I have been having great fun reading F V Botley’s 1952 MA thesis on patterns of usage of world map projections in USA and UK, 1850–1950

I’ve been trying to figure it out … what is the significance today of all that sturm und drang?

The annual round up of new books in map history, as I’ve noticed/seen/found.

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.