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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Georgian Game Night
Cake, counties and competition at the Bryars vs Bryars board game night -
How To Read Maps: Blind Date
Dating woes aren't just for single people - married antiquarian book and map dealers know the struggle is real -
The Majesty of Maps
The kings and queens of cartography, or why it might be useful when making maps to use a ruler -
Points of View: Complaints from Halifax
Locked carriages, broken hats, and furious German yeast importers - just some of the delights in this original complaints book spanning 75 years from the opening of Halifax railway station in 1844 -
How To Read Maps: Dedication, That's What You Need
From our How To Read Maps series: we examine puffery and policy in map dedication
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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 -
Still Minding The Gap
Lives of the lesser-known London Underground map-makers -
John Speed's Big Top Mystery
A tentative investigation into a pavilion symbol that keeps turning up on maps with no explanation... -
Noble Seats & How To Spot Them
From our How To Read Maps series: the depiction of great estates as a distinctive and prominent feature of English county cartography -
A Quantum of Knowledge
An exegesis of the use of antiquarian maps in James Bond films -
Thumbing Through The Bible: Restoration in Miniature
The tiny travails of miniature book-binding -
Joining The Dots
From our How To Read Maps series: mapping unexplored coastlines.
