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.

 

 

 

 

THE OXFORD SEMINARS IN CARTOGRAPHY

 

24th Annual Series

 

Programme for 2016-2017:

 

                                               

Thursday 3 November 2016

Mapping and the Falklands Conflict, 1982: how mapping helped British forces retake the Islands against the odds

John Peaty

(Defence Geographic Centre Joint Forces Intelligence Group)

 

                                               

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

(Science Museum)

 

 

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)

ˇ         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

 

 

Seminars run from 4.30pm to 6.00pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG; Join us for refreshments in the Weston Café from 3.45pm

 

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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