Why 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 MoreJohn Speed Maps Online
The fascinating maps of John Speed have been beautifully digitized by Occidental College Library Los Angeles. Now having looked at the maps of Ralph Agas, we ask was there a connection between the two?
Read MoreFree Newspaper Archives
Contemporary newspaper articles of historic events are an absolutely riveting read and give a different perspective to the lives and times of our ancestors.
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 MoreWomen and Suffrage
Women’s suffrage affected generation after generation of women. It took thirty years from the formation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society to the Representation of the People Act in 1928 for all women to have an equal right to vote in the UK
Read MoreAgas Map of London, Online and Interactive
Historical maps are beautiful works of art and to see The Agas map of London on line and interactive, thanks to the work of the University of Victoria Canada with the permission of the London Metropolitan archive, is a real bonus to historians and an excellent piece of work.
Read MoreFoundling Hospital Collection
Possibly the most poignant collection in London, the Foundling Hospital Collection…
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