The IMCoS Annual Dinner, Friday 4th June 2010
at the Royal Overseas League, 5 St. James’s Terrace, London SW1A 1LP.

The Dinner was preceded by the Malcolm Young lecture. Our lecturer this year was Francis Herbert, former Curator of Maps at the Royal Geographical Society.
The title of his lecture was
“Malcolm Young, his life, travels and maps"
a tribute to the founder and first Chairperson of IMCOS.

The IMCoS Helen Wallis Award for 2010 was presented

The IMCoS AGM was held on Saturday 5th June 2010

at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London


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The London Map Fair, 5th and 6th June 2010
at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London.
Further details at:
http://www.londonmapfairs.com

2010 Jonathan Potter This year's winner of the IMCoS-Helen Wallis award is the London map dealer, Jonathan Potter. The presentation was made at this year's annual dinner held on June 4th by the President Sarah Tyacke. Tony Campbell, chairman of the award committee, read the citation describing Jonathan as "a good friend of IMCoS" and a dealer who had worked for 40 years with "undiminished enthusiasm demonstrating that mapselling can be about a lot more than just buying and selling maps." [Full report in IMCoS Journal No.122 Autumn 2010]

Francis Herbert and Richard Young

(Above and below) This year's Map Fair was another success

Participants on tour of the RGS

Jenny Harvey, Advertising Manager, and Stephen Williams, Secretary of IMCoS at the IMCoS stand at the 2009 Map Fair.

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The IMCoS 28th International Symposium -
30 September to 6th October 2010
in London, U.K.

Further information here