Our Partners at the Thames Festival Trust are advertising for a Heritage Project Manager. Could this be you? thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

Thames Festival Trust - Join our Team - Thames Festival Trust

All our current job and volunteer opportunities.

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#MappyMonday! Take a look at this survey of London, 1824-1826. This map shows both the growth of London and its contemporary administrative structure. Check it out on @layersoflondon.bsky.social , c/o MOLA and @britishlibrary.bsky.social www.layersoflondon.org/map/...

Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

"In Place"--- An Archive of Displaced Headstones in London Parks & Gardens

"In Place"  is an archival and research-led visual project documenting displaced headstones embedded within London’s contemporary public landscape. Before the mid-nineteenth century, many of London’s ...

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Presentation I gave for the Warsaw Spatial Humanities Seminar on Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social as an example of applied Deep Mapping is now live on Vimeo vimeo.com/1161792658

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This is a video recording of a lecture "Deep Mapping in Practice: ‘Layers of London’ and Participatory Experiential Mapping" delivered by Justing…

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This new blogpost from @ihr.bsky.social by Daisy Mansfield, a volunteer with our @vch-london.bsky.social project, currently working on the parish of St Anne #Soho looks at what we can learn abut the life of the area in the 18th century from the works of William Hogarth. 🗃️

Soho at Noon: Satire, Stratification, and Urbanisation in William Hogarth’s London - On History

Daisy Mansfield is volunteer with VCH London, focusing on artists in Soho. In this blog, she discusses what we can learn about Soho in the eighteenth-century from the work of the renowned artist and c...

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Enjoying this rock history collection on Iron Maiden's East London roots. 🤘https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/collections/roots-of-the-beast-iron-maiden-s-east-london

Roots of The Beast - Iron Maiden's East London

"So any time you're down the East End..." - '22 Acacia Avenue' An exploration of the locations threaded throughout Iron Maiden’s early history (1975–84), mapping the venues, streets and districts that...

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The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This same issue is also affecting our website. Sorry for the disruption.

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our website is currently down as Cloudflare, one of our hosting solutions currently experiencing some outages for reasons unknown. At t the moment, we're waiting on Cloudflare to stabilise and return the websites back to normal. @sas-news.bsky.social

This #TrailsTuesday take a tour through the historic Crystal Palace park over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #London #Trails #WalkingTrails #CrystalPalace #SouthLondon #Football #FootballHistory

The VCH is working in #London again, on a short history of #Soho! And there is now a donations page, if you'd like to help keep it going (or maybe even expand...): cafdonate.cafonline.org/28318#!/Dona...

Just 2 days before @cathamclarke.bsky.social speaks at the Westminster Archives on #London history in poetry. Last few tickets available! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/author-tal...

Author Talk: Re-discovering London through A History of England in 25 Poems

This is the history of England told in a new way: glimpsed through twenty-five remarkable poems written from the eighth century to today.

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This is just the kind of exciting approach to local history we're hoping to encourage as the re-launched VCH London. Want to know why London is a new thing for the VCH? It was Middlesex, Surrey and Essex until ever so recently... www.history.ac.uk/research/vic...

Middlesex and London

Learn about the Victoria County History of Middlesex and London.

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Thanks to the City of Westminster Archives & to Dr Francis Boorman for this invite. Francis leads VCH Middlesex & is developing a new VCH project to cover all #London. He'll be there on 1 October to share more. #history @vchlondon.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @layersoflondon.bsky.social

Catherine Clarke@cathamclarke.bsky.social · last yr.

Join me for this free #event at the City of Westminster Archives on Weds 1 October to discover new perspectives on the #history of #London. There'll also be an opportunity to learn about the work of @vchlondon.bsky.social in London. Info & booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/author-tal...

You can also see the map here www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

British History Online@bho.bsky.social · last yr.

