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Catch Them Young! Introducing children to meaningful mapworkZoom Meeting #28, 20th August 2024. 'Catch Them Young! Introducing children to meaningful mapwork.'

  • Presenter: Peter Vujakovič
  • Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
  • View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 20m

This talk discusses recent work in partnership with the Historic Towns Trust, the British Cartographic Society, and Canterbury Christ Church University to support teachers in the developing meaningful map and fieldwork for history and geography at Primary level, using OS maps, both contemporary and historical, as well as other maps sources and remote sensing imagery.

Peter Vujakovič is Emeritus Professor of Geography, Canterbury Christ Church University. He is editor of 'Maplines', the magazine of the British Cartographic Society (BCS) and a member of Commissions on Education & Training, Cartography & Children and History of Cartography for the International Cartographic Association (ICA).

 

Zoom Meeting #27, 16th July 2024. 'Turning an OS into history, publishing a Town & City Historical Map'

  • Presenter: Giles Darkes
  • Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
  • Attendees: 49
  • View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 17m

Giles Darkes is the Cartographic Editor for the Historic Towns Trust (HTT) and manages their mapping and atlas projects.  He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Cartography at Oxford Brookes University.

The Historic Towns Trust has for some years been producing and publishing 1:2500 historical maps in their Town & City Historical Maps series which aim to summarise a town's growth on a map.  They show the sites of historical importance, both surviving and vanished and they're accompanied by an explanatory text and illustrations.

At the heart of them is a digitised OS map and, in this talk, Giles looks at the process of taking the OS base map and transforming it into a coloured historical map. He used the HTT's Historical Map of Cambridge, launched in December 2023 as the main example, but touch on other mapping projects already published and in preparation.

 

Zoom Meeting #26, 23rd April 2024. 'Beneath the lines: mapping medieval townscapes using large scale OS maps'

  • Presenter: Keith Lilley
  • Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
  • Attendees: 41
  • View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 31m

What lies beneath the lines on the map? The larger scale OS maps of Great Britain and Ireland show features of the historic urban landscape in great detail.

In this talk, Keith Lilley explained the importance and significance of these cartographic features for mapping out the origins and evolution of our towns and cities. The lines on the map are a 'window' onto a much more distant medieval past, helping us to see how urban landscapes took shape on the ground so many centuries ago.

 

Zoom Meeting #25, 23rd January 2024. 'The Ordnance surveys of Kent of 1788 and 1795'

  • Presenter: Dr. Rob Wheeler
  • Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
  • Attendees: 27
  • View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 20m

Dr. Rob Wheeler presented what started off as a ramble through the OSDs but developed a focus on two rather beautiful maps of Kent, drawn at a time when the engraved one-inch was at most a bright idea that might or might not come to pass.

There will still be a few digressions en route, including what might be claimed as the earliest OS map that can be viewed online and an intriguing series of Specials that never happened.