Posts by lzzre
Anticipating Genocide: An Ethnographic Map of Central Europe in 1942
April 10, 2024
A blog written by Professor Mike Heffernan The School’s map collection includes many items from World War Two, evidence of the close relationship between cartography and war. One of the more eye-catching examples is a large, 1:1 million ‘Ethnographical Map of Central Europe’, printed in Budapest in 1942 with title and accompanying text in English. …
Lauge Koch and the Colonial Mapping of Northern Greenland
February 13, 2024
A blog by Dr Peter Martin Like nearly all substantial map collections, the School of Geography holds a range of maps that depict and represent colonial and postcolonial spaces around the world. Of relevance to my own research interests, this includes a number of maps centred on those areas of the Arctic that have historically …