El presente volumen recoge las conferencias pronunciadas por Catherine Delano Smith, miembro investigador del Institute of Historical Research, Universidad de Londres, y editora de Imago Mundi, y Roger J. P. Kain, profesor de Geografía de la Universidad de Exeter y miembro de la British Academy, con motivo de la celebración del séptimo curso sobre historia de la cartografía dedicado a La Cartografía Inglesa.

Los temas tratados son los siguientes:

• 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.

Por 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.

Por Catherine Delano Smith.