Peter Barber OBE FSA

Peter Barber OBE FSA

Peter Barber OBE FSA is a Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. He worked at the British Library for 40 years; beginning in the Department of Manuscripts, he participated in the cataloguing of the archives of the dukes of Marlborough and earls Spencer, from 1975 to 1987.  He spent the rest of his career in the Map Library, where he served as Head of Maps and Topography from 2001 to 2015. He mounted numerous exhibitions, edited and wrote popular and scholarly books and articles on the history of maps.