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Subject: Forthcoming Gough Map exhibition
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:49:33 +0100
From: Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear All,

Cross-posted to various listservs and the Friends of TOSCA.

Here are details of the forthcoming Gough Map exhibit to be held at the
Bodleian.
Please forward any queries to Nick Millea (contact details below).


We are pleased to announce that an exhibition of the late medieval Gough
Map of Great Britain will take place in the Proscholium, Bodleian
Library, Oxford, between 14 May - 26 June 2011.

The exhibition - "Linguistic geographies: three centuries of language,
script and cartography in the Gough Map of Great Britain" - will be a
rare public display of the map along with a copy of Richard Gough's
'British Topography' and its engraving of the map that gained his name.

These two key documents of English cartographic history will provide
visitors with a valuable opportunity to see close-up the fine details of
the Gough map, and in particular the writing that appears on it. The
map's script is a key to understanding its making and use, and the
exhibition will offer new interpretations based upon the on-going
"Linguistic Geographies" research project funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council.

The exhibition is organised by the Linguistic Geographies project team,
with particular inputs from Nick Millea and Elizabeth Solopova. The team
wish to thank the Bodleian Library for its support of this exhibition,
as well as the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more
information on the project please visit www.goughmap.org


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Nick Millea

Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
Tel:      01865 287119
Fax:     01865 277139
Email:  [log in to unmask]

Homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/

Temporary move of Special Collections:
More information at: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/scmoves

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