Peter Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Paul D. A. Harvey (1930–2025)
‘Context is everything … ’
Note from the Editor: The following article incorporates the text of the first of the two keynote addresses initiating formal proceedings at the 2019 Conference on the History of Cartography. In view of its historiographical interest, the Editor invited Peter Barber, a former Head of Maps at the British Library and an authority on divers aspects of map history, to share his reflections with readers of this Journal. Although the spoken text has ha…
London Plotted
London Plotted: Plans of London Buildings c.1450–1720. By Dorian Gerhold." Imago Mundi, 69(2), pp. 261–262
New Light on the Medieval Gough Map of Britain
Remarkably little is known about the earliest surviving separate-sheet medieval map of Britain that takes its name from its former owner, Richard Gough (1735–1809), and that has been variously dated to between 1300 and 1400, and later. It presents a sophisticated cartographical image at a time when detailed maps of individual regions were almost unknown in Europe, yet nothing is agreed about its possible origins, context (ecclesiastical or secula…
Ralph Hyde (1939−2015)
I draw a line here and open a new chapter’
The Imago Mundi archives, held in the Map Library of the British Library in London, contain the correspondence between Leo Bagrow, the founding editor of Imago Mundi, and the Italian geographer and historian of cartography Roberto Almagià. Their correspondence, which continued throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, brought out the worst in their very different characters, at times to an almost comical extent. The exchanges reveal Bagrow’s som…
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek
PREFACE PART 1: EVIDENCE FOR SIEVERS' LAW AND THE POSSIBILITY OH INHERITANCE PART II: GREEK NOMINAL CATEGORIES PART III: VERBAL CATEGORIES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Die Leidenschaft des Sammelns
John Darby's Map of the Parish of Smallburgh in Norfolk, 1582
The British Library has purchased one of the earliest English local maps to be drawn to a consistent scale (Plate 6). The map has south at the top and shows the parish of Smallburgh, a village to t
Was Elizabeth I Interested in Maps – And Did It Matter
It tends to be assumed that Queen Elizabeth was interested in maps and globes, not least because she was frequently depicted in their vicinity. Investigation strongly suggests that this was not the case. It is argued that this did matter. By depriving her of an independent source of spatial information, it made her more dependent on her ministers and, in particular, it meant that the royal estates were not mapped before 1600, with long-term finan…
The 18th international conference on the history of cartography, Athens, July 1999
(2000). The 18th international conference on the history of cartography, Athens, July 1999: Report. Imago Mundi: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 163-167
The Evesham world map
The newly‐discovered Evesham world map, a wall map that was almost certainly commissioned for Evesham Abbey in about 1390, was added to and amended some 20 years later, and was then reused by 1452. It derives from what was probably a standard world map copied for Ranulf Higden for his Polychronkon. However, there is no evidence that the Evesham map was ever intended to illustrate any particular text. Within the traditional geographical and spirit…
Tales from the Map Room
Written to accompany a six-part TV series, takes an intriguing look at all sorts of maps, from military and navigational charts used for strategic planning in wartime to medieval monster maps and the first maps of metropolitan London
The Aslake world map
In 1985, Mrs. Joyce Ovenden of Barnet, a suburb of London, brought several documents that had long been in the possession of her family into the British Library for identification. Concealed and virtually invisible among them were two fragile, worn and much faded fragments of a fourteenth-century English world map. Modern methods of conservation, the use of ultraviolet light and above all ultraviolet photography have revealed them to be items of …
Tales from the Map Room
Written to accompany a six-part TV series, takes an intriguing look at all sorts of maps, from military and navigational charts used for strategic planning in wartime to medieval monster maps and the first maps of metropolitan London
The Evesham world map
The newly‐discovered Evesham world map, a wall map that was almost certainly commissioned for Evesham Abbey in about 1390, was added to and amended some 20 years later, and was then reused by 1452. It derives from what was probably a standard world map copied for Ranulf Higden for his Polychronkon. However, there is no evidence that the Evesham map was ever intended to illustrate any particular text. Within the traditional geographical and spirit…
The Aslake world map
In 1985, Mrs. Joyce Ovenden of Barnet, a suburb of London, brought several documents that had long been in the possession of her family into the British Library for identification. Concealed and virtually invisible among them were two fragile, worn and much faded fragments of a fourteenth-century English world map. Modern methods of conservation, the use of ultraviolet light and above all ultraviolet photography have revealed them to be items of …
