So pleased and honored to have been asked to write the foreword for Susan Schulten’s incredible new book in R J Andrews’ series, Information Graphic Visionaries

And not just PowerPoint: Google Slides, Apple’s Keynote, Open/LibreOffice’s Impress, etc. are all great tools for showing images of maps in presentations, as long as some basic rules are followed!

On the origins of “cartobibliography” (a word I want to discard) in the work of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis in the 1830s and 1840s

An eighteenth-century German post-road map which really surprised me last week, because of the manner in which its 16 plates were printed.

On the use and production of copies for map historical research, both manuscript and printed.

…. that seems not to want to even hint at religious causes for flat-earth beliefs.

How map history has been (barely) supported by the IGU

A piece of bad popular map history suggests that people can have quite misleading concepts about Gerardus Mercator and indeed about the nature of maps and mapping (hint: he did NOT make the map shown at left, his son Rumold did!)

(and some missed from 2020)