Map Man
Map Man is a TV show on BBC2. The long-running program has been available since 2013. A total of 24 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2015.
Last broadcast:20/02/2015 at 10:30
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In the 1600s, the north of Ireland attracted Protestant colonists from England and Scotland, including James Hamilton, the 1st Viscount Clandeboye and Sir Hugh Montgomery. After a dispute over their land borders, Thomas Raven was commissioned by Hamilton to map his estates. Cran...
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Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. After getting lost in London using a map that hadn't been updated since 1918, Phyllis Pearsall decided to map the whole of London herself. She claimed to have set out at 5.00am each day and worked 18 hours a day, walking all 23,000 of London's stree... 29:00
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The first edition of the Ordnance Survey was the product of the most complete mapping study of Britain since the Tudors. For the first time, there were maps linking county to county, based on a scale of one inch to the mile. The end of the 18th century was a bad time for Britain. The American colonies had just been lost. N... 29:00
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Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain. 29:00
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Nicholas Crane travels across Britain using historical maps that changed the face of Britain. 29:00
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In the 1740s, at the time of the Jacobite rising, young Orkney schoolmaster Murdoch Mackenzie decided that the treacherous waters around Orkney should be properly mapped. Hundreds of ships had been lost in the Northern Passage, the stretch of water between the north coast of mainland Scotland and Orkney, and it was no long... 29:00
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Can Nick find a missing mountain pass where the last wolves in Scotland roamed? Timothy Pont graduated from St Andrew's in 1583 and set off to survey Scotland. It was a major undertaking at a time when wolves still roamed the Highlands and it was difficult and dangerous to travel in rival clan territory. Over 18 years he m... 29:00
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When cycling took off in Britain in a big way in the 1880s, everybody wanted to get on a bicycle and head for the country. And for all these keen bicyclers, Bartholomew made the very first cycling maps. With the best cycling routes and information for the Victorian cyclist, these maps were highly popular and distinctive. I...