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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…

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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…

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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…

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Temperance Hotels & Comic Maps of Scotland – amid the skirl of bagpipes, an arresting & amusing Victorian mix

May 20, 2015March 29, 2016

Philp’s Comic Maps of Scotland My last post about Leslie George Bullock [1895-1971] referenced the National Library of Scotland’s invaluable Bartholomew Archive, a unique and unrivalled record of the business history and publications of one of Edinburgh’s leading map publishers….

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