discuss the theoretical challenges and opportunities behind the Law and the Humanities Infrastructure Map, exploring how the project moves beyond...

LHub and MAHP are launching a new open-access map dedicated to Law and Humanities research collectives across the UK.  This post introduces the map's features, invites beta testers, and provides information as to how interested research collectives can get...

This blog post shares key findings from recent focus groups on LHub’s Law and the Humanities Map. It highlights how the map supports discovery and collaboration, reflects on community feedback around tagging and visibility, and outlines upcoming improvements designed...