Mary, Mary: Where Did Your Bookshop Go?
On the trail of Mary Camige and Mary Sims, poster artists and co-owners of the Portman Bookstore
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Underground Gallery
The London Underground is the world’s oldest underground railway. In the decade or so that I’ve been specialising in Tube maps I’ve seen spiralling interest in collecting the cartographic record of 150 years of underground travel. Hundreds of maps have...
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Deep Purple: Bryars & Bryars Ride the Elizabeth Line
Tim and Pinda explore the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of Crossrail travel and London's new Underground diagram -
Beyond Claret Country: Louis Larmat and the First National Wine Atlas
New maps for new appellations: the story of the first national wine atlas -
The Man Who Sacked Harry Beck: Rethinking Harold Hutchison
A deeper dive into the life and works of Harold F Hutchison, a London underground map designer mostly famous for sacking Harry Beck. We've done our share of Hutch-shaming over the years, so consider this a mea culpa... -
Mind The Gap! Underground mapmakers revealed...
Let’s look at three names which appear on maps of the London underground: WE Soar, JC Betts, and EG Perman. These names are familiar but normally catalogued (by me and everyone else, including the Transport Museum) with surname and initials as given, without further elucidation. Who were they? -
How Can They This Blight Endure? William Wordsworth Objects to the Kendal & Windermere Railway
This ‘Plan of the Kendal & Windermere Railway with the centre of the Lake District’ was published in Liverpool by the firm of Maclure, MacDonald & MacGregor circa 1850. The Lancaster & Carlisle Railway has been coloured blue, the Kendal...
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Provenance-On-Sea: A Coastal Pilot's Tale
The atlas in front of me has quite a story. Published at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, this is a British-produced pilot book. It's a marine atlas with charts, coastal profiles and descriptive text, which in this case...
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‘Oh the blue of the Danube is greener than green’
Allegory, symbolism and stunning colour in Blaeu’s map of the river Danube -
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Plaster Relief Map of Sussex...
It's not pizza, it's a map. -
Playing with Maps: Taking a Tour Through Napoleonic Europe with the Dartons.
A successful business built on strong values: it's game night with the Dartons. -
Charles Pearson and the origins of the Met, the world’s first underground railway
The London labyrinth and the origins of the Metropolitan Railway -
4-line Whip: A UERL Mapping Mystery
Whip it good: colour-coding the Underground
