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Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945

1 September 2015 Ollie Historic

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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London in Miniature: Mogg’s 1806 Pocket Map

6 February 2015 Ollie Historic

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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Simplifying London’s Network – “Mappi Lundi”, A Hand Drawn Map

24 July 2013 Ollie Art

Mappa Lundi is a hand-drawn map of central London which simplifies the street network, districts, parks and tourist attractions into a simple, pseudo-grid like structure.

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Arty Globe: A Quirky View of London

26 January 2012 Ollie Art

This cartoon of the area around Trafalgar square is a small section of a rather interesting caricature created by Hartwig Braun, of a view of

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The Booth Poverty Map

11 April 2011 Ollie People

Charles Booth’s 1899 Poverty Map of London is a seminal work in the history of London maps and the development of geodemographics (characterising people based

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