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New mapping websites for Liverpool history and beyond

If you follow me on Twitter you’ll already know that I’m currently (more…)

Liverpool History News Roundup

Having written about the bigger themes this week, I’ve had to skip past (more…)

Visible in Stone: women’s history and the built environment

English Heritage and London Metropolitan (more…)

95,000 Aerofilms aerial photos to go online

The Heritage Lottery Fund have recently agreed to grant £1.75 million to help put (more…)

Liverpool: a port of world significance

There are many sources of information we can use to investigate (more…)

National Archives UK Photo Finder

The National Archives have produced UK Photo Finder, (more…)

Maps for Local History Research (part 2: Old Maps)

I know, I know, you’ve been waiting and waiting for this! So without much further ado, I present a selection of old maps of interest to the avid and casual Liverpool historian.

In this, the second of (more…)

English Heritage Archives wants your feedback

English Heritage Archives is a new website which allows you to search the catalogues of the National (more…)

Web Sites for Local History

Over the past few weeks I’ve come across a handful of very interesting (more…)

Impacts of Capital of Culture

The University of Liverpool and John Moores University are assessing the impact of the 2008 Capital of Culture year in a project called Impacts 08. Research has gone on since 2005, and is now at the stage (more…)

Christmas is on its way!

Sorry if that worries you as much as it does me, but to cheer yourself up have a look at National Museums Liverpool’s advent calendar! Apparently it looks like the one they did last year, but as I missed (more…)

Liverpool Blogs, an exhibition, and more of interest from the LHS

I’d like to start this post with a kind of ‘metablog’. I would (more…)

Liverpool History Society Questions online

Some very interesting bits from the Net recently:

Liverpool History Society Questions is a blog I always watch – readers ask questions and (more often than not) Rob Ainsworth of Liverpool History Society (more…)

Conservation Areas Resources

I’ve recently mentioned English Heritage’s ‘Heritage At Risk’ campaign and project, so I thought I’d point any interested parties in the direction of some good resources to look at on the subject.

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Liverpool photographs on ViewFinder

I’ve known about this site for a while. OK, I admit it, I worked on the project (more…)

Site Redesign, and Archaeological Illustration

Just a quick word to let you know that Historic Liverpool is undergoing a complete cosmetic redesign, as the home page was getting a bit bogged down, and also I visited the  final show for the Oxford Brookes/Swindon (more…)

Access to Historic Liverpool data

In the spirit of free exchange of data, I’ve been looking into methods of sharing the data which I produce as part of the Historic Liverpool website. Although still a relatively low number, I will be producing (more…)

New Scottish Royal Commission database

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) have redesigned (more…)

Liverpool as blueprint for British culture capital

Although officially no longer the European Capital of Culture, Liverpool’s success in 2008 has led to it becoming the blueprint for an ongoing series of similar, British-based awards in the future. Culture (more…)