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An intriguing late 18th Century mystery of map authorship finally solved: the French “Pimpernel” is at last unveiled…

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An intriguing late 18th Century mystery of map authorship finally solved: the French “Pimpernel” is at last unveiled…

April 9, 2024January 30, 2025

Writing in Treasures from the Map Room ((Ed. Debbie Hall) Bodleian Libraries, 2016), Assistant Map Librarian John Mackrell highlighted one of the most curious and intriguing maps in the Bodleian’s remarkable collections. It is a map whose mysterious authorship and…

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Ernest Dudley Chase & Oliver K Whiting and their “Mercator (& Peace) Map of the World United”, 1944-1945

October 27, 2021October 29, 2021

Between 1942 and 1950, American pictorial mapmaker, Ernest Dudley Chase [1878-1966], published a series of three remarkable large-scale Mercator-projection World maps that bear witness to the seismic changes that took place in the military and geopolitical situation around the Globe…

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George Spencer Hoffman [1875-1950]: a forgotten genius of pictorial mapping

August 25, 2021August 26, 2021

George Spencer Hoffman [1875-1950] enjoyed a remarkable and fascinating life of some 74 years, one which began in the affluent suburbs of south west London….

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