On Maps

Underground Gallery

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...

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...

Deep Purple: Bryars & Bryars Ride the Elizabeth Line

Deep Purple: Bryars & Bryars Ride the Elizabeth...

Tim and Pinda explore the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of Crossrail travel and London's new Underground diagram

Deep Purple: Bryars & Bryars Ride the Elizabeth...

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

Beyond Claret Country: Louis Larmat and the Fir...

New maps for new appellations: the story of the first national wine atlas

Beyond Claret Country: Louis Larmat and the Fir...

New maps for new appellations: the story of the first national wine atlas

The Man Who Sacked Harry Beck: Rethinking Harold Hutchison

The Man Who Sacked Harry Beck: Rethinking Harol...

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 Man Who Sacked Harry Beck: Rethinking Harol...

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...

Mind The Gap! Underground mapmakers revealed...

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...

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...

How Can They This Blight Endure? William Wordsworth Objects to the Kendal & Windermere Railway

How Can They This Blight Endure? William Wordsw...

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...

How Can They This Blight Endure? William Wordsw...

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...