Posts by Amanda Moore INW
Family Home of Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 at Glover House in 1864
Thomas Blake Glover an intriguing influence on the Meiji Restoration. mining, ship-building and Mistubishi with his family home in Aberdeen.
Read MoreScotsmen Thomas Blake Glover, Mitsubishi and Kirin Beer
Outstanding Scotsmen and the Far East seem to go together in the 19th and early 20th centuries, being responsible for business and trading companies that are still thriving today. Thomas Blake Glover was one such man, arguably responsible for much of the success of the Meiji Restoration and the overthrow of the Shogun and forming the basis of the new and open Japan and it’s industrial success that continues to this day…
Read MoreAbout Us
Started this quest looking for better resources to take our own history projects forward, supplementing but not replacing our favourite family tree and research record systems, we couldnt find the right tools so we started researching and building some ourselves, here is how we hope to share the outcome of our labours, we aren’t historians and dont want to be, we are intrigued and fascinated aby the journey through history and the inspiring connections we have been finding…
Read MoreVisualising history and health 200 countries 200 years 120,000 data points
Visualising history before and after technology John Snow, Florence Nightingale and Professor Rosling’s intriguing connections….all shared the same belief in the power of visualisation. Examples of visualising history and how it may inform the research and development of a toolkit for family social and local historians or those with a special interest project or collection they are researching and studying.
Read MoreWhy Mapping Your History Matters?
What do maps do? Why are they important in history projects? How can you Map your history and how will this process help you make new connections and gain new insights…for your family, social, local or special interest history project.
Read MoreLife Events and Data Tags in the Family History Gedcom File format 5.5
Life events and data tags supported in the Gedcom file format determine what data you can extract from your family tree files, here are the standard tags established and supported in version 5.5 of the standard.This useful lists gives you an overview to the art of the possible for family tree data that might be creatively redeployed using different tools than just a timeline or hierarchical family tree…
Read MoreIntriguing Resources
Specialist resources for you and your history project, curated collections and archives, catalogued and focused on our historical themes, mapping resources, tools and techniques for family, social, local and special interest history projects. Collaborative tools and techniques to collect, curate, share,research and analyse your historical data and the ability to build your own rubic cube of historical data. Find out more and register for free email updates…
Read MoreArchiving Special Interest websites for future historical research
UK Web Archive an important project capturing history as it unfolds, preserving our history in a digital age, when much is never committed to paper but only to bytes…
Read MoreIntriguing History
A free resource for family, local, social, collection and special interest history projects, find our now how and why Intriguing History can help you Map History, Make Connections and Gain New Insights into Your Hisotry Project…
Read MoreFoundling Hospital a home for children…
The Foundling Hospital for children, in many ways, epitomises the change in thinking that came out of the period of Enlightenment. People such as John Locke, stirred the conscience of a society and resulted in a more liberal thinking where deeds and actions spoke loudest.
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