Monday 26th January 2026

Mapping London
Creative Ways to Explore History
Matt Brown
 

For over 20 years, Matt Brown has been exploring and writing about London. But he's also been mapping it. In this talk, Matt will describe how maps can provide fresh insights into the city's history and culture: from a retrospective map of Anglo-Saxon London, to a complete map of every location mentioned in Dickens's novels, to fictional atlases and memory maps. He'll also reveal what he's learned about London by spending hundreds of hours colouring in the John Rocque map of 1746.

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Matt Brown

Matt has given us entertaining lectures about London previously, including Everything You Know About London is Wrong. He is a writer, speaker and journalist and currently Editor at Large at Londonist. Matt is passionate about London and has an encyclopeadic knowledge delivered in an engaging style. 

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