Romantic Cartographies

Romantic Cartographies
Author: Sally Bushell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108603173

Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period sought to map and spatialise itself, the volume also considers the engagement of our own digital cultures with Romanticism's 'map-mindedness'. Original, exploratory essays engage with a wide range of cartographic projects, objects and experiences in Britain, and globally. Subjects range from Wordsworth, Clare and Walter Scott, to Romantic board games and geographical primers, to reveal the pervasiveness of the cartographic imagination in private and public spheres. Bringing together literary analysis, creative practice, geography, cartography, history, politics and contemporary technologies – just as the cartographic enterprise did in the Romantic period itself – Romantic Cartographies enriches our understanding of what it means to 'map' literature and culture.

William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape

William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape
Author: Andrew Macnair
Publisher: Windgather Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1905119852

William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.

The Glaven Ports

The Glaven Ports
Author: Jonathan Hooton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997
Genre: Blakeney (England)
ISBN:

THE GREAT NORFOLK ROADS SHAME A Report by

THE GREAT NORFOLK ROADS SHAME A Report by
Author: Christopher Hewitt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1326901710

This is the full colour version of a detailed and intensively researched technical report that literally rewrites the local history of a substantial area of Norfolk, with over 80 original illustrations dealing with elements of past and present vehicular highway law in England and Wales and its specific application to the locality. It examines some of the responsibilities of a highway authority and several of the shortcomings of the Norfolk Highway Authority in particular. Highlighted is a number of the resultant 'lost', obstructed but still legally active ancient routes in, around and through the Halvergate marshes including its immediate environs within south east Norfolk. The report concludes with specific recommendations made in the light of recent changes in the law that are intended to generate public consideration and discussion.

The Map Book

The Map Book
Author: Peter Barber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0802714749

Chronicles the historical development of maps and mapping from the Bronze Age to the present, collecting some 175 maps spanning ten millennia that represent the progress of civilization and technology, from military plans that depict enemy positions, to the famed London Underground layout, to the digitally enhanced renderings of today.

A Vanishing Landscape: Archaeological Investigations at Blakeney Eye, Norfolk

A Vanishing Landscape: Archaeological Investigations at Blakeney Eye, Norfolk
Author: Naomi Field
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789698413

This volume presents a report on the archaeological excavation of a small building on the Norfolk coast, locally known as 'Blakeney Chapel', in advance of expected coastal erosion at Blakeney Eye. The investigations produced evidence for multi-period occupation, with abandonments driven by the ever-changing climate.