Old Map of Cambridge in 1575 by Georg Braun - Trinity, King's, Queens' 19th-century fishing artwork and lightly shaded color blocks

and lightly shaded color blocks

Step back into the annals of history with this 1851 map of ancient Palestine

birthplace of Henry V

it captures the region’s blend of old-world pride and contemporary readiness

with St James's Park and other green spaces marked among the newly laid-out streets

Old Map of Cambridge in 1575 by Georg Braun - Trinity, King's, Queens' 19th-century fishing artwork and lightly shaded color blocksPublished in 1575 by Georg Braun and engraved by Frans Hogenberg for their great atlas of world cities, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, this is one of the very first printed maps of Cambridge, shown here under its Latin name, Cantabrigia. It presents the town in bird's eye view, its narrow medieval streets and the River Cam threading through the middle of the picture, at a date when the university had already been the beating heart of the town for well