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MAPS OF HISTORY
★ ★ ★  INTERACTIVE ATLASES OF WORLD HISTORY

History, spread across the table.

Interactive history maps for AP & IB students, teachers, homeschoolers and serious readers. Borders move, campaigns draw themselves, and every chapter argues why — thirteen atlases now, more each season, all on one membership.

GUIDED ATLAS TOURS PRINTABLE STUDY GUIDES FIELD EXAMS ON THE MAP OFFLINE FILES YOU KEEP

THIS MAP IS ALIVE — HOVER ANY COUNTRY · SCRUB THE YEARS BELOW · CLICK TO STEP INSIDE

CHOOSE YOUR ATLAS ↓ TRY THE FREE SAMPLE →

★ WW2 ATLAS FREE — NO SIGN-UP. MEMBERSHIP OPENS EVERYTHING · £89/YEAR · OR £12.99/MO · CANCEL ANYTIME.

MAR 1936
An armed peace
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PART 1

TODAY

THREE MINUTES A DAY — A MAP, A FIND, A QUESTION
▶ TODAY’S MAP · 3 MINUTES
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OPEN TODAY’S MAP →
◆ TODAY’S FIND
READ THE CHAPTER →
⚑ YOUR STREAK
1DAY IN A ROW
TODAY’S DISPATCH

DAILY QUESTION

A fresh question every day, drawn from the exams. Answer here — then go check it on the map.

PART 2

THE ATLASES

THIRTEEN INTERACTIVE ATLASES · 264 BC – 1994
★ THIRTEEN ATLASES — WW2 IS FREE IN FULL; CHAPTERS 1–2 OF EVERY OTHER ATLAS ARE FREE TO SAMPLE. EACH IS A GUIDED TOUR, A MAP YOU CAN EXPLORE, AND A FIELD EXAM.
Nº 01

THE COLLECTION

The catalogue below is the whole collection at a glance — every open atlas in the order of its era. Each is a full atlas: a guided tour, a map you can explore freely, and a field exam. Click any row to open it, or browse the eras beneath.

★ THE CATALOGUE — EVERY ATLAS ON THE TABLE, 264 BC TO 1994. CLICK A ROW TO OPEN IT.

▸ NEW MAPS OPEN IN THE ORDER SHOWN · MEMBERS VOTE ON WHAT COMES NEXT · SUGGEST ONE — WRITE TO US

PART 3

YOUR PROGRESS

WHAT YOU’VE READ · YOUR STREAK · WHAT’S LEFT
★ YOUR PROGRESS
PART 4

KEEP IT GOING

READING PLANS · ONE EMAIL WHEN A NEW ATLAS OPENS
Nº 02

READING PLANS

A plan gives your reading a shape: a set list of chapters and a clear finish line. Start one and your progress is tracked in YOUR PROGRESS above — one plan at a time, stop whenever you like.

Nº 03

THE DISPATCH

When a new atlas opens, we send one short email — what it covers and where to start. Nothing else, ever.

ONE EMAIL PER NEW ATLAS · UNSUBSCRIBE ANYTIME
Be first through the door.

NO TRACKING · YOUR ADDRESS IS USED FOR THE DISPATCH AND NOTHING ELSE · ALSO REACHABLE BY EMAIL

PART 5

MEMBERSHIP

WHO IT’S FOR · WHAT IT COSTS · HOW IT’S MADE
Nº 04

WHO IT’S FOR

Built for people who want history argued, not just listed. A few of the ways it gets used:

Studying for IB or AP History

Every atlas is tagged to the syllabus. Chapter questions and field exams are written like Paper 2 answers — the argument shown, not just the result.

Teaching a course

Project any atlas, assign the exams, and hand out printable chapter summaries. One membership covers your classroom; whole-school licences by email.

Homeschooling

A term of history in one place — narrative, geography and testing — with hard subjects handled soberly. One membership serves the household.

Reading for its own sake

You want the why — argued from evidence, with the uncertainty named — and you would rather own the maps than scroll another feed.

Coming from strategy games

You know the 1941 map. Here is the doctrine, logistics and blunders behind every front line — then prove it on the field exam.

Buying a gift

Give a membership, or a lifetime Patron place — the recipient’s name printed in the credits of every future atlas.

★ EXAMS IN EIGHT WEEKS? THE EXAM SPRINT — FULL ACCESS FOR THE AP/IB SEASON, £19 FOR 8 WEEKS, EVERY POUND CREDITED TOWARD ANNUAL IF YOU STAY →
Nº 05

THE EVIDENCE

Counted from the atlas files themselves — not rounded up. And three panels lifted straight from inside an atlas, so you can see what a chapter, an exam and a study sheet actually look like.

