In April we welcomed Al Jazeera to The Map House to film part of a documentary in their award-winning Earthrise series and with Greenpeace. Presenter Nick Clark and cameraman Ben […]
The ‘Sport of Kings’ was first brought to Great Britain by the Romans. Originally a spectacle for the public, racing continued as a largely private event for centuries after the […]
We opened our galleries to the film crew of Juniper Television for S4C / BBC Wales where they shot an episode for the T. V. documentary series “How Empires Fall”. […]
This month’s “Map of the Month” feature discusses the role of speculation and map-making in the Mississippi Bubble of 1720.
In Antiquity, amidst the musings of Aristotle on the nature of Man and Man’s physical, intellectual and spiritual relationship with Nature, the study of Natural History was born and the […]
At the beginning of the 19th century the Thames River was much as it had always been – erratic, unruly and navigationally difficult with waters of changeable quality. The port […]
One of the privileges of working in The Map House with such a large collection of antique maps is the ability to compare different printings of the same map and […]
We were recently joined by the BBC’s This Week programme for filming in our galleries. In a personal film, Sajjan Gohel discusses security and terrorism just days after the shocking […]
A set of six of celestial charts demonstrating the Muggletonian sect’s geocentric astronomical theory, which adamantly refuted the Newtonian standpoint. The Muggletonians were an odd religious sect founded in the aftermath […]
We thoroughly enjoyed our very first London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of the Arts (find out more here). Thank you to everyone who came to visit us […]
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