British town maps a history

Kain, Roger J. P.

British town maps a history - London British Library 2015 - 256p. ill maps 29cm.

Lavishly illustrated in colour, it tells the story of the mapping of urban Britain from the late middle ages until modern times. The text is accompanied by a comprehensive index of town maps which have been catalogued on an open-access electronic resource (http://townmaps.data.history.ac.uk/). Some of the maps in this book are well known, others have languished in obscurity, deep in archives, until revealed by the ten years' work of a British Academy research project on which this book is founded.

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Great Britain--1707-

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