Themed Tours
Take a Themed Tour and explore a subject in much greater detail.
On The Trig
The story of the Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales, including original drawings by the surveyors. Begun under threat of French invasion in the late 18th century, the enterprise produced the famous Ordnance Survey one-inch-to-the-mile maps.
Lost Gardens
Illustrations from manuscripts and early printed books dig into the story of gardening. Diarist, John Evelyn's extensive notes and meticulous plans recreate his influential 17th-century garden at Sayes Court in Deptford - now a high-rise housing estate.
The Old East End
Maps, drawings and eye-witness accounts chart the growth of the East End, from the villages and green fields where Samuel Pepys took country walks, to the expansion of the docks and the social deprivations of 19th-century industrialisation.
