Resources and toolkits for your family, social, local or special interest history projects. We help you to create, explore and share, your own unique and intriguing perspective on your history.
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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 history...[more]
Map your history, make new connections and gain new insights into your project, a free web service for family social and local historians, just a click away... [more]
Create your own Intriguing Connections for your family, local or special interest history project. Hassle free, up and running fast, so you can focus on what matters most , enjoying and progressing yo… [more]
Collection of History Toolkit Ideas and How to Use...
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 fu… [more]
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 imag… [more]
Low Life London Map Collection, a great resource available at British Library [more]
Use the historical census data to derive new material that will enrich your family history and hopefully, reveal new, hitherto unseen, intriguing connections [more]
War Horse Warrior Sir Jack Seely...
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Intriguing Features...
Highclere history highlights some intriguing connections after an enjoyable afternoon with Lady Carnarvon. Did the price of grain lead to a significant increase in Anglo-American Marriages amongst the… [more]
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 imag… [more]
Use the historical census data to derive new material that will enrich your family history and hopefully, reveal new, hitherto unseen, intriguing connections [more]
William Morgan's Map of London 1682 and 1676 were key social history documents, they reveal much more than where and how London was organised in the post Great Fire era and at the dawn of the Enlighte… [more]
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… [more]
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 a… [more]
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. [more]
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