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“A patched-up treaty of Peace that humiliates nobody except England”: Rock Brothers & Payne’s 1856 Treaty map depicting Europe at the end of the Crimean War

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“A patched-up treaty of Peace that humiliates nobody except England”: Rock Brothers & Payne’s 1856 Treaty map depicting Europe at the end of the Crimean War

March 30, 2017May 31, 2017

Yesterday, March 29th 2017, marked an historic landmark in British relations with Europe, with the delivery of Theresa May’s letter to Donald Tusk triggering Article 50 of the 2007 Lisbon Treaty and Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union by March…

“Flying Visit of Truth to Berlin in the form of an RAF leaflet raid…”: Rex Whistler’s satirical map commemorating the first RAF flight over wartime Berlin, October 1939

January 7, 2017November 22, 2022

From the very first day of the Second World War, September 3rd-4th 1939, and for the ensuing months of hostilities, the British RAF’s fleet of heavy Whitley bombers became the principal weapons in an experimental war of aerial propaganda. A…

The Mem-O-Maps of John G Drury, 1945-46

October 12, 2016January 25, 2017

The Mem-O-Maps of John G Drury, 1945-46 The vibrantly colourful pictorial Mem-O-Maps designed and first published in early 1946 by Colorado native, John Gottlieb Drury [1907-1988] came into being as a direct result of two years’ service with the US…

Politics personified: Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1

March 11, 2016February 16, 2023

Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1 In W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan’s famous comic operetta, Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri [1882], which so cleverly lampoons the British peerage and House of…

The persuasive power of maps – the Danzig Crisis & Nazi propaganda map postcards, 1933-1939

August 10, 2015January 24, 2017

The Danzig Crisis and Nazi propaganda map postcards, 1933-1939 Following the Munich Conference & Agreement in late September 1938, the Free City of Danzig became the focal point of frenetic diplomatic activity as efforts were made to address Germany’s increasingly…

Europe in 1915 – German perspectives on the war through two sets of satirical propaganda maps

July 30, 2015January 25, 2017

Two pairs of German satirical propaganda maps of Europe published in Hamburg in 1915 Exactly one hundred years ago, at the end of July 1915, after the successes of the preceding Gorlice-Tarnow campaign and the recapture by Austrian forces of…

1854: Clipping the Russian Bear’s Claws – “Rock & Droll” – The Comic Map of Europe is born…..

June 9, 2015March 30, 2017

Strolling around the London Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society last weekend, I was delighted to have drawn to my attention a mid-19th Century Comic map of Europe which, to my great surprise, I had never seen nor encountered…

A Scotsman’s visit to the Montmartre home of Maurice Neumont, August 1915

May 27, 2015January 24, 2017

Maurice Neumont [1868-1930] was one of the leading French illustrators and poster artists of the late 19th & early 20th Century. Born in Paris in September 1868, he apparently learned his craft at an early age, charcoal or chalk in…

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