The influence of British empire can be found in anything from fortification plans and maps to portraits and needlework. But how did these visual sources function within empire? And to what effect?

Ten plates used to print maps of the British Empire have been found in scrapyards. One of them, dated 1779, had been bought by a farmer in Norfolk to use as a mudguard for his tractor.

Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devoted exclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideas from anywhere in the world. It was founded in Berlin ...