Today, the London Transport Museum unveils a new permanent gallery in its space in Covent Garden, called “London by Design“. The gallery includes a number
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Bauerkeller’s New Embossed Plan
Is this London’s first 3D map? The vivid and historic map of London in 1842, coloured by district, has one unusual feature – it’s embossed.
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The London Blue Plaque Guide
London has a lot of history, of course, and a lot of blue plaques have been erected by English Heritage over the years to mark
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Currency and Cartography
Currency and Cartography is an solo exhibition by artist Justine Smith, available to view in the gallery space at The Map House in Knightsbridge, a
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Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945
Several years ago, we featured some striking maps from a small exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive. Each map was a detailed plan of a
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Green Wedges
This map, “A Plan for Greater London”, is a 1943 masterplan for the rebuilding and enlargement of London, following the damage of the Blitz. Instead
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London Railway Atlas (4th ed)
The London Railway Atlas is probably the most detailed map of London’s myriad of tube, train and tram lines, past and present, that you are
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London in Miniature: Mogg’s 1806 Pocket Map
From Geographicus, a US map dealer, by way of a tweet by Rentonomy, an article in CityMetric and a collaboration with Wikimedia, comes this high-resolution
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Barbican: Before and After the Blitz
Here is an interesting concept by illustrator Russell Bell. He’s taken a pre-WWII (World War 2) monochrome map of the Barbican area of London (the
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A Retro Style Map
This map, created by illustrator/designer Mike Hall (we previously featured his borough maps) is simply called the “Central London retro style map“. It’s a brand
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British Empire Exhibition 1924
This colourful, much adorned map was produced as a fold-out poster on the back of the official guide for the British Empire Exhibition which took
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London’s Sites of Medical Interest 1913
Published in 1913 (and available to download from the Wellcome Library) this series of intriguing maps depict London’s “sites of medical interest”. It looks like
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