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Cartography and Mapping for Publication

Welcome and Introduction
Professor Catherine Clarke (Director of the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community, IHR)

Dr Adam Chapman (Lecturer in Medieval History & Victoria County History (VCH) Editor, IHR)
Mapping and Cartography for Local History Publication

Dr Stuart Brookes (Senior Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Experiences in digital landscape History

Learn more about training available from the Institute of Historical Research.

Cartography and Mapping for Publication — The first online training sessions by the CHPPC. The VCH team look at cartography and what good and bad historical mapping can do to aid your research.

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