New Light on the Medieval Gough Map of Britain
Remarkably little is known about the earliest surviving separate-sheet medieval map of Britain that takes its name from its former owner, Richard Gough (1735–1809), and that has been variously dated to between 1300 and 1400, and later. It presents a sophisticated cartographical image at a time when detailed maps of individual regions were almost unknown in Europe, yet nothing is agreed about its possible origins, context (ecclesiastical or secula…
John Darby's Map of the Parish of Smallburgh in Norfolk, 1582
The British Library has purchased one of the earliest English local maps to be drawn to a consistent scale (Plate 6). The map has south at the top and shows the parish of Smallburgh, a village to t
The Aslake world map
In 1985, Mrs. Joyce Ovenden of Barnet, a suburb of London, brought several documents that had long been in the possession of her family into the British Library for identification. Concealed and virtually invisible among them were two fragile, worn and much faded fragments of a fourteenth-century English world map. Modern methods of conservation, the use of ultraviolet light and above all ultraviolet photography have revealed them to be items of …
The Evesham world map
The newly‐discovered Evesham world map, a wall map that was almost certainly commissioned for Evesham Abbey in about 1390, was added to and amended some 20 years later, and was then reused by 1452. It derives from what was probably a standard world map copied for Ranulf Higden for his Polychronkon. However, there is no evidence that the Evesham map was ever intended to illustrate any particular text. Within the traditional geographical and spirit…
Tales from the Map Room
Written to accompany a six-part TV series, takes an intriguing look at all sorts of maps, from military and navigational charts used for strategic planning in wartime to medieval monster maps and the first maps of metropolitan London
The 18th international conference on the history of cartography, Athens, July 1999
(2000). The 18th international conference on the history of cartography, Athens, July 1999: Report. Imago Mundi: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 163-167
Was Elizabeth I Interested in Maps – And Did It Matter
It tends to be assumed that Queen Elizabeth was interested in maps and globes, not least because she was frequently depicted in their vicinity. Investigation strongly suggests that this was not the case. It is argued that this did matter. By depriving her of an independent source of spatial information, it made her more dependent on her ministers and, in particular, it meant that the royal estates were not mapped before 1600, with long-term finan…
John Darby's Map of the Parish of Smallburgh in Norfolk, 1582
The British Library has purchased one of the earliest English local maps to be drawn to a consistent scale (Plate 6). The map has south at the top and shows the parish of Smallburgh, a village to t
Die Leidenschaft des Sammelns
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek
PREFACE PART 1: EVIDENCE FOR SIEVERS' LAW AND THE POSSIBILITY OH INHERITANCE PART II: GREEK NOMINAL CATEGORIES PART III: VERBAL CATEGORIES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
I draw a line here and open a new chapter’
The Imago Mundi archives, held in the Map Library of the British Library in London, contain the correspondence between Leo Bagrow, the founding editor of Imago Mundi, and the Italian geographer and historian of cartography Roberto Almagià. Their correspondence, which continued throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, brought out the worst in their very different characters, at times to an almost comical extent. The exchanges reveal Bagrow’s som…
Ralph Hyde (1939−2015)
New Light on the Medieval Gough Map of Britain
Remarkably little is known about the earliest surviving separate-sheet medieval map of Britain that takes its name from its former owner, Richard Gough (1735–1809), and that has been variously dated to between 1300 and 1400, and later. It presents a sophisticated cartographical image at a time when detailed maps of individual regions were almost unknown in Europe, yet nothing is agreed about its possible origins, context (ecclesiastical or secula…
London Plotted
London Plotted: Plans of London Buildings c.1450–1720. By Dorian Gerhold." Imago Mundi, 69(2), pp. 261–262
‘Context is everything … ’
Note from the Editor: The following article incorporates the text of the first of the two keynote addresses initiating formal proceedings at the 2019 Conference on the History of Cartography. In view of its historiographical interest, the Editor invited Peter Barber, a former Head of Maps at the British Library and an authority on divers aspects of map history, to share his reflections with readers of this Journal. Although the spoken text has ha…
Paul D. A. Harvey (1930–2025)
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