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Tudor map of Europe. Map of Europe and Asia Minor, 3 May 1595 (The National Archives: SP 12.252 f7)
Compiled from 1596, these richly detailed maps show each county of Great Britain individually and as they existed at the time, complete with a wealth of heraldic decoration, illustrations and...
Britain’s Tudor Maps: County by County brings all of the maps together again in a beautifully bound book. The A3-sized book is something to treasure as an object in itself. The covers are solid, thick board, the end papers an elegant shade of blue, and the paper thick and glossy.
2 sty 2011 · 'General Description of England and Ireland' by Laurence Nowell c.1564. The artist is in the lower left hand corner and his patron, Sir William Cecil is in the right corner. Original map size: 21.2 X 30.9 cm
21 paź 2020 · Maps in Tudor England. by. Harvey, P. D. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Cartography -- England -- History, Cartography, Civilization, England -- Maps -- Early works to 1800, England -- Civilization -- 16th century, England. Publisher. London : Public Record Office : British Library.
The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place during the 16th century under the Tudor dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom of England. The Anglo-Normans had conquered swathes of Ireland in the late 12th century, bringing it under English rule .
Under the early Tudors the main hope for better maps of Ireland lay with the “old English” inhabitants of the region in and around Dublin known as the Pale.
