Edinburgh – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:25:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Edinburgh – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 At the Edinburgh Fringe: ‘The OS Map Fan Club’ https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/08/at-the-edinburgh-fringe-the-os-map-fan-club/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:25:53 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1786061 More]]> Helen Wood
Helen Wood

At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival? You may want to check out The OS Map Fan Club, an hour-long solo performance about Ordnance Survey maps that sounds relevant to our interests. Written and performed by Helen Wood, The OS Map Fan Club has been making the fringe and festival circuit this year and has been getting good reviews (see here, here and here). At the Edinburgh Fringe until 18 August; details and tickets here. [Map of the Week]

Previously: Cartography: ‘A Gently Interactive Show’ at the Halifax Fringe Festival.

]]> 1786061 Glasgow: Mapping the City https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/glasgow-mapping-the-city/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:55:17 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=116 More]]> glasgow-mapping-the-cityThe National’s Alan Taylor reviews Glasgow: Mapping the City by John Moore (Birlinn, October 2015), an illustrated book of maps of the city dating back to the 16th century (via). This is one of several map books published by Birlinn that cover the history of Scotland in maps: previous volumes include Edinburgh: Mapping the City by Christopher Fleet and Daniel MacCannell (2014) and Scotland: Mapping the Nation by Christopher Fleet, Charles W. J. Withers and Margaret Wilkes (2012).

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