Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography

Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography 78.1 (2026) is out! Check out articles by José María García Redondo, Juliet Wiersema, Charles W.J. Withers ,and Felix Frey that explore map making from seventeenth-century Mexico City to twenty-first-century Switzerland. Production, circulation, consumption... it's all there online, and on its way to subscribers.

The issue also welcomes A Life in Maps interview of artist and cartographer Loraine Rutt, an expanded Bibliography with events and exhibitions, and thesis abstract, book reviews, and more.

Imago Mundi Volume 78, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi

Imago Mundi invites proposals for a thematic issue on "Maps and the Imagination" edited by Editorial Board member Martin Brückner. See the Call for Papers for details, at:https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/25im-spec-issuecfp-final12-9-2025.pdf

Please send a brief CV (two pages max) and a 500-word proposal (list of maps encouraged) to Dr. Brückner ([email protected]) by March 15, 2026. Accepted papers of 6,000-8,000 words will be due by February 1, 2027.

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Mappy 2026, all. Imago Mundi International Journal on the History of Cartography 77.2 was published online as an end-of-year present in December 2025. Paper copies will follow soon to subscribers.

Of note for many, this issue is the sunset of the Chronicle section, long stewarded by the indefatigable Tony Campbell. We thank Tony and are pleased to confirm that news of events and exhibitions will continue.

Researchers Hayley Cotter, Luis Robles Macías, and Yannan Ding draw our attention --respectively-- to the maps in a seventeenth-century English legal text, flags as symbols useful for dating portolan charts, and an informative sevententeenth-century manuscript map of Vietnam in France's national archives.

A Forum, Where Does Map History Go Now?, digs into themes raised in September 2024's ISHMap-Imago Mundi-History of Cartography Project symposium. Carla Lois, Yannan Ding, Mirela Altic, André Reyes Novaes, Philip Jagessar and Martin Davis offer thoughtful looks back on recent developments and questions to consider for the future. As always, we welcome your responses.

Check out the ToC for info on :
-- Book reviews
-- An abstract of Grégoire Binois' thesis on military maps in eighteenth-century France
-- Updates from ISHMap and the ICHC Prague 2026 teams
& more

Subscribers will find articles and authors may submit manuscripts at: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rimu20