For an exhibition that doesn’t even open until next week, “London: A Life in Maps” is generating all sorts of attention — it’s the launching-off point for this essay on mapping London by Peter Ackroyd in next week’s New Statesman, wherein he touches on everything from the Great Fire to Beck to Phyllis Pearsall. Via MapHist.

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