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Currency and Cartography

Posted on Monday 28 September 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

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 specialist map dealer (and treasure trove crammed with thousands of other maps, globes, illustrations and other prints – be warned you will get lost browsing in this small but perfectly […]

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Art, gilded, gold, gold leaf, Historic, Justine Smith, Map House, old, old and new, painted, Smith, The Map House

Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945

Posted on Tuesday 1 September 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

Several years ago, we featured some striking maps from a small exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive. Each map was a detailed plan of a small part of London, the basemap being from 1916, with individual houses clearly shown. Many houses were just shown in white, but a number were coloured in various colours – […]

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blitz, bomb, buildings, colour, damage, Historic, War, world war, WWII

Green Wedges

Posted on Monday 1 June 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

This map, “A Plan for Greater London”, is a […]

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1943, Edwards, green belt, Historic, houses, masterplan, planning, policy, rebuilding

London Railway Atlas (4th ed)

Posted on Saturday 25 April 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

The London Railway Atlas is probably the most detailed […]

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atlas, diagram, dlr, Historic, layout, line, lines, rail, railway, Technical, TFL, track, tube

London in Miniature: Mogg’s 1806 Pocket Map

Posted on Friday 6 February 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

From Geographicus, a US map dealer, by way of a tweet b […]

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1806, colour, Historic, Mogg, pocket map

Barbican: Before and After the Blitz

Posted on Thursday 29 January 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

Here is an interesting concept by illustrator Russell B […]

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Art, Barbican, Historic, Housing, old and new, War

A Retro Style Map

Posted on Monday 17 November 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

This map, created by illustrator/designer Mike Hall (we […]

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Art, Historic, Mike Hall, old-as-new

British Empire Exhibition 1924

Posted on Wednesday 8 October 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

This colourful, much adorned map was produced as a fold […]

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1923, 1924, adornments, British Empire, Empire, exhibition, Historic, Kennedy North, North, stadium, tube

London’s Sites of Medical Interest 1913

Posted on Monday 6 October 2014 by James Cheshire

Published in 1913 (and available to download from the W […]

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1913, bacon, health, Historic, medical, medicine, wellcome

Planning and the Great Fire

Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2014 by James Cheshire

The Wellcome Image Library contains a number of interes […]

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City of London, great fire, Historic, london, planning, wren

London, 100 Years Ago

Posted on Monday 1 September 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

The National Library of Scotland’s (NLS) Map Depa […]

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Historic, old, ordnance survey, os, victorian

Mapping Cholera

Posted on Monday 23 June 2014 by James Cheshire

John Snow’s map of cholera has become one of the […]

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Broad Street, Cholera, Disease, epidemiology, health, Historic, John Snow, map wellcome, soho, visualisation, wellcome, wellcome collection

The Other Underground Network

Posted on Tuesday 10 June 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

London has many networks – roads, tube trains, el […]

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Bazelgette, Historic, network, sewers, Water

The Evolution of London’s Streets

Posted on Friday 16 May 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

This animation shows how the roads in the London area f […]

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animation, Events, Evolution, Historic, network, roads, roman, streets, victorian, Video, visualisation

The Character of a Coffee House

Posted on Monday 12 May 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

This attractive hand-drawn map, by Adam Dant, is of the […]

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adam dant, Art, city, coffee, hand drawn, Historic, local

The King George III Map Collection

Posted on Friday 4 April 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

We were pleased to recently receive a number of hi-reso […]

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1752, british library, collection, george, Historic, king, library, westminster

Anglo-Saxon London

Posted on Thursday 27 February 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

Earlier this week I did a “map swap” with M […]

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anglo-saxon, Art, hand drawn, Historic, Londonist, medieval

A Snapshot of London – 75 Years Ago

Posted on Friday 7 February 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

I was intrigued by this blog post of a lovely looking m […]

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London Before the Houses

Posted on Monday 13 January 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

This map (full size version) is a plate in “A His […]

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Fire Insurance Maps of London

Posted on Friday 20 December 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

The British Library has launched a portal to let people […]

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1889, british library, detail, fire, Historic, insurance., large scale, plan, plans

Hexagonal Map of London

Posted on Tuesday 17 December 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

This map is taken from an book “The Unification o […]

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geometry, hexagon, hexagonal, hexagons, Historic, localities, neighbourhoods, shapes, simple, simplified, structural

Hexagonal Map of London

Posted on Tuesday 17 December 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

This map is taken from an book “The Unification o […]

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1895, british library, geometry, hexagon, hexagonal, hexagons, Historic, localities, neighbourhoods, shapes, simple, simplified, structural

The Bastion of Liberty

Posted on Thursday 28 November 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

This decorative map was published in or around 1946, as […]

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Art, Historic

Wonderground Map

Posted on Friday 1 November 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

Above is a small part of the “Wonderground Map of […]

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Art, decorative, gill, Historic, macdonald, story, Transport, tube

London’s Health

Posted on Wednesday 30 October 2013 by James Cheshire

A great new resource has just been released by the Well […]

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1905, dealth, Demographics, Historic, London's pulse, medical officer of health, wellcome library

Victorian London in Incredible Detail

Posted on Friday 4 October 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

[Update – Links fixed to repoint to the correct version […]

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1896, black and white, Historic, london, mastermap, old, ordnance survey, os, streets, victorian

Rocque’s Map of Georgian London, 1746

Posted on Tuesday 27 August 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

Mapping London has always been most interested in moder […]

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black and white, Book, Historic, history, map, old, presentation, reproduction, rocque

Pictorial Map from The A to Z 1938 London Street Atlas

Posted on Thursday 11 July 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

The above map is an extract from a reproduction of the […]

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A to Z, A-Z, atlas, Historic, streets

Mapping From Hell: Pt1

Posted on Friday 10 May 2013 by James Cheshire

The epic graphic novel entitled “From Hell” […]

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from hell, Historic, jack the ripper, london, map

London’s Roman Roads

Posted on Monday 25 February 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

Here is part of a map, The Map of Roman Britain, Second […]

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Mapping the London Blitz

Posted on Friday 14 December 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

The London Blitz, from 1940-1941, was a traumatic event […]

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The Regent’s Canal

Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

A book, by author and illustrator David Fathers, has re […]

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Historic, Tourist

Mind the Map: A Map by Macdonald Gill

Posted on Friday 22 June 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

This is an extract of a map produced in 1928 for London […]

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Art, Historic

A Guide to London 1908

Posted on Thursday 31 May 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

The same day that James received a historic picture map […]

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Events, Historic

Bacon’s Picture Map of London

Posted on Friday 25 May 2012 by James Cheshire

I recently managed to get my hands on one of my favouri […]

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1908 olympics, bacon's picture map, Cartography, Franco-British exhbition, Historic

London Blitz Map

Posted on Thursday 22 March 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

The image above is a photo of part of a large map of Lo […]

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Old Maps Online

Posted on Tuesday 13 March 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

We probably don’t feature enough old maps of Lond […]

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Grand Map of London: A New Map in an Old Style

Posted on Monday 9 January 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

After featuring many very modern maps on Mapping London […]

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Art, Historic

A New Map of London Peculiars

Posted on Thursday 27 October 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather bril […]

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Planning London: Maps from King’s Court Galleries

Posted on Tuesday 18 October 2011 by James Cheshire

There is a shop in London that I always peer into when […]

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antique maps, Historic, historical plans, kings court galleries, london, planning london, visualisation

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