I found myself poring over my maps when I got home from the British Library. I spent ages comparing them and places I knew with what I’d seen at the fascinating Magnificent Maps: Power ...

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art opens at the British Library on Friday, April 30. The exhibition features dozens of large-scale display maps, some dating back many centuries, which ...

One map that best shows the British Empire’s interests is “A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements,” created by Henry Popple in 1733. It was intended ...

Tabish Khan Maps (Lots Of Maps) At The British Library Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line, British Library 4 A map showing the way to escape from an under siege Sarajevo in 1996 ...

These Colorful Propaganda Maps Fueled 20th-Century Wars. Maps made to persuade the public during times of conflict can be beautiful, terrifying, funny, and informative.

In 1952, British troops were fighting independence movements in Egypt and Kenya. They would go on to lose both, and many others. By 1979, the British empire was reduced to a few pockets around the ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Rare cartographic gems mapping the world from 200 B.C. to the present go on display at the British Library in London. "Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor accuses Michael Gove of ‘propaganda’ over teaching of British Empire in schools ‘What was happening in the empire was and still isn’t taught’ ...

Ten plates used to print maps of the British Empire have been found in scrapyards. One of them, dated 1779, had been bought by a farmer in Norfolk to use as a mudguard for his tractor.