#152 Maps 1 (Part 1)

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week we’re here with the first of two episodes on the history of maps! We’ve got 27,000 year old maps carved onto tusks, maps in ancient Egypt and, the big one, the Mappa Mundi.

Elsewhere this week, we’re discussing that great underrated invention: the coat. Get ready for a potted history of the humble coat. If you’ve got anything on coats that we’ve missed, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.com

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
0:06.4	plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access
0:11.9	to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water
0:16.9	Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in
0:21.7	history you might have popped up for all your options you can go to patreon.com forward slash
0:27.1	oh what a time
0:27.9	hello and welcome to Oh What a Time, the history podcast that asks, was a time before proper winter coats just awful?
0:48.4	When you would head towards winter and you would think, well, this is just going to be hell.
0:55.2	I think this all the time.
0:57.4	There are two things that make me think this.
0:59.8	Because of my likes and personal life, I am a member of lots of Facebook pages that show pictures of football fans on the way to away games in the 80s.
1:11.5	Love it.
1:11.9	It's the kind of thing I like.
1:13.5	They always, always, always, without fail, look bitterly cold.
1:20.2	And none of them have got proper coats on.
1:23.0	And they all look like they're suffering.
1:24.9	They're all way thinner than people are nowadays because no one went to the gym and took protein powder and creatine and all that stuff in the 80s. And they've all got shit coats on. And it just looks like doing Rochdale Away. Must have been so hard in 1984. Whereas now Rochdale Away is an absolute joy, isn't it? Well, in a nice, in a nice warm Patagonia coal. That's a very good point.
1:44.6	Yeah, no problem.
1:46.0	But the other thing is the equivalent you see Arctic explorers using like before the First World War.
1:54.2	Like Scott in the Antarctic and stuff.
1:56.1	His coat was shit.
1:57.5	Yes.
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