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The Gough Map or Bodleian Map [1] is a Late Medieval map of the island of Great Britain. Its precise dates of production and authorship are unknown. It is named after Richard Gough, who bequeathed the map to the Bodleian Library in Oxford 1809. He acquired the map from the estate of the antiquarian Thomas "Honest Tom" Martin in 1774. [2]
Mapping History – resource from the British Library; Geography and Map Reading Room at the Library of Congress; Ancient World Maps; The Peutinger Map ; Virtual Mappa: Digital Editions of Early Medieval Maps of the World, edit. Martin Foys, Heather Wacha, et al. (Philadelphia, PA: Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies, 2018): doi:10.21231 ...
A map showing the hypothetical extent of Doggerland from now back to the Weichselian glaciation. Until the middle Pleistocene, Great Britain was a peninsula of Europe, connected by the massive chalk Weald–Artois Anticline across the Strait of Dover.
The map of Ireland is included on the "first European map" sections (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπης πίναξ αʹ, romanized: Eurōpēs pínax alpha or Latin: Prima Europe tabula) of Ptolemy's Geography (also known as the Geographia and the Cosmographia). The "first European map" is described in the second and third chapters of the work's ...
A 1490 Italian reconstruction of the map of Ptolemy. The map is a result of a combination of the lines of roads and of the coasting expeditions during the first century of Roman occupation. One great fault, however, is a lopsided Scotland, which in one hypothesis is the result of Ptolemy using Pytheas' measurements of latitude . [17]
First English Civil War at the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644 Maps of territory held by Royalists (red) and Parliamentarians (green) during the English Civil War (1642–1645) King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649. The First English Civil War broke out in 1642, largely due to ongoing conflicts between James' son, Charles I, and Parliament.
Southern Britain in AD 600 after the Anglo-Saxon settlement, showing division into multiple petty kingdoms Anglo-Saxon and British kingdoms c. 800 The four most important kingdoms at first in Anglo-Saxon England were East Anglia , Mercia , Northumbria (originally two kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira ), and Wessex (originally known as the Gewisse ...
The area of present-day England was part of the Roman province of Britannia from 43 AD. [7] The province seems unlikely ever to have been as deeply integrated into Roman culture as nearby Continental provinces, however, [8] and from the crisis of the third century Britain was often ruled by Roman usurpers who were in conflict with the central government in Rome, such as Postumus (about 260 ...
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