Tom Crawford receives the prestigious HGRG Dissertation Prize
14 September 2012
The School is proud to announce that Tom Crawford has received the prestigious HGRG (Historical Geography Research Group) Dissertation Prize for 2012. The panel concluded that Tom's dissertation entitled "Production, power and performance in the Atlas novus of 1675 by W. and J. Blaeu" was 'superb'. Tom will receive £200 worth of Ashgate books and an invitation to speak at the Practising Historical Geographies session this November.Tom is currently employed within the School as a Research Assistant for an online exhibition of rare atlases organized by the School and the UoB Library's Special Collections.
The exhibition will include cartographic gems preserved in Special Collections like copies of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1574), Camden's Britannia (1610) and Blaeu's Atlas Novus (1675), as well as more recent atlases, including Second World War and Cold War exemplars.
Tom Crawford
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