Prototype of the Oxford Cartographers World History Timeline Map?

I was in New Lanark in Scotland a few weeks ago, and took many photos. Robert Owen had a school for his workers’ children, and in the beautiful schoolhouse hung these historical maps. I took a bunch of pictures of the maps, and it was only upon returning home to my study that I realized that they bore a striking similarity to the Oxford Cartographers World History Timeline Map that I have hanging on my office wall. This one is organized by territory at the top, to track the various imperial formations of the world at the time. I wonder if this is where the original idea came from?

Day trip to New Lanark in Scotland, a UNESCO world heritage site

I was so excited to finally visit New Lanark, the home of Robert Owen’s utopian socialist experiments in the early 19th century. This place could be seen as the birthplace of every social movement to improve the working conditions of industrial workers in the last 200 years.

Since it was early April, the place was very empty and we spent a few hours wandering around the exhibits and really reading everything. It was the perfect day trip from Glasgow.