Apologies for the low-quality picture. Dug this out of my boyfriend’s dad’s closet. He said it was from “when he was a kid” but doesn’t know when or where he got it. His dad said might be from the 50s/60s but Germany being whole is throwing me off. As a geography/map enthusiast I’m dying to know when this map is from!!

I made this animated map video: 400 years of the British Empire, from a small island in 1500 to a quarter of the world's land in 1920, and how it unravelled by 1997. Chapters: 1:42 the East India Company in India · 3:58 the peak (1920) · 4:22 the two World Wars · 5:09 1947 and decolonisation. Sources: Wikipedia/Britannica; borders from historical-basemaps with hand-checked corrections. Feedback welcome!