Talk at the British Library

Chris Haughton On Maps And Information Literacy

Yesterday I gave another talk at the British Library. This time it was a schools event and a double bill right after the brilliant Katherine Rundell. In the live audience there were a few hundred children - around half a dozen schools. But watching online there were 200 schools! The online audience could have been 6,000 or more (!!)
The British Library are doing these amazing events for free and anyone can sign up to watch them online. Their mailing list is here.

I tailored my talk a little to fit in their theme of maps. See here about how Christopher Colombus relied on Arabic mathematician Al-Farghani’s calculations and Leonardo copied the work of Ibn Al-Haytham’s book of Optics. The British Library currently is in its last weeks of their Secret Maps exhibition. Don’t miss it! Heres a snippet of my talk but the full talk can be accessed for the next two weeks here.

If you know someone who might enjoy this talk please send it to them so they can see it before it disappears.

Katherine Rundell’s talk about maps in fantasy and fiction is also available here for the next two weeks too. I have more exciting collaborations with the British Library coming soon.