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episode 24: Kevin Sheehan: “There’s something good about using old ways of doing things.”
East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how to make your own 1400s-style transfer paper with candle soot, and how “there’s something good about using, or at least trying, old ways of doing things.” See his work at https://www.manuscriptmaps.com
- The Moon Map
- Whisky Map of Scotland
- Gin Map of Great Britain & Ireland
- The Paris Map
- Kevin’s calfskin portolan map
- The 1403 original by Franciscus Becharius
- Created for his doctoral thesis: The Functions of Portolan Maps: An evaluation of the utility of manuscript nautical cartography from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries
- Pergamena
- Claire Fanjul
- Francesca Baerald
- Sara Farooqi
- Neil Gower
- Anton Thomas
- Rumsey map collection
- NACIS annual meeting
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