Event video

Explore how 18th century cartography was vital to governing and expanding the British Empire, starting at Governor Shirley’s Roxbury mansion

Garrett Dash Nelson, curator of the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center explores just how Boston, New England and the historic Shirley-Eustis House were situated in the British Empire’s Northern Atlantic ambitions. Beautifully rendered and detailed historic maps from the 1700s reveal how Governor William Shirley and others tried to shape those ambitions

For additional information or assistance, contact the

Shirley-Eustis House Association

Email: director@shirleyeustishouse.org

Call: 617-442-2275

Registration limited to 75 participants