Hello Folks,
We are just sending out our July 2017 issue of Cairt: the Newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum.
This is available as a PDF (1.3Mb) at http://www.nls.uk/media/1499580/cairt31.pdf
The main news items cover new online maps, a new online search interface, recent and forthcoming map publications, two competitions, recent research dating a Pont map, news of a significant recent map collection acquisition, and details of our new Maps Reading Room.
New online map resources:
In the last six months we have put online an additional 25,000 maps, taking our online total now to over 194,000 maps. Our main additions have been:
- OS 1:1,250-1:2,500 National Grid maps of Scotland, 1940s-1960s: http://maps.nls.uk/os/national-grid/index.html
- OS 25 inch County Series of England, 1841-1952 completion: http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-england-and-wales/index.html
- OS 1:126,720 Ministry of Transport Road Maps of SCotland, 1923: http://maps.nls.uk/os/half-inch-mot-roads/index.html
- Kitchener's Survey of Cyprus, 1882: http://maps.nls.uk/cyprus/
- Scottish History Society - full text of series available online: http://digital.nls.uk/scottish-history-society-publications/
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New Search interface for all our maps - Find by Place - with Marker: http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/marker/
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New historic map search interfaces for three recent websites showcasing other Library collections:
- Journals of Henrietta Liston, 1796-1801: http://digital.nls.uk/travels-of-henrietta-liston/map/
- Thomas Annan’s photographs of Glasgow tenements, late 1860s: http://digital.nls.uk/learning/thomas-annan-glasgow/historical-maps/
- Iolaire disaster, Stornoway, 1919: http://digital.nls.uk/learning/iolaire/en/map.html
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Recent map publications: 'Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian', by Charles W.J. Withers
Forthcoming map publications: 'The Clyde: mapping the river', by John Moore
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John Slezer Photography Competition: http://www.nls.uk/photo-competition
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New evidence for dating Pont's maps - Pont 6 and the Battle of Glenlivet, by Daibhidh Grannd
Pont-Blaeu Gazetteer progress, by Bob Henery: http://geo.nls.uk/maps/pont-blaeu/
New acquisition - the Smith Map Collection
New Maps Reading Room at NLS from September. We will be open for four days a week, but with a much smaller reading room, and with access by appointment only.
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...and our usual Cairt Competition - two copies of the Scottish Maps Calendar 2018 ( https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Scottish-Maps-Calendar-2018.html ) to be won.
This issue of Cairt is available at: http://www.nls.uk/media/1499580/cairt31.pdf with all back issues at: http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subject-info/cairt
Chris Fleet
Map Curator | Collections and Research Department
National Library of Scotland
159 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PH
Tel: 0131 623 4670
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: maps.nls.uk
Twitter: @natlibscotmaps
National Library of Scotland, Scottish Charity, No: SCO11086
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