The Foundation Meeting of the International Society of the History of the Map (ISHM) will take place at the School of Advanced Study, University of London by kind permission of the Dean at 3.30pm on Thursday 1 December 2011. The organization will be based in London, UK and registered according to UK law.The Society’s website will be hosted by the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

ISHM is a new international, interdisciplinary learned society. Our objective (to be adopted by the Founding Meeting) is to advance the study of the history of maps in all societies and over all periods of time.

ISHM is open to anyone who would like to join.

For more information/registration please, visit our new website at:

ishm.elte.hu

Zsolt G. Török,
Chair of the Founding Group for ISHM