Maps tell us where we
are, where we’ve been, and where we might be going—but they can
also reveal the lives and deaths that have shaped the city around
us.
London is a City of the Dead, and among its countless maps are
those that chart wartime destruction, plague outbreaks, murders,
epidemics, cemeteries and forgotten burial grounds. Together they
reveal a hidden geography of mortality beneath the modern
metropolis.
For more than twenty years, author and Londonist editor Matt Brown
has been exploring and mapping London. In this richly illustrated
talk, he reveals how innovative mapping techniques can uncover
remarkable new perspectives on the capital’s history, revealing the
stories, patterns and forgotten lives hidden within the city’s
streets.
MATT BROWN
Matt Brown is
editor at large of Londonist and the main contributor to
“Londonist: Time Machine”, a newsletter dedicated to the city’s
history. Over 21 years as a professional London explorer, he has
waded along the buried River Fleet, spent a night in a haunted
plague pit, crawled through hidden tunnels beneath London Bridge
and walked the tracks under Leicester Square at 2am. He is the
author of 13 books, including “London Night and Day” (2015),
“Everything You Know About London Is Wrong” (2016), the bestselling
“Atlas of Imagined Places” (2021) and its sequel “Atlas of Imagined
Cities” (2023), with his latest, “The Boroughs of London” (2025),
exploring the quirks and histories of the capital’s 32
boroughs.
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London Maps of the Dead
Exploring London’s Geography of Death |
15:30 - 17:00 | £13.75 |
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