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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Planning and the Great Fire
The Wellcome Image Library contains a number of interesting maps of London that are all free to use. I recently spotted a couple relating to
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London, 100 Years Ago
The National Library of Scotland’s (NLS) Map Department has recently completed a huge georeferencing exercise, taking a set of Six-Inch-To-Mile (1:10560) maps for the whole
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Mapping Cholera
John Snow’s map of cholera has become one of the most iconic of an era when the importance of statistics and graphics were becoming recognised. The map
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The Other Underground Network
London has many networks – roads, tube trains, electricity, water – but there is another key one, one which was very important in allowing London
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The Evolution of London’s Streets
This animation shows how the roads in the London area formed, from Roman times through the industrial revolution and to the modern day. London’s boundary
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The Character of a Coffee House
This attractive hand-drawn map, by Adam Dant, is of the coffee houses of the City of London in the 1700s. Adam uses the gradual separation
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The King George III Map Collection
We were pleased to recently receive a number of hi-resolution scans of some very old and beautiful London maps, courtesy of the British Library, which
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Anglo-Saxon London
Earlier this week I did a “map swap” with Matt Brown, editor of Londonist, the popular London website. This lovely hand-drawn map, created by Matt
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A Snapshot of London – 75 Years Ago
I was intrigued by this blog post of a lovely looking map of London’s Green Belt, dated 1939. The map can be compared a modern
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London Before the Houses
This map (full size version) is a plate in “A History of London” by John William Loftie which was published in 1884. It is one
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