The publishers describe this weighty tome as 'a prestigious 21st-century successor to the
groundbreaking gazetteers of the 19th century'. The Victorian antecedents to which the …

Reviews of books 525 source material, it constitutes an ambitious and meticulous project.
Nevertheless, McKellar's greatest achievement is perhaps her detailed and consistent …

It is probably a fair postulation that most, if not all, Fellows enjoy a guided tour. Whether that
be sites of architectural or archaeological note, collections of interest or significant land-or …

In more than seventy maps, bird's-eye views and panoramas dating from the earliest printed
view of Edinburgh by Alexander Allane (c. 1530) to www. openstreetmap. org/(2014) …

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England
is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world …

In their introductory essay the editors argue that far from being wanton connoisseurs of
natural beauty, both Price and Knight were improvers. Individual features of their estates' …

Maps are spatial representations of the real world. They come in numerous forms conveying
different aspects of the landscape to inform and guide others. Older maps are often …

This is, in the modern, not the original, usage of the phrase, a 'curate's egg'of a book. Not
entirely off, it achieves the creditable feat of presenting a partial, if not particularly visually …

'Globalisation'of local and national economies seems inexorable, with television, radio and
newspapers enhancing our knowledge of a larger world and mass tourism bringing together …