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When Britannia ruled the waves
Country Life UK
|August 20,2025
ARTS Minister Sir Chris Bryant has placed an export bar on an extraordinary collection of British maritime charts, valued at $6 million, which is at risk of being sold abroad.
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The companies Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson were the leading commercial chart-making firms of the late 18th and 19th centuries; the collection comprises more than 200 of their working charts, plus artefacts including a copper plate for an original chart by the explorer Capt James Cook, who made the first navigation of New Zeal
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