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From our How To Read Maps series: we examine puffery and policy in map dedication

 

On the trail of Mary Camige and Mary Sims, poster artists and co-owners of the Portman Bookstore

Lives of the lesser-known London Underground map-makers

A tentative investigation into a pavilion symbol that keeps turning up on maps with no explanation...

From our How To Read Maps series: the depiction of great estates as a distinctive and prominent feature of English county cartography

An exegesis of the use of antiquarian maps in James Bond films

The tiny travails of miniature book-binding

From our How To Read Maps series: mapping unexplored coastlines.

A closer look at ‘Hark, Hark! The Dogs do Bark!’, one of the better known satirical maps published shortly after the outbreak of war in 1914.

Finding Charles Pearson at West Norwood Cemetery, which is especially rich in dead members of the map trade.

Pioneering large-scale statistical maps might sound dry as dust, but as Iain Sinclair writes in his foreword to this volume, they have a ‘morbid beauty’. Sinclair is an inspired choice to lead us in to Charles Booth's London.

Everyone's a sucker for 'lost' or 'abandoned' tunnels, and we at Bryars & Bryars are no exception.