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Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View
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Surveying the Bird’s-Eye View

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Mark Rosen

Fellow Mark Rosen explores the Folger’s collection from a bird’s-eye view.

The “Quartermaster’s Map” of England and Wales
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The “Quartermaster’s Map” of England and Wales

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Erin Blake

Thanks for the excellent guesses on the identity of the August Crocodile Mystery! If you’ll permit me to indulge myself, I’ll prolong the suspense a little longer by showing some examples of what it might have been, but isn’t (and…

Mapping Shakespeare's plays: an experiment
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Mapping Shakespeare's plays: an experiment

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Charles Webb

A guest post by Charles Webb Friends, Romans, Countrymen: lend me your eyes For the past eight months I have split my time between working at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Dumbarton Oaks as a Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow.…

Faire Europe: Ortelius, Mercator, and the continents
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Faire Europe: Ortelius, Mercator, and the continents

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Abbie Weinberg

Maps, today, are ubiquitous. We have them in our phones, on our public transit, on walls and signs everywhere you turn. Many people learn to read and interpret them from an early age. Conventions that we don’t even know are…

Peeking behind the locked door
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Peeking behind the locked door

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Kathleen Lynch

Another sede vacante has come and gone. With the wall-to-wall coverage of contemporary media, this one made witnesses of us all. Or at least, the coverage let us witness the events outside the conclave and to share our speculation about…