History of Britain in Maps: Over 90 Maps of our nation through time Hardcover – 2 Nov. 2017

My husband loved this gift, would highly recommend for history buffs!

A superb book which will appeal to historians, cartographers, and to the general reader alike. It covers maps from the 11th century to 21st century, ranging from the conjectural world map (showing Britain) to the small locational map e.g. H.M. the Queen's coronation route in London. All the maps are full page (except where they are given a two page spread), and no map has more than one page of accompanying text.

Very good read (even better if one can read old English from the earlier maps). The old saying about a picture is worth a thousand words is sort of reversed here: the text is worth a thousand words.

A good book with detailed images

Bought as a Christmas present for my father in law so only got a chance to leaf through it but a stunning book and he absolutely loves it

My wife purchased this for me after I spotted an advertisement for it in the paper. It is indeed a very fascinating with an excellent and varied selection of maps spanning 1000 years plus. Each map has a highly lucid and well written explanation of what each map shows and the context in which it was made. Highly recommended, interesting and informative.

This was a present for my dad for Christmas and he seems to really enjoy flicking through. There is a good variety of maps and the information accompanying them is detailed and easy to read. Overall it was a big hit!

Interesting to see how the outline of the british isles developed. But disappointing to find the later maps had no keys to describe the different colours and symbols.

Enjoyable