Dear All,
Cross-posted to various listservs and the Friends of TOSCA.
Here are details of this season’s “TOSCA” seminars in Oxford.
Please forward any queries to Nick Millea (contact details below).
Please note the pre-Christmas field trip, and a change of speaker for the March seminar.
24th Annual Series
Mapping and the Falklands Conflict, 1982: how mapping helped British forces retake the Islands against the odds
Thursday
9 March 2017
Exploring colonial administrative maps, their use and their disuse: “He asks for impossibilities… because his previous work has been in civilised neighbourhoods”
Elizabeth Haines
Thursday 25 May 2017
The Geological Section, Inter-Service Topographical Department: contributions by Oxford geologists, the Bodleian Library and thematic mapping to Allied military
intelligence during the Second World War
Edward P F Rose
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Thursday 1 December
2016
TOSCA Field Trip – Treasures from the Map Room: a journey through the Bodleian collections
Debbie Hall
(Bodleian Map Room)
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A chance to buy the new Bodleian map book at a special discounted pre-Christmas rate:
http://www.bodleianshop.co.uk/treasures-from-the-map-room.html
For further details contact
[log in to unmask] or 01865 287119
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by:
The Friends of TOSCA
ESRI (UK) Ltd
Oxford Cartographers
The British Cartographic Society
The Charles Close Society
The School of Geography and the Environment
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Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
Tel: 01865 287119
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps
Libguide …
http://ox.libguides.com/finding-maps
Map Room blog …
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
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