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Cover Copyright Title Page Frontispiece Acknowledgments Contents Introduction A Weary Titan? 1900–1918

1900: A Trip to the Continent: Edwardian tourism 1900: ‘Better than nothing at all’: mapping the Boer War 1901: A glue spread increasingly thin: the Navy League map 1901: Jewish East London: maps, statistical maps and immigration 1902: The relief of Ladysmith and attempts at rehabilitation 1905: The Railway Clearing House: South Wales coal and the logistics of rail 1907: A Map of the World, as Seen by Him: the golden age of the picture postcard 1907: ‘A pleasant narcotic’: opium and the Edwardian drug trade 1908: Philips’ model test maps: practical schooling for the heirs of empire 1908: How to Get There: the evolution of the London Underground 1910: Fire insurance plans: mapping a young Canadian community 1911: Ulster’s prayer: Ireland and Home Rule 1911: The Delhi Durbar: imperial pomp and pageantry 1914: Sketch map of an Antarctic adventure: Shackleton’s fund-raising appeal 1914: Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark! Aggression and optimism upon the outbreak of war 1915: The Great War as seen from Warsaw 1915: Gallipoli: troop positions at Anzac Cove 1916: What Germany Wants The Berlin to Baghdad Railway and German ambitions in the Middle East 1916: A section of the front on the first day of the Somme 1918: An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland: make-believe against the backdrop of Armageddon

Top Dog! 1919–1945

1919: ‘A great moral effect’: the massacre at Amritsar 1920: Britain, Greater Greece and the Turkification of Asia Minor 1924: A miniature atlas of the British Empire: less is more 1926: A secret map of London: contingency planning for the general strike 1926: The Hundred Acre Wood 1927: Celestial bodies and holiday traffic: a cartographic guide to the solar eclipse 1929: A pictorial chart of English literature for the American tourist 1930: The Gleneagles map of the heart of Scotland 1930: Immigration and land settlement in Mandatory Palestine 1931: A map of New Zealand, Britain’s outlying farm 1933: Pieces of eight: a satirical cartoon of the world financial crisis 1936: Hitler’s ‘best Parteitag’: Nuremberg and fascist tourism 1937: A souvenir flag of the coronation of Edward VIII 1938: The Spanish Civil War: British neutrality and poor-quality maps 1940: Blitzed London: a Luftwaffe map of ‘Mayfair Square’ and the London County Council ‘bomb damage’ maps 1940: Occupied Paris: a tourist map for German troops 1941: A spy map for the Japanese submarine attack upon Pearl Harbor 1942: Vichy and the Churchillian octopus 1943: Blake’s Battle of the Atlantic 1944: On leave in New York: a subway map for British sailors 1944: A secret map of occupied Alderney 1944: D-Day and the Battle for Caen 1945: Isotype maps and women in the workplace 1945: Occupied Berlin: the U-Bahn and daily life in the ruined city 1945: Christmas greetings from Nuremberg

Bust to Boom to Bust. 1946–1972

1947: Partition and the end of empire in India 1949: Two maps charting the changing face of British railways 1949: Aquila Airways: austerity, government surplus, and the post-war travel boom 1951: What do they talk about? The British and the Festival of Britain 1952: A map of Caribbean oil 1953: The royal tour of the Commonwealth: an itinerary for the admiral 1953: Cruising on the ‘Green Goddess’: a transatlantic coronation celebration 1954: Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth: the entire story at a single glance 1956: Military mapping during the Suez Crisis 1957: Just testing: a nuclear blast over Southampton 1957: A tourist map of Alicante: Spanish holidays and the anticipation of paradise 1958: The world we live in: overpopulation and uninhabited wastes 1958: Land use and the creation of modern Hong Kong 1961: Bahía de Cochinos: a quiet little spot for an invasion 1962: ‘The European Community in Maps’: preparing the way for the UK 1964: A do-it-yourself general election map 1965: Glasgow residential land use: housing solutions for ‘Empire’s second city’ 1967: A map of the proposed new town of Milton Keynes: the spirit of the age 1968: Earthly concerns: a photograph of the Earth and a medal of the moon 1971: Heritage in glorious colour: a football history map of England and Wales 1971: At face value: the map in conceptual art 1972: Four decades on: an attempt at the truth behind Bloody Sunday

Out of the Red and Into the Blue 1973–1999

1973: Maps of ‘Cherished land’ and Industrial expansion 1974: ‘From Liverpool to the World’: the birth of Beatles tourism 1975: Nuclear power and the gamut of public opinion 1975: The North Sea oil bonanza 1977: April Fool’s Day and the newspaper hoax: the islands of San Serriffe 1977: The Silver Jubilee beacons: evoking the spirit of 1588 1978: Colonial mapping and the Rhodesian Bush War 1980: Happy Eater: catering for Britain’s A roads 1981: Drinking and driving: fifteen inns of character in Kent 1981: ‘Islands of the Blessed’: a socialist map of tax havens 1982: FAGA and the Falklands 1982: Gay London 1984: A map of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ 1984: A CND operations map: guerilla warfare on Salisbury Plain 1985: The guitar and the continent: the Live Aid logo 1986: Hunting with dogs: a map of landed Britain 1986: The growth of the supermarket: a map for expansion 1989: SimCity: video games and urban planning for fun 1990: Tribal maps in Belfast 1991: Public and secret maps of the Gulf War 1992: Soviet Sunderland: part of a global mapping project 1994: Walt Disney World: the suburb where dreams come true 1995: A map of Internet traffic: information beautiful and useful 1995: Where will they draw the line? Tobacco advertising and the death of the smoker 1995: A New Social Atlas of Britain: turning statistics into pictures 1996: The Mercator Atlas of Europe: old maps as investments 1997: The geography of mourning: a newspaper maps the public funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997: The Glastonbury Festival: the image, the reality and the Criminal Justice Act 1999: A cartographic chronicle of the fall of Yugoslavia 1999: Millennium tapestry map: Britain’s communities

Postscript Endnotes List of Maps Further Reading Picture Credits Index

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