John Speed – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

A Theatre of Treasures

Posted on 11 October 2016 by Anne Taylor

The third of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Anne Taylor, Head of the Map Department: In 1968 an application was […]

Digital Resources, Events, Maps, Special Collections

Speed maps now in the Cambridge Digital Library

Posted on 23 March 2015 by Andrew

John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures. Published in 1611/12, it marked the first time […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Maps, Special Collections

‘Picture This #4’—John Speed map of Cambridgeshire

Posted on 5 September 2011 by Special Collections

The map of Cambridgeshire from the Library’s copy of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is the fourth image in the University’s […]

Maps

Mapping the origins of a masterpiece

Posted on 21 April 2011 by Special Collections

Published 400 years ago, the first comprehensive atlas of Great Britain has been digitised by Cambridge University Library, home to one of only five surviving […]

Maps