Blog post
Mapping untold stories: women in the London chart trade
Thanks to the work of librarians and curators at the Osher Map Library in Maine, USA, we now know a lot more about the range of women’s involvement in the map trade. Their work highlights the variety of roles women occupied, working as surveyors, compilers, engravers, publishers, and sellers.
Looking at the chart trade in earlier nineteenth-century London similarly reveals women were involved in a number of ways, all integral to the provision of navigational information to seagoing vessels.
Our Curator of Cartography, Megan Barford, reveals the vital role women played in aiding navigation at sea.