Historian's Guide to Early British Maps: A Guide to the Location of Pre-1900 Maps of the British Isles Preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland

by Edited by Helen Wallis , Anita McConnell

• ISBN13: 9780521551526
• ISBN10: 0521551528
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Part I. The History and Purpose of Maps: 1. List of essays on regional and specialised maps

2. Editor's introduction

3. Essays on regional and specialised maps

Part II. The Repositories: 4. Sources of information for Part II

5. Note on stray manuscript maps

6. Maps in the colleges of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge

7. Abbreviations

8. Old standards of length and map scales

8. Key to arrangement of entries

9. The repositories for England, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man

10. The repositories for Wales

11. The repositories for Scotland

12. The repositories for Northern Ireland

13. The repositories for Ireland

Index to repositories.