EVENTS
Bodleian Library Visits
The Society recently made two visits (because we were limited to 20 places on each visit) to the Weston Library in Oxford, part of the Bodleian Library, at the invitation of the Map Curator. Among the varied collection of maps we saw were the Sheldon Tapestry Map of Oxfordshire – a huge map woven in wool and silk -, German General Staff maps of Britain produced during the Second World War, Cold War Soviet maps of Britain, the 1644 Civil War map of Oxford and the 1833 Drink Map of Oxford, produced to highlight the city’s supposed moral downfall. The highlight of the visit was the Gough map, the earliest surviving map to show Britain in a shape we would recognise today.
Bodleian Library Visits
The Society recently made two visits (because we were limited to 20 places on each visit) to the Weston Library in Oxford, part of the Bodleian Library, at the invitation of the Map Curator. Among the varied collection of maps we saw were the Sheldon Tapestry Map of Oxfordshire – a huge map woven in wool and silk -, German General Staff maps of Britain produced during the Second World War, Cold War Soviet maps of Britain, the 1644 Civil War map of Oxford and the 1833 Drink Map of Oxford, produced to highlight the city’s supposed moral downfall. The highlight of the visit was the Gough map, the earliest surviving map to show Britain in a shape we would recognise today.
FURTHER AFIELD
British Modern Military History Society
BMMHS has a programme of talks twice a month, one on Zoom and the other at Woodcote Village Hall. For details please see their website www.bmmhs.org
Didcot Archaeological and Historical Society holds talks, usually on the second Thursday of the month. For details see www.ddahs.org.uk
British Modern Military History Society
BMMHS has a programme of talks twice a month, one on Zoom and the other at Woodcote Village Hall. For details please see their website www.bmmhs.org
Didcot Archaeological and Historical Society holds talks, usually on the second Thursday of the month. For details see www.ddahs.org.uk