{"id":1844968,"date":"2025-09-16T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1844968"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:39:34","slug":"two-books-map-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/two-books-map-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Books Map London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"501\" data-attachment-id=\"1844969\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/two-books-map-london\/london-map-books-batsford\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1520,743\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"london-map-books-batsford\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-300x147.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-1024x501.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-1024x501.jpg\" alt=\"Book covers for The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown (Batsford, October 2025) and Modern London Maps by Vincent Westbrook (Batsford, May 2025).\" class=\"wp-image-1844969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-1024x501.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-940x459.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford-818x400.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/london-map-books-batsford.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Batsford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two books out this year, both from Batsford, explore London through maps. Vincent Westbrook\u2019s <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batsfordbooks.com\/book\/modern-london-maps\/\">Modern London Maps<\/a><\/strong><\/em> focuses on more than 60 maps from the 20th century. Like many books of this kind, <em>Modern London Maps<\/em> draws primarily from a single source: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondonarchives.org\">London Archives<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2025\/modern-london-maps\/\"><em>Mapping London<\/em> reviewed it last month<\/a>: \u201cprobably quite close to the book that we would have published.\u201d And out next month, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batsfordbooks.com\/book\/the-boroughs-of-london\/\">The Boroughs of London<\/a><\/strong><\/em> collects Mike Hall\u2019s \u201cboldly coloured, highly detailed maps of every London borough, inspired by classic 1960s graphic design,\u201d pairing it with commentary by Matt Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><em>Modern London Maps<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;by Vincent Westbrook.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batsfordbooks.com\/book\/modern-london-maps\/\">Batsford<\/a>, 8 May 2025, \u00a330.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/1849949395\/maproom-20\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/o\/ASIN\/1849949395\/maproomca-20\">Canada<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/1849949395\/thmaro-21\">UK<\/a>),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2925\/9781849949392\">Bookshop<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><em>The Boroughs of London<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;by Mike Hall and Matt Brown.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.batsfordbooks.com\/book\/the-boroughs-of-london\/\">Batsford<\/a>, 9 Oct 2025, \u00a330.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/183733000X\/maproom-20\">Amazon<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/o\/ASIN\/183733000X\/maproomca-20\">Canada<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/183733000X\/thmaro-21\">UK<\/a>),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2925\/9781837330003\">Bookshop<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/map-books-of-2025\/\">Map Books of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two books out this year, both from Batsford, explore London through maps. Vincent Westbrook\u2019s Modern London Maps focuses on more than 60 maps from the 20th century. Like many books of this kind, Modern London&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/09\/two-books-map-london\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[{"did":"did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo","date":"2025-09-16T12:35:39+00:00","uri":"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lyxdhsfl7w27","response":"{\"uri\":\"at:\/\/did:plc:hhxrnk4vub7jtlcl3ve26kjo\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lyxdhsfl7w27\",\"cid\":\"bafyreibqt3nor4c6vlz22c4xuk52dnhqxflxiakwyfq5vc4yervijzpzyq\",\"commit\":{\"cid\":\"bafyreicyii7om7ugdmlvd23u53wtdxjknrhpgwqx6qdigdo5yrnz4af3w4\",\"rev\":\"3lyxdhsfszw27\"},\"validationStatus\":\"valid\"}"}],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49],"tags":[30,54,166],"class_list":["post-1844968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-art","tag-books","tag-cities","tag-london","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785909,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/maps-of-london-and-beyond\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844968,"position":0},"title":"Maps of London and Beyond","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 July 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Adam Dant's\u00a0Maps of London and Beyond (Batsford, 7 June) is a collection of the artist's \"beautiful, witty and subversive\" maps. 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