London: A Life in Maps

From 24 November visitors to the British Library at St Pancras will be able to see London as they have never seen it before. The Library's major winter exhibition, London : A Life in Maps (24 November 2006-4 March 2007) uses historic maps, both iconic and obscure, to reveal the driving passions behind the development of the city over 2000 years. Beginning with a gold coin from 310 depicting the walled Roman settlement of 'Londinium' and progressing through the ever larger, more detailed and spectacular depictions of the Tudor and Stuart eras, to the improvements and squalor of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries and, finally, renderings of the city's Olympic and post-Olympic future, London : A Life in Maps traces an epic visual journey