Manchester - mapping the city book

ORDERING from publishers Birlinn from Waterstones from Amazon UK from Amazon (USA)	Manchester : Mapping the City This innovative new book uses historic maps and unpublished original plans to chart the dramatic growth and transformation of Manchester as it grew rich on its cotton trade from the late 18th century, experienced periods of boom and bust through the Victorian period, and began its post-industrial transformation in the 20th century. Manchester: Mapping the City is the first history of the city seen through the eyes of its cartographers and their maps. DETAILS Published by Birlinn, October 2018 ISBN 9781780275307 Hardback format and full colour illustrations, 272pp RRP £30 Take a look through the book on this short video..

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Acknowledgements and map sources 1728 Eighteenth century panoramic views 1746 The town’s first authentic street map 1753 Shudehill and the Hulme Charity 1780 The first modern canal 1788 The development of estate land in the growing town 1793 Laurent and Green: copy or complement? 1809 Town directories and Pigot’s Manchester plans 1819 ‘The Peterloo Massacre’ 1824a The mixed legacy of grand houses 1824b The coming of railways 1831 Spinning mills and the making of Cottonopolis 1832a Lines on maps: Dawson and parliamentary boundaries 1832b Moving the starting line: ‘Manchester’ race courses 1837 Victoria Park: a gated enclave 1849 The scourge of cholera 1851a Adshead’s map: a flawed masterpiece 1851b Municipal parks: health and civic pride 1857 The Art Treasures Exhibition and illustrated town guides 1866 A municipal palace: Alfred Waterhouse’s Town Hall 1868 Paying the cabbie 1881 Delivering plentiful clean water to the city 1889a ‘The demon drink’ 1889b A bird’seye view 1889c The fear of fire: Goad’s insurance plans 1892 Salford at the end of Victorian industrialisation 1894 Manchester Ship Canal: ‘The Big Ditch’ 1896 Trafford Park: the first industrial estate 1904 Mapping Manchester’s slums 1906 Victoria Station’s railway wall map 1908 Garden suburbs: Burnage and Chorltonville 1912 The Royal Exchange: ‘parliament of the cotton lords’ 1916 The handy penny tram 1923 Moving the goalposts: Old Trafford and Maine Road 1926 Civic Week: a cartoon cartography of the city 1928 Wythenshawe: satellite town or garden city? 1937 Entertainments: stage, screen and the music scene 1945 Postwar visionary planning 1956 Fantasy transport: unrealised plans above and below ground 1958 Belle Vue: bread and circuses 1960 Introducing parking meters 1967 Masterplanning an educational precinct 1972a Soviet mapping: a view from the East 1972b Hulme Crescents and after 1975 Air pollution and smoke control areas 1976 Mapping the most famous street in Manchester 1978 The Arndale: shopping behemoth 1982a Taking to the skies: Manchester Airport 1982b Defining the green belt 1985 Inventing Salford Quays and MediaCity 1986 Castlefield: urban heritage 1996a Reconfiguring the city centre after the IRA bomb 1996b One man maps the city centre 2001 Regenerating east Manchester 2016 Recognising the wider city region Further reading Index	SAMPLE CHAPTERS These samples are taken from the uncorrected page proofs. The Introduction (download chapter as a pdf) 1824 - The Coming of Railways (download chapter as a pdf) 1904 - Mapping Manchester's Slums (download chapter as a pdf) 1986 - Castlefield: Urban Heritage (download chapter as a pdf)
KEY FEATURES looks the history of Manchester using a rich array of more than 100 street maps, land surveys, engineering plans and promotional birds-eye view. features original maps from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, drawing on local archives and libraries. Illustrates and discusses the significant events and places that have featured in Manchester’s history, such as Peterloo, the Ship Canal and the docks in Salford, Town Hall, Belle Vue, Victoria Station, and the two football grounds. Tells the story of some of the influential map-makers who have surveyed Manchester. Large format and lavish full colour illustrations throughout.	THE AUTHORS Terry Wyke is Honorary Research Fellow in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His Public Sculpture in Greater Manchester was the winner of the Portico Book Prize in 2005. Brian Robson is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Manchester University where he worked on urban policy. Since retiring he has pursued his long-held fascination with historic urban maps.He has recently published a paper on Pigot's directory maps for Manchester in the Cartographic Journal. Martin Dodge is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Manchester University. Much of his current research focuses on Manchester and he has co-curated several high-profile public exhibitions about the city, including Infra_MANC and Making Post-war Manchester. Email: m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk
Excerpt of Civic Week cartoon map, 1926 (Browse the full map online from University of Manchester Library)	Excerpt from Charles Laurent's street map, 1793 (Browse the full map online from University of Manchester Library)
SOURCES AND SUGGESTIONS The book is based on many years of research and disparate collecting of maps, plans and cartographic ephemera by the authors. We have been greatly helped by many people. Local librarians and archivists in a range of Manchester's key institutions have been especially generous in giving us their time and support. Staff at Chetham’s Library have taken a close interest in the project from its outset and generously allowed us to use the rich collection of maps and plans held by the Library. Special thanks are also due to the helpful staff at Manchester Central Library and Archives+; The maps team at Manchester University Library and the Heritage Imaging Team at the John Rylands Library; Other helpful institutions that provided maps and plans directly or provided helpful directions include the National Library of Scotland; Salford Local History Library; the Portico Library;the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport; the Manchester United Museum; the Canal Maps Archive; Trafford Archives and Local Studies; We also gained much benefit from the sterling efforts Digital Archives who have digitised several important historic maps for Manchester. Expert help and guidance with the illustrations was provided by Graham Bowden and Nick Scarle in the Cartographic Unit, University of Manchester. Suggestions for accessing historic maps of Manchester online: Archives+ collection on Flickr University of Manchester Library digitised map collection Manchester maps interactive site Talks: Dodge M, 2018, "Mapping Manchester", Mapping Manchester for Researchers, John Rylands Library, 4 December 2018. (slides of the presentation) Dodge M, 2018, "Manchester: Mapping the City", Portico Library, Manchester, 5 December 2018. (slides of the presentation); Photograph of the Portico Library talk, courtesy of Carly Richardson	PUBLICITY AND PRESS Download promotional leaflet and flyer Download the design of the book's dust jacket The press release via the University of Manchester, 3rd October 2018, "Book reveals exquisite and detailed map of Victorian Manchester" Press coverage for the book: i News, 19th October 2018, "How commuters in Victorian Manchester travelled with the ‘Uber of 1868’" by Dean Kirby The Northern Quota, 28th October 2018, "Mapping the City - new book explores the history of Manchester" by Katherine Relton-Grice Manchester Evening News, 25 November 2018, "The long-lost maps that tell the incredible story of Manchester" by Damon Wilkinson Your Manchester Magazine, Autumn 2018, "Putting Manchester on the map" Reviews of the book: Review in the Society of Cartographers Bulletin (Dec. 2018) by A.H. Schulenburg Review in the International Map Collectors' Society Journal (No. 156, March 2019) by Donna Sherman Review in North West Geography (vol. 19, no.1, 2019) by Paul Hindle Review in the LivingMaps Review (spring 2019) by Jeremy Crump Review in GoodReads (8 May 2019) by Ali Davenport Review in WAML Information Bulletin (vol. 50. no. 2, March 2019) by Paige G. Andrew Review in Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society (vol. 111, 2019) by Morris Garratt Review in Sheetlines, Journal of the Charles Close Society (vol. 114, April 2019) by John Davies Review in The Local Historian (vol. 49, no. 3, July 2019) by Katrina Navickas Window display of the book in Waterstones flagship Manchester store on Deansgate (October 2018)