Next week will be a busy one in London for those interested in early maps:
Tuesday 26 October. The Eva G.R. Taylor Annual Lecture, at the Royal
Geographical Society at 6.30 p.m., given by Francis Herbert, Hon. FRGS,
Curator of Maps at the RGS: '". . . to mesure and compace the hevyn and erth
and all the world large": the RGS-IBG Collections Taylored for study'. For
details of the pay bar beforehand, and the post-lecture supper, see
http://www.hakluyt.com/.
Thursday 28 October. First talk in the new 'Maps and Society' series: Dr
David Hill (Department of English, University of
Manchester) Laurence Nowell's Anglo-Saxon Atlas of 1563. Warburg Institute,
University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm. Admission is
free. Meetings are followed by refreshments.
The full 'Maps and Society' programme can be seen at <
http://www.maphistory.info/warburgprog.html >, while details of these and
other forthcoming talks relating to maps can be found in John Docktor's
'Calendar' < http://home.earthlink.net/~docktor/index.htm >
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