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Layers of London

26 September 2018 Ollie Historic

Layers of London, which has just launched, aims to be a platform for geolocating and documenting the local history of the capital. It works by

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Lost London

6 June 2016 Ollie Art, Historic

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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Currency and Cartography

28 September 2015 Ollie Art, Historic

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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Exotic Adornments and Old Maps: The Art of Kristjana S Williams

27 February 2015 Ollie Art

Artist Kristjana S Williams, originally from Iceland but now based in west London, specialises in collages of vividly coloured, exotic creatures. A number of her

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Mapping London at the 10×10 Charity Auction

24 November 2014 Ollie Art

Mapping London editors James and Ollie were invited earlier this year to create a drawing for the 10×10 charity auction taking place later this week

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London, 100 Years Ago

1 September 2014 Ollie Historic

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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Victorian London in Incredible Detail

4 October 2013 Ollie Historic

Here’s a real treat. The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey

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Rocque’s Map of Georgian London, 1746

27 August 2013 Ollie Historic

Mapping London has always been most interested in modern maps of London, however we are happy to make the occasional exception, and so when this

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London’s Roman Roads

25 February 2013 Ollie Historic

Here is part of a map, The Map of Roman Britain, Second Edition, published by the Ordnance Survey in 1931 and scanned by Bibliographics. The

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