News maps of the Ukraine conflict hide as much information as they reveal

Most typical maps show the country as an encircled and embattled nation.

Timothy Barney, The Conversation

· Mar 24, 2022 · 11:30 pm

How the Jesuits helped eighteenth-century China’s Qing rulers chart out Asia

The atlas they produced extends west to the Red Sea, and east to Gioi Ri li Omo in Russia.

Xue Zhang

· Apr 13, 2019 · 11:30 pm

From the archive: Fragile 19th-century paintings depict the lives of ordinary Indians

The illustrations were bought in 1842 by a British sailor who kept an idiosyncratic diary about his voyage to the subcontinent.

University of Cambridge

· Nov 07, 2015 · 09:30 pm