CAMBRIDGE SEMINARS IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY The next Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 2 May at 5.30pm (UK time ; BST, i.e. GMT + 1) The speaker will be Martijn Storms MA, University of Leiden, with the title: The Maps that Made History: Collections of Leiden University Library. Martijn Storms MA (Arnhem, 1978), is curator of maps and atlases at Leiden University Libraries. He studied human geography and planning at Utrecht University where he specialized in GIS and cartography. 2022 marked 150 years since the death of the map collector Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872). He bequeathed his enormous map collection to Leiden University. Over the years the map collection in Leiden grew and now it is one of the greatest map collections in the Netherlands. To commemorate this the book Maps That Made History: 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps was published. In the book the geographical, temporal and thematical variety of Leiden’s map collection is put forward. To complement the publication of the book, the exhibition Maps: Navigating & Manipulating was organized in the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. That exhibition is running until October this year. The talk will focus on the cartographic collections of Leiden University Libraries as well as the people and institutions behind these collections. All are welcome: please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested in attending. Please register for the talk at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maps-that-made-history-collections-of-leiden-university-library-on-zoom-tickets-620866677947 The Zoom link will be sent a couple of days before the seminar For enquiries, please contact Sarah Bendall at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, tel. 01223 330476 https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/maps/cartographic-events/camsem The seminars are kindly supported by Emmanuel College Cambridge Dr Sarah Bendall | Fellow & Development Director Emmanuel College Cambridge CB2 3AP Tel. 01223 330987/07540 725179 [cid:image001.jpg@01D973B6.70E3A6F0]Emma enables<https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/supporting/emmaenables/> the most talented people to make great contributions to the world around us; click here<https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/supporting/emmaenables/> to find out more Emmanuel College Cambridge Registered Charity No: 1137456 The College’s Data Protection Statement for Emma members and friends is available at https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/contact/data/