Navy League Pocket Map of the British Empire Date of Publication_c.1760 Original cloth

Original cloth

By HW Parish of the Royal Artillery and J Barrow

published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee

It shows villages

printed over a 45 year period between 1572 and 1617

Navy League Pocket Map of the British Empire Date of Publication_c.1760 Original clothFounded in 1894, on the cusp of the Anglo German naval arms race, the Navy League was a pressure group seeking to influence politicians and popular opinion (including the nations youth) in the cause of maintaining a powerful navy to protect British interests overseas through trade and empire. The borders of this map show flags and badges of the British Empire, and a smaller map at the foot charts its historical growth. At the bottom is a series of