Two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo, the Emperor of the French looms larger than ever over this weekend’s London map fair. Book dealer Tim Bryars picks highlights from this year’s event, ...

If Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, as Wellington is supposed to have said, it may have been lost by Napoleon’s map-makers. A printing error left the ...

Rare find in German library reveals details of Filfla, aqueduct and reef A structure comprising a fort, a lighthouse and a monastery with a chapel dominated the islet of Filfla some 200 years ago, ...