See the Magnificent Maps of London

Maps are curious documents – they are often aesthetically pleasing to look at, and they convey useful information, but they are also often intensely political, defining boundaries and borders where power and ownership lay.
And now an exhibition has opened that shows the wide range of maps of London that have been made over the centuries.
Ranging from one of the oldest surviving maps of the City of London right up to a very modern tube map, what the exhibition seeks to show is how maps have