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Getting the Most From the Historic Towns Trust

HTT creates & publishes historical maps of British towns & cities. Making & using historical maps can help us to see how history shapes environment and environment its inhabitants.

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Vanessa Harding

Vanessa Harding

Vanessa Harding is Emeritus Professor of London History at Birkbeck, University of London. She works on medieval and early modern London and aspects of its population, environment, health, mortality, and burial practices. She is currently Chair of the Historic Towns Trust, and contributed to their maps of Medieval London and Tudor London c. 1520.  She is now working on a project to map metropolitan London on the eve of the Great Fire of 1666.

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