10 ATLASES OPEN 123 GUIDED CHAPTERS 175 DATED MAP STATES 472 MAPPED SITES 150 EXAM QUESTIONS EVERY FIGURE COUNTED DIRECTLY FROM THE PUBLISHED ATLAS FILES · 264 BC – AD 1994
INSIDE AN ATLAS · THE GUIDED TOUR
CHAPTER 9 · JUL 1942 – FEB 1943 · THE SECOND WORLD WAR

The Hinge: Stalingrad and El Alamein

Each chapter is a camera move: the map flies to the front, the borders change under you, and the causes are argued — not asserted.

◉ THE SITES▶ TOUR THE SITES ⟲ REPLAY MOVES
INSIDE AN ATLAS · THE FIELD EXAM
✓ CORRECT
FIELD EXAM · FROM CHAPTER 3 — BLITZKRIEG IN THE WEST

France fell in six weeks despite having more tanks than Germany. The best explanation is —

A · German tanks were technically far superior B · Germany concentrated its armor and moved faster than French command could react ✓ C · France had no air force
INSIDE AN ATLAS · THE PRINTABLE STUDY SHEET
THE SECOND WORLD WAR — STUDY SHEET
CHAPTER 9 · THE HINGE: STALINGRAD AND EL ALAMEIN
WHY IT HAPPENED

Oil, again · A name worth an army? · The Atlantic pipeline

THE TURN

Operation Uranus, 19–23 November — the pincers aim not at the Sixth Army but at the Romanian armies guarding its flanks.

FIELD QUESTION

Why did Hitler forbid the Sixth Army to break out of the pocket while escape was still possible?

PRINTS FROM ANY ATLAS · ▤ THE STUDY SHEET
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MEMBERSHIP

One membership opens all thirteen atlases — and every new one the day it lands. The WW2 atlas is free in full, and chapters 1–2 of every other atlas are free to sample; everything else is included when you join.

THE PLAN MOST PEOPLE TAKE MAPS OF HISTORY · PERSONAL ANNUAL

Every atlas, as it opens

£89 / YEAR · UNDER £7.50 A MONTH
  • All thirteen open atlases, in full — plus every new one the day it opens
  • Printable study guides and complete exam sets, for study or teaching
  • Every atlas as a file you keep — offline, even if you cancel
JOIN ANNUAL — £89/YEAR → OR MONTHLY AT £12.99 · CANCEL ANYTIME · 30-DAY FULL REFUND
OTHER PLACES AT THE TABLE

Classrooms, schools & patrons

  • Teacher — £149/year. One classroom, projection rights, every exam set
  • School — £699/year. A whole-school licence, every department
  • Patron — £449 once, lifetime. Your name in the credits of every future atlas
  • Exam Sprint — £19 for 8 weeks. Full access for the AP/IB season; the £19 is credited toward annual if you stay
SEE ALL PLANS → EVERY PLAN OPENS THE SAME THIRTEEN ATLASES

Not sure? Start monthly at £12.99, or take the £19 Exam Sprint — either way, what you have paid is credited toward annual if you upgrade. Payment runs through Stripe; your files are yours offline whatever you decide; and for thirty days the refund is total and unquestioned.

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ABOUT MAPS OF HISTORY

Most history arrives as text — a corridor of names and dates. But the questions that matter are spatial: why there, why then, what next door made it possible? Commanders understood this; that is why they stood over map tables. Maps of History puts you at that table.

Each atlas is built like a period instrument and written like a modern seminar: real cartography, primary chronology, causes argued rather than asserted, and the honest uncertainty of the record — casualty ranges, debated turning points, simplified borders — acknowledged on the map itself.

No ads, no third-party tracking. Every atlas is one self-contained document — save the page and it is yours offline, and members keep every file even after they cancel.

THE HOUSE STANDARDS

Real geometry — Natural Earth cartography, period projections, hand-placed fronts and campaigns.
Causes and consequences are first-class: every chapter argues why, not just what.
Named uncertainty — estimates carry ranges, debates are presented as debates.
Memory sites — atrocities are marked soberly, never gamified.
Colorblind-checked palettes, keyboard navigation, reduced-motion support.
Single-file atlases — no dependencies, no servers, no rot.
Walks beside the IB History syllabus — prescribed subjects and world-history topics each get their own chart, tagged on every card. (Independent; not affiliated with the IB.)