Archives and Collections
Building a C21st Photo Archive
Create a local or family history photo archive of the C21st that reflects the trivia of everyday life. Things that are often ignored because they seem so mundane and ordinary will be so valuable to future generations. Print and annotate your archives, carefully store away for someone to discover in the future.
Read MoreGreat Presentation visual tools to communicate complex ideas and narrative in history
See this good example of just using google and images with simple captions to narrate a history project and projection of the future. Here is the challenge can looking at your history through the images of say a dozen objects attract new interest, communicate effectively, make new connections integrate with maps and timelines and with these new and intriguing connections can you gain some new insights? well worth a look tools tipsan technques to adapt for you and your history project.
Read MoreSalvador Dali and Edward James collaborated on two artworks together in West Sussex?
Mae west’s Lips, A Sofa, A Lobster Telephone known as the Aphrodisiac, West Sussex Dali Edwards and life in an english Country House, you have got to admit it is intriguing? Oh yes Edward the Prince of Whales, the Wellcome Foundation and just for good measure Somerset Maughan…oh what a tangled web the people and personalities spin throughout our history…
Read MoreHow to derive material from the Census to Enrich Your Family History
Use the historical census data to derive new material that will enrich your family history and hopefully, reveal new, hitherto unseen, intriguing connections
Read MoreThe Scream Auction at Sothebys becomes an Artefact on YouTube Forever?
Munch sale captured on YouTube, art history and business in the making, digital transience what will happen to our archives, the equal and opposing forces of clamour for open data and archives and the need to profit to fund invention creativity and innovation. How can you secure your future archives and can we achieve a better balance, inspired by a 12 minute YouTube Moment…
Read MoreThe protection of ideas yields new important collections: Steve Jobs Patent artefacts @ Smithosonian
Steve Jobs honoured with Smithsonian Patent exhibition, what is the significance and resonance with you and your history project….what were the historic origins of intellectual property, copyright and licensing designs, so much of industry still relies on this protection what will happen going forward in an open world where everyone has access to the same knowledge, the start of a series of articles….
Read MoreEvesham World Map c1400
Fascinating Evesham Map c1400
Read MoreEngineering Archive Network Rail
The work of engineering giants can be explored at the Network Rail online archive
Read MoreMappa Mundi 1300 intact at Hereford Cathedral
An extraordinary and intriguing artefact the Hereford Mappa Mundi dating back to circa 1300 the largest Mappa Mundi still in existence, see video an links to further intriguing resources.
Read MoreTimeline IOS WW2 App Dan Snow with British pathe and Ballista
Dan Snow British pathe and an interactive app with 10,000 events interactive maps and video, an interesting attempt at curating a timeline for the whole of WWII. (For IOS iphone, Mac and Ipad
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