Mapping the British Empire: John Arrowsmith and the business of mapmaking in the mid-nineteenth century

The project examines the influential British Arrowsmith map company and the global circuits of their map products in the mid-nineteenth century. Through this focused lens the project aims to shed new light on the mapping of the British Empire and the relationship between maps and colonialism in the mid-19th century by combining perspectives from map history, history of knowledge, print culture studies and colonial history. The project is undertaken at the University of Sussex in 2019-2020 and it is funded by the Osk. Huttunen Foundation and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.