Copperplate Map: The Place Names Explained

Bonus treat for you lucky subscribers.

Welcome to your Friday email, just for paying subscribers. As a special treat this week, I’m deviating from the usual format to say a bit more (well, a lot more) about the Copperplate map, whose newly coloured form was the main feature of Wednesday’s newsletter. As you’ll recall, this is London’s earliest surviving map, dating from the 1550s. I’ve been …