07 May 2011, Starts: 10:00, Ends: 16:30

Routes across the Map: Cartography, travel and transport

Seminar organised by the Scottish Maps FOrum with the National Library of Scotland

AK Bell Library, 2-8 York Place, Perth

£20 with lunch / £15 without lunch

Description: The seminar will focus on recent research that has explored the value of maps in understanding the history of transport and communications. It will also look speciically at particular people - surveyors and engineers - who have placed a significant role in developing transport infrastructure and their maps.

Further details and booking form from National Library of Scotland website.