Christchurch College, Oxford

Yesterday, I visited Oxford to see the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography: Danny Dorling at work, and took the time to visit Christchurch College, Oxford. It was in a meeting room here, in 1893, that the GA was founded. My brother in law later studied there, and my wife visited regularly during this time. That first meeting was perhaps soundtracked by the bell of Old Tom.

Images: Alan Parkinson and Sally Parkinson

Cartographic Predictions #1

Another in a whole range of 'occasional themes' for blogposts which will no doubt emerge over the next few years.

You will, I hope, be familiar with Worldmapper: the cartograms of Ben Hennig connected with the insight of Danny Dorling, Anna Barford and others.


In Halford Mackinder's Presidential Address of January 1916, he was referring to the creation of maps when he said this....

"I have no doubt that...sooner or later [someone] will take the step which will lead to our having maps showing where the musical ear is most prevalent in the world, where the artistic eye is most prevalent, where the fighting man is most cruel, and so forth; an endless series of cartographical answers to all the questions in regard to humanity that you might suggest..."

Or perhaps he was referring to maps like these: 'the world according to...' of which there are many.


Source: http://www.alphadesigner.com/
Buy the book with over 100 of these maps here: The Atlas of Prejudice

And in case you were wondering, the Worldmapper map shown at the top of the post is of global tea production.

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