it's important to know the city he was writing in. That's where this interactive map of early modern London (pictured above) comes in.

Before structures like the Gherkin, the London Eye ... of serious conservation efforts since the 16th century, helping it stay intact while many maps from the era have degraded.

we relied on compasses and hand drawn maps. In the 16th century, Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg compiled Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a book of bird's-eye-view maps. From the Hebrew University of ...

The luxurious 16th-century London mansion that belonged to King Henry VIII of England’s notorious chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, has been recreated for the first time. Nick Holder, a historian ...