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In the past year the Sheldon Tapestry Maps of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire dating from the late Tudor period have all been displayed in the Bodleian’s Weston Library; the final member of this set, Warwickshire, is on display just over 40 miles away in Warwick.
The Weston Library is hosting a one-day symposium to celebrate these stunning cartographic masterpieces, exploring their historical context in terms of mapmaking and their place in society; marvelling at conservation work, and bringing the tapestries up to date with the latest research on both their content and creation.
This is a series of presentations by expert speakers about the results of the most recent research and conservation work.
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 4 | Creative Commons | Fitting it in, filling it out: from Christopher Saxton's survey to Ralph Sheldon's tapestry maps | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Hilary Turner | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | The Catholic Gentry in Ralph Sheldon’s Midlands | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Katie McKeogh | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Power, Propaganda, Magnificence: the cartographic background to the Sheldon tapestry maps | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Peter Barber | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 1 | One stitch at the time: Returning the Sheldon Tapestry Maps to life | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Nick Millea, Virginia llado-Buisan | 02 Dec 2019 |