Wolf Hall, Maps (Entry 4)

Anyone want to look at a map of the Thames, the transportation hub of Tudor London?
I had a tough time finding a map that gives me what I want.

Here is what I found.

Putney is at the west on this map on the Thames. Cromwell's childhood.

Hampton Court  is about two inches west of this map on the Thames.

You see Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. Not shown but just north of these is Whitehall, King Henry's place in town, which is called York Place in the book. See below.

And the Tower of London on the eastern half of the London Thames River. Holds offices (Cromwell's) and the infamous prison, which is no one's favorite place.

Austin Friars (Cromwell's home)  is where Bank of England stands now; on this map it is just north of Old Billingsgate Market.

Some old buildings stand. Some knocked down. Most new owners.  Such as Hampton Court. Started the book and Cardinal Wolsey went there for his country home. Soon it became Henry's to play in.



Another map of England, with some of the locations mentioned in the book marked.

London,
Oxford.
Cambridge.

York.

But when they say, York Place, that is not York up north. It is what we now know as Whitehall in London. The land was purchased in 1240 by the Archbishop of York. Cardinal Wolsey expanded this palace so it was the biggest and grandest in London, better than King Henry VIII. So when Wolsey was outsted, Henry VIII took over York Hall/ Whitehall and made it even better. He and Anne Boleyn moved out of Westminster and into Whitehall for their London residence.

Queen Katherine is at Ampthill in Bedford, a bit north of London.

You have Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. And Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Those counties are nested together on the coast, east of London. East Anglia.

Off the map, across the English Channel, the English city of Calais.

Here's an interesting diagram of Austin Friars, where Cromwell's home is, set atop modern streets in London.

This was a monastery. Five acres. Cromwell's home was next to it. This is in London now, but had land around it back in 1500's.

His home is now the Draper's Hall in this map.

Garden of Evening Mists (Entry 2) Malaya maps

1989 Malaysia

I am absolutely loving this month's book, The Garden of Evening Mists.  Yugiri.                        

As my history and geography background is scattered, had to look up some context. Here's a map of current southeast Asia, with Malaysia in teal acting as bookends to the south South China Sea. Singapore and Brunei are carved out.

 I always wondered where the Sultan of Brunei hailed from. Now I know.

BUT BUT BUT they talk about Malaya as well as Malaysia.. notice the deleted "si". We start off  in 1989 in Malaysia,  but we dive back to 1940-45. Teoh Yun Ling might be telling us about her life in other years also, but this is as far as I have gotten in the story.

In 1989, the map of Malaysia looked like above. From 1946 to 1965 the British territories on the Malayan Peninsular, along with several islands and part of Borneo all did 19 years of a Scottish reel of joining, separating, joining, changing formal names .... which ended in the above map. A bumpy road. So the above map is the Malaysia of Teoh Yun Ling's present. 

1940 British Malaya

Now we have the time of 1940-45, Yun Ling's past.  British Malaya initially was three parts, all having to do with how they were governed by the British. On the map to the left are the Straits Settlements (red), the Unfederated States (blue) and the Federated Malay States (yellow.)          

From 1942-45 the Japanese occupied all of British Malaya. 

In 1945 at the end of World War II, the British took over rule again.  Here's when Yun Ling journeyed  to the Cameroon Highlands, to meet with Arimoto. And stay with Magnus Pretorius.  Below you will find the Cameroon Highlands, Tanah Rata, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh. 

Current Malaysian Peninsula