News from Stanfords

Stanfords trekking event appears on YouTube

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 8 May 2008

Our recent event with Kev Reynolds on Trekking in the High Himalaya made a big impression on the 40-strong audience. In particular, keen walker and founder of the Online Fellwalking Club (OFC), Peter Burgess, as he even filmed the event and posted it on YouTube.

Stanfords globe prize at film festival

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 22 April 2008

A grass-roots campaign to promote geography hosted a film competition and the top prize was no less than a magnificent globe from Stanfords.

An ambulance to Mongolia

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 17 April 2008

Two students approached Stanfords for help with an intrepid journey overland from the UK to Mongolia – by ambulance. How could we refuse?

Stanfords' maps to be used in Mongol Rally

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 5 February 2008

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...

Stanfords publishes travel classics

Date: 25 January 2008

Here at Stanfords we have just unveiled exciting new additions to our shelves – Stanfords Travel Classics. As a specialist travel bookseller we were inspired to put together a collection of the travel books that we really love, so we have launched a series that republishes some of the finest historical travel writing...

Stanfords helps Scoot to Africa

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 15 January 2008

Stanfords is sponsoring a team of people who plan to ride from Scotland to Morocco and back on scooters to raise money for charity. The 'Scoot to Africa’ team aim to raise £100,000 for Cancer Research...

Insurers look to OS maps to assess flood risk

Date: 15 January 2008

Britain’s leading insurers were given an insight into the power of Ordnance Survey (OS) maps at a special event focusing on flood risk. Directors, managers and specialist underwriters were among a 100...

Stanfords helps decide London as ‘capital of the world’

Date: 4 January 2008

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...

Lottery win for public transport project

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 2 January 2008

A project by the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity that was supported by Stanfords has won the lottery. The Sustrans Connect2 project won the People's £50 Million Lottery Giveaway after public...

Nick Crane joins party at Stanfords Bristol

Author: Rachel Ricks
Date: 6 November 2007

Stanfords in Bristol celebrated its 10th birthday with a party at the store. Guest of honour was the ‘Map Man’ Nicholas Crane, the geographer and journalist who led the team of experts in the popular...