Thread on the Agas map of #London. Download a high res version from BHO's github repository: github.com/ihr-digital/... #History #Maps

Running a @layersoflondon.bsky.social workshop with the wonderful "Lost and Found" heritage trainees from the Thames Festival Trust was a delight! So many great ideas and questions from a wonderful group of budding heritage practitioners, who shared the love of maps as a way to engage in heritage

Pictured: Billy Smart's Circus Chimpanzee's Christmas Party, 1952  Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Humap See more www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #MicroHistory #London #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #History  #Heritage

We've just been to visit the Clerks' Well at Clerkenwell on one of its rare open days. Thanks to @ianvisits.co.uk for the heads up. www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...

Clerks' Well

The Clerks' Well gives its name to the are of Clerkenwell.  The well, fed by a natural spring, was within the boundary of the Nunnery of St Mary, founded in the 12th century. The nunnery was dissolved...

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I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!

Unlocking your archives with GIS workshop

Join us on 12 June and find out how location can help unlock your archives and build powerful interactive experiences for the public to explore.

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Congratulations to everyone involved @thelondonjournal.bsky.social and here's to another 50 years! We're especially pleased to see our very own @justincolson.bsky.social 's piece on 'Layering London’s History: Digital Mapping and Spatial Technologies in Historical Research'!

The London Journal@thelondonjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

It's here. Our 50th anniversary special issue, on 'London's Past Today', edited by @aidannorrie.bsky.social and Robert Shoemaker: www.tandfonline.com/toc/yldn20/c.... 🧵

We are thrilled that @vchlondon.bsky.social are starting a new project on London as a whole city building on the excellent work going in in Middlesex.

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community@chppc.bsky.social · last yr.

Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇

An original copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence—lost for over 200 years—was discovered in Britain’s National Archives in 2010 by a grad student. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Humap Learn more www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #HaitanRevolution

A enquiry today led me to this delicious collection of Italian delis and restaurants. I may have gone down a rabbit hole of King Bomba, an anarchist owned deli in Old Compton Street. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

William Ansah Sesserakoo (1736-1770) was a Fante prince, the son of a political leader who sold enslaved Africans. His father sent him to Britain to be educated, but the ship's captain sold him into slavery in Barbados... www.layersoflondon.org/map/... @layersoflondon.bsky.social

For #MusicHallMonday a lesser known #musichall act. Stewart and Delhi, a fencing, vocal and dancing duo! PC c. 1912 A bit more about Brixton based Stewart (John Squires) and Delhi (Pansy Bannerjee) in my @layersoflondon.bsky.social collection www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...

You're making a map project. You find a perfect primary source. There isn't any location data. ARGH! In our latest blog we ask Humappers how they create story maps with imperfect spatial data. Take a look at humap.me/blog-community/blo... #GIS #HGIS #DigitalHumanities #StoryMaps #EdTech

Creating story maps with imperfect spatial data | Humap

Story maps need locations - but what if you don't have perfect spatial data? This blog explores the different solutions used by Humap clients

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It's #MapMonday! Here's a #map of #workhouses, #asylums, hospitals and dispensaries in #London, 1900. Take a closer look on @layersoflondon.bsky.social at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #VictorianHistory #BritishHistory #GIS #HGIS #MappyMonday

“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.” — #TerryPratchett Ever wondered what types of trees you can find in #London, or where the underground rivers are? @layersoflondon.bsky.social's got you covered: www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #WednesdayWisdom #Maps #GIS

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach

26th February 2025

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Thanks to @layersoflondon.bsky.social Plan of Northern Part of Parish of Lambeth, 1831, I realise the path to St Thomas' Hospital's entrance used to be called Amphitheatre Row, being next to Astley's Amphitheatre. Please can @gstt-nhs.bsky.social trust reintroduce that name for the path? @se1.news

Vesta Tilley, the male impersonator, was one of the most famous and successful music hall performers of the early twentieth century. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social n #Humap See more www.layersoflondon.org/map/...