It’s a good week for anyone interested in the history of houses; a new series of A House Through Time begins, and the paperback edition of the book of the same name is out. If you’re inspired to delve into house history to find out more about the building you live in, or you’re a […]
The World As It Never Was
In our guest post this month, Edward Brooke-Hitching spills the beans on extraordinary cartographic myths, mistakes and misbeliefs through history. It was a specific form of nothing that piqued my interest in cartographic misbeliefs. ‘Donut holes’ are a curious phenomenon in maritime law, created by the passing of a 1982 UN resolution to establish the nautical […]