Given at the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society on February 13, 2024
The presidential lecture will look at the challenges and rewards of creating historical maps of London. In particular it will focus on medieval London, and the map published by the Historic Towns Trust in 2019. By 1300, London was at its medieval zenith of population size and wealth, and there is plentiful documentary evidence for features, street-names, and land-use, as well as governance and economic activity. Traces remain – mostly underground – of some of the city’s 100-plus parish churches and its many religious houses, and of a few private houses and public buildings. How can all this information be organised and represented on a map? And what do we learn by doing so?
Vanessa Harding is Emeritus Professor of London History, Birkbeck, University of London.
Mapping Medieval London
Lecture by Vanessa Harding
Given at the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society on February 13, 2024
The presidential lecture will look at the challenges and rewards of creating historical maps of London. In particular it will focus on medieval London, and the map published by the Historic Towns Trust in 2019. By 1300, London was at its medieval zenith of population size and wealth, and there is plentiful documentary evidence for features, street-names, and land-use, as well as governance and economic activity. Traces remain – mostly underground – of some of the city’s 100-plus parish churches and its many religious houses, and of a few private houses and public buildings. How can all this information be organised and represented on a map? And what do we learn by doing so?
Vanessa Harding is Emeritus Professor of London History, Birkbeck, University of London.
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