Layers of London, an interactive map-based project at the Institute of Historical Research, a member of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has collaborated with the British Library and Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) to rectify an 18th-century map of London. John Rocque’s ‘Ten miles round’ has been superimposed onto a modern map of London for the first time resulting in a detailed window onto Greater London’s past made freely accessible to the public.

Given Oxford’s overarching image as a city of stability and privilege, it gets a more rounded perspective, including some uncomfortable truths, with  Oxford Unwrapped organised by the University of Oxford (TORCH – The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).  

Travellers generally don’t get a good press. Which adds to the importance of Scottish Traveller, storyteller, singer and piper Stanley Robertson, an immensely cultured man who had a huge repertoire of stories and northeast ballads. 

The School of Advanced Study launches the University of London Press The University of London Press will build on a century of publishing tradition by disseminating distinctive scholarship at the forefront of the humanities. Based at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), the press will seek to facilitate collaborative, inclusive, open access, scholar-led interchange, within and beyond the academy.