THIS IS A PAST EVENT
HOME AND ABROAD
MAPS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Admission Free
Friday 22 April - Monday 29 August .
Weston Gallery
HOME AND ABROAD - MAPS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Maps provide a fascinating point of entry to different cultures and different times.
Though their function was often practical, demonstrating ownership and land management, they can also be works of beauty and imagination.
Scattered through the archives and rare book collections at the University of Nottingham are many examples of maps, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. While each item tells its own story of creation and use, the narrative of the display concerns the people of the Midlands, their knowledge of the physical world and the significance of maps in their lives. The common theme is often one of property and power, but items also illustrate the development of communities in a rural landscape and the pace of urban growth. At an international level we see political aspirations and British perceptions of foreign lands.
This display looks back from our current familiarity with satellite navigation and digital mapping to celebrate an age of physical maps, in exhibits ranging from the simplicity of a few sketched lines and scribbled names to sophisticated examples of cartographic publication.
LUNCHTIME TALKS
1PM - 2PM
DJANOGLY THEATRE
ADMISSION FREE
A series of lunchtime talks will be held to accompany the exhibition. Places are limited so please book your tickets with the Box Office on 0115 846 7777.
TUESDAY 3 MAY
A MOTLEY OF MAPS
Dr Catherine Delano-Smith, Senior
Research Fellow, Institute of History, University of London, provides an introduction to the world of early maps and shows how we can make sense of their infinite variety.
TUESDAY 24 MAY
THE ART OF MAPPING AND THE CULTURE OF CARTOGRAPHY
Professor Stephen Daniels, School of Geography, surveys relations between mapping, the visual arts and imaginative literature, to explore the wider culture of cartography in Britain since the 18th century.
MONDAY 13 JUNE
RECONSTRUCTING THE TOWNSCAPE OF NOTTINGHAM USING CONTEMPORARY MAPS
Historians work from documents, but maps are both documents and pictorial representations of places ‘on the ground’. Using contemporary maps and plans, Professor John Beckett, School of History, will show how we can reconstruct the townscape of Nottingham from the medieval period to the present day.
WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE
MAPS AND WAR
Professor Mike Heffernan, School of Geography, explores the relationship between cartography and warfare.
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