London June Weekend
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This year there will be three lectures over the June map weekend: the IMCoS
Malcolm Young Lecture will be given on Friday and the newly established
London Map Fair Lectures will be held during the map fair on the following
two days.
Friday June 6th
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Nick Millea gives the Malcolm Young Lecture, "The Gough Map:
Britain's Road Map or a statement of Empire". This forms part of the IMCoS
Annual Dinner at the East India Club. For details, see the Society's website
< http://www.imcos.org/Events_2006F.htm >
Then there are two further talks, *open to all*, on consecutive days, at the
London Map Fair, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7
2AD. This is open: Saturday June 7, 12.00-19.00; Sunday June 8 10.00-17.00.
< http://www.londonmapfairs.com/ >
Still the only specialist map fair in the UK and the largest in Europe, with
40 international exhibitors offering maps, charts, town plans, atlases,
globes, views and reference books of all periods and to suit all pockets.
There will be lectures at 14.30 daily in the Ondaatje Theatre. All are
welcome. Our distinguished inaugural guest speakers are Peter Barber and
Laurence Worms.
Saturday June 7th
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Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, British Library:
Fixing the image: the mapping of London 297-1900. The mapping of London has
been marked by the appearance of a limited number of influential images that
provided the model for subsequent commercially-published maps. These 'great
maps' were intended to impress and they carry interesting cultural and
political messages about the times in which they were created. Side-by-side
were the smaller maps generally created in London for use by Londoners.
These reveal very different Londons from the images contained in the big
maps. Taken together they provide an interesting commentary on Londoners and
their relations with the wider world through the ages.
Sunday June 8th
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Laurence Worms of Ash Rare Books & the London Rare Books
School: Fixing the Map Trade: The London of the 18th Century London
Mapmakers. An exploration of the locally produced maps of London of the
eighteenth century, not as a means of defining London, but as a means of
defining the map trade itself - in terms of location, local preoccupations,
collaboration and rivalry, increasing sophistication, growing ambition, and
ultimate maturity.
{posted to lismaps and MapHist on behalf of Tim Bryars
< www.timbryars.co.uk >}
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