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007's car drives from Tokyo to London with help from Stanfords

Two adventurous British men have returned from a record-breaking epic charity drive from Tokyo to London in James Bond’s favourite car. The length of the Asian Highway and across Europe was driven by...

England - The Thames Path

Our guide was very changeable, even capricious, taking us in one direction and then another. Our guide was the River Thames and led us from the docklands of east London to the leafy settlements of Buckinghamshire...

Now we are 150

2003 has been, it seems, the year of exploration and travel anniversaries: celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Everest, the 100th of the first powered flight, the 80th...

Stanfords employee abseils down world's tallest hospital building

Our Stanfords branch supply officer, Martyn Bearfoot, completed an amazing feat against vertigo when he abseiled down the side of the world's tallest hospital building.

Stanfords helps decide London as ‘capital of the world’

Stanfords was used as a point of research in “The Independent Traveller” survey that resulted in London being named the capital of the world. Researchers used the criteria of the number of individual guidebooks that appeared on our shelves to...

Stanfords restore glory to flagship store

Stanfords, the world’s leading map and travel bookseller, is looking forward to the highlight of our 150th anniversary year: the November re-launch of our flagship store in Long Acre, Covent Garden...

Stanfords' maps to be used in Mongol Rally

Two police officers are making good use of Stanfords maps and atlases on one of the most infamous car races in the world – the Mongol Rally. Jonathan Stevens and Ben Farquett, both 29, came to our store to plan their intrepid journey with the help of our famed maps and atlases, and we quizzed them further on their plans...

The Geography Collective: The Accidental Geographer

Here's the first blog from a member of the GGiP (Give Geography its Place) campaign!

Writing this first blog, I’m thinking about travelling… Last year, my secondary school in Redcar, North East England, was demolished. A shiny, ultra modern replacement had already been built just across the road... What I want to think about here is how, wandering around my old school, I was overwhelmed by the curious geographies that led me to where I am today...

The John Simpson Interview

John Simpson, the renowned BBC world affairs editor,visited Stanfords in London to discuss his new book Not Quite World’s End. John has graced our screens for 40 years in a career that has seen him reporting from the front line in various war-torn parts of the world...

The Simon Calder Interview - The Independent Traveller Editor

Simon Calder is one of the UK’s most well-known travellers, having edited The Independent Traveller for 13 years and presented several BBC travel shows. Known as 'the man who pays his way', Simon's travels have taken him from Crawley to Mount Kenya, and always in the 'cheap seat'...

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