Extract (less the coloured image of sample area around the London Metropolitan Archives’ location in Finsbury) from LMA’s online ‘Newsletter’, issue 15, Autumn 2013, posted 15 November:-

 

“UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register

The London County Council’s iconic series of Second World War Bomb Damage maps has recently been added to the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register. It is one of a select group of eleven items and collections to be added to the list of the UK’s outstanding documentary heritage in 2013, and is LMA’s second contribution to the list following the inclusion of the King William I Charter in 2010. Howard Doble tells more.”

 

Clicking on the “Howard Doble tells more” will lead to –

 

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives/the-collections/Pages/unesco-memory-of-the-world.aspx

 

‘Lis-maps’ and ‘MAPS-L’ subscribers may recall that ‘The London County Council bomb damage maps 1939-1945’, with an introduction by Robin Woolven ; edited by Ann Saunders (London : London Topographical Society ; London Metropolitan Archives, 2005), ISBN 0-902087-51-7, LTS’s own Publication No.164 was a ‘best seller’.

 

Francis Herbert

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