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Best Map of the Year announced

A map of important geological sites has been announced as 2007’s winner of a new British Cartography Society (BCS) award sponsored by Stanfords.
Rosemary Duncan’s entry, the Hamps and Manifold Geotrail...

The Geography Collective: The Accidental Geographer

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...

The Island of Lost Maps

The basis of the this handsome looking book is the true story of Gilbert Bland. In 1995 Bland was caught stealing four 200-year-old maps from the Peabody Library of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Further investigation revealed that 19 libraries across North America had been systematically vandalised...

The world in figures

The Economist's “Pocket World in Figures” reveals fascinating facts about our planet such as where people live the longest, which is the biggest island and who glugs the most wine...

What if the world were a village..?

The population of the world is enormous, and the figures are often hard to understand, so a popular children’s book investigates what the world would be like if we imagined it as a village of just 100 people...

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