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1709Recipe for cosmetic water
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1715Sugar in Britain
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1730Textile production
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1734East India Company: list of goods ordered
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1743Muffin Seller
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1745The Good and Bad Effects of Tea
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1747The Art of Cookery
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1757Fake map of Roman Britain
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1764The Spinning Jenny
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1770The Spinning Jenny
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1771Factories
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1771Pleasure gardens
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1777Factories
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1778London prostitutes
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1782Account of London's street lights
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1784Trade ship's logbook
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1786Dictionary of slang
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1787The Tyburn Chronicle
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1791Poverty
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1794An act for town improvements
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Intro
This extract appears to be a beautiful medieval map of Roman Britain. However, all is not as it seems. In 1743, a copy of the map was sent to the antiquarian William Stukely by a student named Charles Bertram. It was accompanied by a manuscript history of Britain. Stukely was fascinated, believing the map to be the work of a 14th-century monk, Richard of Cirencester. The map seemed to provide a wealth of new historical information, such as previously unknown Roman place names. As a result, new Roman names such as Pennines (Pennines Montes) appeared on Ordinance Survey maps. It was not until the 1860s that it was proven to be a fake. Both the map and the manuscript had been created in the 1700s, and were entirely invented.
Shelfmark: 577.h.25.(3)
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