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The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such...
2nd Feb 2026
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The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Feb 2026
The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass audience that...
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The Library of Lost Maps Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will...
14th Jul 2025
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The Library of Lost Maps

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

14th Jul 2025
Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will share more details over the summer, but you can pre-order and subscribe for updates here: https://libraryoflostmaps.com/
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COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific...
30th Nov 2023
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COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

30th Nov 2023
James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing “the shape of an epidemic”. The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep peak before...
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The era of the megalopolis: how the world’s cities are merging James Cheshire, UCL and Michael Batty, UCL On November 15 2022, a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag,...
24th Nov 2022
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The era of the megalopolis: how the world’s cities are merging

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24th Nov 2022
James Cheshire, UCL and Michael Batty, UCL On November 15 2022, a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag, born at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines, became – symbolically – the eight billionth person in the world. Of those 8 billion people, 60% live in a town or...
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The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after...
8th Oct 2022
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The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account

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8th Oct 2022
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after pleading guilty to illegally discharging sewage along the rivers and coastline of Kent, Hampshire and Sussex. More than a year later, the headlines have not improved for Britain’s...
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The Scarred Landscape of the Climate Crisis I’ve been obsessively checking satellite imagery to witness the UK turn from green to yellow, thanks...
10th Aug 2022
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The Scarred Landscape of the Climate Crisis

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10th Aug 2022
I’ve been obsessively checking satellite imagery to witness the UK turn from green to yellow, thanks to the period of extreme heat and lack of rain Europe has been enduring. The parched landscape is unlike anything I’ve seen before and a cloud free day today (10th August) has...
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Newspapers and the 1976 Drought With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase:...
21st Jul 2022
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Newspapers and the 1976 Drought

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21st Jul 2022
With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase: ‘it was this hot in 1976’. Of course it wasn’t, and crucially the planet overall was not as hot then as it is now. Parts of the UK media have had their part to play in fueling...
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More than arrows UPDATE: If you would like a detailed reflection on this, I have co-authored an article with Alex...
4th Mar 2022
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More than arrows

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4th Mar 2022
UPDATE: If you would like a detailed reflection on this, I have co-authored an article with Alex Kent entitled Getting to the Point? Rethinking Arrows on Maps. You can read it here. This week I took to Twitter to offer a critique on way we might map (at the time of writing) the...
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PhD Opportunity: An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities Excited to announce that we have funding for a +3 studentship in the UCL Department of Geography for...
2nd Feb 2022
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PhD Opportunity: An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Feb 2022
Excited to announce that we have funding for a +3 studentship in the UCL Department of Geography for the project “An Atlas of Health and Social Inequalities”. The research will be carried out in association with the Health Foundation and will comprise the creation of a range of...
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Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not...
7th Jan 2022
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Being creative is reason enough to try different data visualization

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

7th Jan 2022
A simple line chart might be all you need to communicate the patterns in a dataset, but it might not be given a second glance. Getting the viewer to work a little harder to interpret and think about a graphic can be a very effective way of generating engagement. This is where the...
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