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Maps and Mapping Resources for you and your history projects
BBC and the Beauty of Maps an intriguing digital perspective
Mapping Manchester a set of intriguing online resources to help you narrate and gain insight into your own family history... Related posts: Historic Maps of London Historic maps of London pain… [more]
The Tabula Peutingeriana is an intriguing ancient map, looking not unlike an underground map and serving a similar purpose but for the whole of the Roman Empire. Related posts: Dumnonia and Dumnonii … [more]
Maps,antique, modern and customised are a key device for examining and analysing the evidence, facts conundrums and brick walls you may encounter as you seek to research and explore the subject of you… [more]
HGS Open Day was a lively and engaging event, we were demonstrating this new and evolving project as an example of the tools, resources, techniques and approach we are taking to our workshops, project… [more]
Will the TNA JISC funded Mapping the Blitz Project help those of us that funded it with our hard earn't tax payers money we do hope so.... [more]
The linear nature of family trees can sometimes constrain us in the way we view the data that we have collected. A system of collecting, curating and geo-mapping data can reveal clusters and patterns … [more]
Booth's 17 year study and survey of Poverty in London produced a ground-breaking set of revelations some 120 years later using 6 archetypal streets what has changed, what has not and why is the subjec… [more]
Fabulous example of how to do it all better. An ancient text rediscovered, new human knowledge revealed and all the data and joy from the discovery share and open with a Creative Commons Licence acros… [more]
Has the digitization of historical data made it possible to engage maths in looking for new patterns? [more]
Roman Masterpiece Map the only one from this ancient period to survive,(transcribed as a medieval copy, referenced and featured as a copy in BBC History of Britain here you can access the full maps on… [more]
Dont miss an intriguing tour 8 episodes of 1 hour the first on early history is on I Player for 4 weeks. Michael Wood's wonder and passion for sharing this across various community based history proje… [more]
Map warping, layering historical and modern maps, open access at New York Public Library [more]
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]
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Old antique and historic maps are a core element of what we believe opens the door to a great fun and interactive way to research your history project. We are very intrigued by not only the historic maps but how to integrate them online with your historic research as we demonstrated at WDYTYA Live.
YouTube 1st Cut Demo Animation, enhanced resolution and audio coming shortly... Work in progress, updates coming soon!Intriguing Mapping will provide a resource and toolkit for all your history projects to help give you an insight on how old maps can be integrated for your project using standard PC/Mac technology. This is hands-on how-tos, to integrate historic mapping with current and intriguing connections to online maps and make the important connections to your research family, locations, themes of specific interest.
Resources include Google Earth, Google Maps and toolkits for integrating historic maps, place name and surname research so watch this space...-
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]