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Tuesday April 8th 2025 at 8pm

 “Mapping the Kingdom.”

by Hugh Petrie (Heritage Development Officer at Hendon Library)

The colourful maps of the first County Series, was one of the greatest feats of the Victorian period. This lecture is the story of the first large scale survey of England made in the 1860s at “1:2500 OR 25.344 INCHES TO THE MILE.” The lecture looks at how and why the survey was carried out, the people who made it happen from the labourers, through to the sappers and officers of the Royal Engineers, and how the maps can be used to tell us about local history, using maps from the local studies collection of the London Borough of Barnet.

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