Description
Join us for the official launch of the Bradford Map, a beautifully crafted historical map developed by the Historic Towns Trust. Hosted in the elegant surroundings of Bradford City Hall, this special evening event will feature a display of the map, mingling over drinks and nibbles, and a series of engaging talks.
The evening will include a welcome from Bradford Literature Festival and the Historic Towns Trust, followed by talks from Ian Roberts, local archaeologist and project lead; Giles Darkes, the Trust’s Cartographic Editor and expert mapmaker; and Jerry Brotton, Bradford-born historian and author of Four Points of the Compass.
Celebrate Bradford’s rich past through the lens of cartography in this unique cultural evening.
This event is supported by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, we are very grateful for their financial support and for making this event possible. We are also kindly supported by the Institute of the Public Understanding of the Past, University of York.
We wish to thank the following organisations for making the production of the map possible: The Normanby Charitable Trust, The Charles & Elsie Sykes Trust, The Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society, CBA Yorkshire, Joseph Fattorini Charitable Trust, Bradford Historical & Antiquarian Society, and a number of individual donors.
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About the Speaker
Giles Darkes
Giles Darkes is a professional cartographer. He trained in geography and cartography and specialises in thematic and historical mapping. Formerly a university lecturer in cartography, he has worked on a range of cartographic projects including the Atlas of the World’s Languages and An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire as well as a range of map illustrations for books and articles. As Cartographic Editor for the Historic Towns Trust, he is in charge of creating the maps for the Trust’s publications, adding the historical information and for the design and layout of the maps and atlases.
About the Historian
Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts was formerly the principal archaeologist for Archaeological Services WYAS, overseeing archaeological projects throughout Yorkshire. More recently he has operated as a freelance archaeological consultant, and the archaeologist for Bradford Cathedral. Ian is also a long-standing member of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society. His career has provided opportunities to publish on a wide range of subjects, including the prehistoric and Romano-British cropmark landscapes and settlements, the kingdom of Elmet, medieval Pontefract, medieval and post-medieval pottery production sites, and medieval churches. His work in Bradford has included work at the cathedral, and reporting on the findings from the Broadway shopping centre excavations – the only archaeological investigation to have so far taken place within the city centre.
About the Author
Jerry Brotton
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a regular broadcaster and critic as well the author of The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize), This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, and the bestselling and award-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into twenty languages.
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