Old Map of West Yorkshire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - York, Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield Vintage College Poster Railways and stations are highlighted

Railways and stations are highlighted

This full colour map shows Ireland as it appeared in 1798

with roots reaching back to the Roman town of Camulodunum

and political analysts

providing insights into how land was divided and cultivated more than a century ago

Old Map of West Yorkshire in 1665 by Joan Blaeu - York, Bradford, Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield Vintage College Poster Railways and stations are highlightedThe West Riding of Yorkshire was already one of England's busiest manufacturing regions when Joan Blaeu's workshop in Amsterdam engraved this map for his Atlas Maior, first issued in 1662 and reprinted in the celebrated 1665 edition. Blaeu, cartographer to the Dutch East India Company and inheritor of his father Willem's map publishing house, built his English county series on the pioneering Elizabethan survey that Christopher Saxton had completed