El present volum recull les conferències pronunciades per Catherine Delano Smith, membre investigador del Institute of Historical Research, Universitat de Londres, i editora d'Imago Mundi, i Roger J. P. Kain, professor de Geografia de la Universitat d'Exeter i membre de la British Academy, amb motiu de la celebració del setè curs sobre història de la cartografia dedicat a La Cartografia Anglesa.

Els temes tractats són els següents:

• Maps and map history in England: approaches to the history of cartography.
• Mapping landed properties: estate maps in medieval, renaissance and enlightenment England.
• Mapping landed properties: enclosure mapping in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
• Mapping landed properties: tithe maps of the mid-nineteenth century: a first large-scale national survey of England and Wales?
• Maps and the city in history: town mapping in England from the middle ages to the nineteenth century.
• Thematic maps.
• The Ordnance Survey: emergence of the National Mapping Agency.

Per Roger J. P. Kain

• The first English maps.
• The shape of England: English mappaemundi and maps of England before c. 1540.
• Maps for the monarch in the sixteenth century: maps for display and military maps.
• Maps for government: mapping England and Wales in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• English regional mapping in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: country maps and atlases and the growth of topographical knowledge.
• Maps for route-planning and way-finding.
• Map collections and libraries in England and their place in the history of cartography.

Per Catherine Delano Smith.