Six years ago the British Library put on a much appreciated exhibition of maps of London curated by the head of its map collections, Peter Barber. At the same time, it published a book by Peter Whitfield that, though ostensibly on the same subject, was in no sense a catalogue of the exhibition. Running these two things together was confusing.

Now at last comes this huge and beautiful book, produced with assistance from the London Topographical Society, which reflects the care and scholarship that went into the original exhibition. There are many things in it I have been delighted to find again, including some plans for what never was. Before

Literary Review

Nov 2012

Categories

Gillian Tindall

Order, Order, Amen

Let the Tills Ring Out

Everyday Edens

The Past Is Another Cupboard

Pilgrims, Poets & Prostitutes

Immortal, Invisible

To Preserve or Not to Preserve?

From Mont Blanc to Magaluf

Last Orders at the Dockers’ Inn

Where Estate Agents Fear to Tread

After Hours in the Museum

Mr Salteena’s Comportment Classes

When the Thames Ran into the Rhine

Not for Children

A Leaf Less Ordinary

Crashing to Earth

Great Scott

Track Changes

Model Settlements

Don’s Delight

Lines of Site

Soupçons of Bouillon

Sanctuary in the Mountains

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Kirkcaldy to Calcutta