Historical Geography

Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere findi...

Alexander Nimmo was an engineer and rector of Inverness Academy in Scotland. Here his travelogue of the wild region of Inverness in Scotland is pub...

Maps and mountains, lions and tigers, rivers and oceans-all sorts of things you didn't know about India's geography Could you be related to a blon...

Kent Ports and Harbours charts the changes that have occurred over the last 400 years to the Kent ports and their associated shipping industries. I...

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WOR...

For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a manner that,...

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original...

Thailand is known for its picturesque beaches and famous temples, but there's much more to this popular holiday destination than many realize.A Bri...

For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research fr...

Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regionsthe champion countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile ...

The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and one of the continent's principal arteries of movement, migration, conquest and commerce. In ...