The Daily Telegraph

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art

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 ...
The Hoya

Historian Maps End Of Empire

Aiyaz Husain, a historian with the Policy Studies Division of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and author of the recently published “Mapping the End of Empire: American and ...
Nature

The MP Atlas A Collection of Maps showing the Commercial and Political Interests of the British Isles and Empire throughout the World

THIS atlas consists of a series of maps chiefly representing the British Empire. They are very clearly printed, and some of them are decidedly good specimens of cartography. The bathyorographical map ...
Nature

Historical Atlas of the British Empire

A USEFUL cheap atlas with thirty-nine black and white maps of the British Empire. Most are only in outline, but a few show orographical features. The text consists solely of a chronological list of ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
insider.si.edu

[Fragments of maps depicting the Turkish empire and the British colonies in the Caribbean]

Collection of 2 map fragments, including one depicting the Ottoman Empire and another depicting British colonies in the Caribbean. Each fragment is detached from a larger map and measures ...