The Map House – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:09:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg The Map House – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 War Map: An Exhibition of Pictorial Conflict Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/09/war-map-an-exhibition-of-pictorial-conflict-maps/ Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:36:43 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2950 More]]> war-map

We’re familiar with caricature maps from before and during the First World War: maps that reimagine various countries as warring animals or caricatured faces. These aren’t the only examples of persuasive cartography or of pictorial maps of this or other wars, but I imagine they’ll be front and centre at a new exhibition at The Map House, an antiquarian map seller in London. War Map: Pictorial Conflict Maps, 1900-1950 opened last week and runs until 18 November. A companion book of the same name is apparently available as of next week. [Geographical]

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