Adam Dant has, for a long time, been sketching lovely maps of London history, culture and phenomena, often focusing in particular on the historic East
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Underground Railways of London, 1928
The Tube Map is a design classic – the straight lines, even spacing and lack of unnecessary above-ground detail has become a hall-mark of metro
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Chiswick Timeline
The Chiswick Timeline, a mural of maps showing the history of the pleasant west London neighbourhood, was successfully crowdfunded and launched last month. It appears
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Children’s Map of London
The Children’s Map of London (sometimes called the Children’s Pictorial Map of London) was drawn by Leslie Bullock and first published by Bartholomew in 1938,
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Songs of London Town
Songs of London Town replaces street names with song names. The pastel coloured, hand-drawn basemap is overlaid with hundreds of song titles, each arranged over
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TfL’s Corporate Archives
The Corporate Archives division of Transport for London recently held a short internal exhibition at their headquarters at Palestra, called “Mapping London” and showcasing new
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The Woodcut Map
We normally feature “modern” maps on Mapping London, however this map despite being also known as the Map of Early Modern London, is certainly not
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Christmas List 2016
Welcome to the Mapping London Christmas List 2016! Not long now until Christmas Day – if you are having a last minute present crisis, our
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Lost London
London has a great collection of grand buildings, famous bridges and other urban objects that delight tourists and residents alike, but there’s quite a few
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Art Deco London Map
Following on from their Brutalist London Map, Blue Crow Media have moved back a few decades and produced this new map of Art Deco London.
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Locating London’s Past
As an update to our previous feature on a replica map set of the John Rocque eighteenth century map of London, we feature the Locating
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Winding Streets
Here’s an attractive map commissioned by The Watch Gallery to highlight some of the key places in London, in the development of timekeeping. From the
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