Brief videos of my new exhibition at OML, in lieu of a web-version or printed catalog (both coming eventually). The show itself will hang through 29 June 2024.

Bernard Sleigh’s wonderful 1917 panorama and the British fad for all things fairy

(I can’t believe I failed to blog this before now!)

on the first facsimile collections of early maps produced in Paris in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, and their role in the formation of globalist and settler-colonial map history.

on the history of determining lat and long

Peter Benes’s incredibly wide-ranging map exhibition of 1980 marks the shifting nature of “the history of cartography” (and of folklore studies), establishing a pattern followed by several later exhibitions dedicated to the unity of cartography, even as the diverse array of materials in the exhibition put the lie to that unity.

Let’s revisit Boggs and Lewis’s 1945 guide that is REALLY USEFUL but that everyone seems to have forgotten about! With a challenge to modern lovers of map projections!!!

Further to my interest in the history of map exhibitions, here’s an account of one I was led to yesterday by Benjamin Benus. It’s a modernist history of cartography as part of a grand wartime effort to redefine geography “for the future”

Several of the presentations from the 2016 series of the Nebenzahl Lectures, by me, Pegg, Schulten, and Akerman