We have just put together our usual assortment of Scottish maps news, research and notes over the last six months into our latest issue of Cairt:
http://www.nls.uk/media/1111572/cairt24.pdf
In this issue:
New website resources:
British First World War Trench Maps (1915-1918): http://maps.nls.uk/ww1/trenches/index.html
OS six-inch County Series - England and Wales (1842-1952): http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-england-and-wales/index.html
OS 25 inch Scotland georeferenced layer (1892-1905): http://maps.nls.uk/openlayers.cfm?m=1&id=168
NLS historic map layer in EDINA Digimap for Schools service: http://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/
Mapping Edinburgh Social History (MESH) update: http://www.mesh.ed.ac.uk/
NLS maps in Google Maps Gallery: https://maps.google.com/gallery/search?hl=en&q=national+library+of+scotland
The earliest printed atlas and map of Scotland... or not? A French edition of Guthrie's Geographical Grammar...
Puzzling over Geographical cubes in the 19th century
New publication - Concerning the Atlas of Scotland:
http://www.birlinn.co.uk/Concerning-the-Atlas-of-Scotland-And-Other-Poems.html
Recent Acquisitions - two Scottish maps of love?
Exhibition on 'Edinburgh Jews' - 1 August - 5 September 2014, NLS Causewayside Building
This and past issues of Cairt can all be read at:
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subject-info/cairt
Chris Fleet
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