
- Position
- Curator, Antiquarian mapping
- Specialism
- Early printed maps, educational mapping, 20th century maps, map collections
- Department
- Collections
Tom is a lead curator of antiquarian mapping at the British Library. He co-curated (with Peter Barber) the 2010 exhibition ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art’, and (with Philip Hatfield) ‘Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage’ in 2014-15. He also curated the 2016-2017 exhibition on ‘Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line’.
Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/magnificentmaps/index.html
Twitter: @BLMaps
The British Library collection of maps, plans and views is one of the largest in the world, numbering some 4.5 million
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