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Found in a box
Looking through a box of uncatalogued maps, plots and diagrams I came across several manuscript architectural plans of the Midland Grand Hotel, London. Now named the St Pancras Hotel it is an iconic...
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Treasure Unearthed!
Treasure Unearthed! Shelf checking a printed book collection I came upon an uncatalogued atlas which looked very interesting. Although it had engraved and letterpress title pages for Visscher’s Atlas...
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Going South
The early 20th century was the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration with the competition between a handful of men really pushing the boundaries of discovery and survey. Ernest Shackleton was at the...
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Cycling Then and Now
The recent changes to the Highway Code set us thinking about the origin of cycling maps and their development. We have maps going back to 1887 but cycling routes were described purely by text earlier...
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The Free State of Ikaria
Maps often come with extras; a street index with a town plan, a distance table with a road map or just general tourist information for example but in what is a first for us we’ve just catalogued a map...
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Bacon, lamb – the strange and wonderful maps of Operation Clipper
Launched in November 1944 Operation Clipper was a combined British and American attempt to reduce a salient around the German town of Geilenkirchen before the start of a larger operation, Operation...
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Beavers
Talk in the news of beavers roaming across Welsh gardens brings this map to mind… A new and exact map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye continent of North America containing...
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A horse?
Chalk figures on hillsides are not uncommon especially in southern Britain but they still retain the air of mystery. What are some of them? Who created them? Why are they there? They also caused an...
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First destroy this map…
Using maps for games is nothing new, we’ve blogged a number of times about card (here) and board (here) games but this is a first, a game you can only play if you destroy the map first. Secret...
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Prussia pausing…
Few maps manage to combine cartography, history and sheer bonkersness with such good effect as Prussia pausing, or the accurate armistice demarcation line. In the map the neck and face of a lion are...
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