Edney, Matthew H. 2025. Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations. Leiden: Brill.

Again, why one must always — always! — look at the original if one can!

“Historical Geography and the Cartographic Illusion of Exceptionalism” – With a link for free download, available until 9 July 2025 !!

What happens when someone does not cite a source properly, and misleads readers a century later!

Single-volume histories of cartography are very much a twentieth-century phenomenon.

Mark Denil has been using me as a punching bag. I punch back. Here’s an image of weary people looking at a map (of the Chicago World’s Fair 1893)

A translation of Arnold Heeren’s prospectus for a new field of study … map history!

Challenging the received wisdom about the 1797 facsimile of a fifteenth-century mappamundi made from metal with enamel inlay proves not to be as easy as I had thought, and I hit the limits of the study of digital images. So, something of a cautionary tale.

Jerry Brotton and I talk about the 1662 world map by Joan Blaeu, commercial mapping in 17th century Amsterdam, the History of Cartography Project, women and mapping, and how I got interested in early maps!