Layers of London

#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

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"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 ...

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...

#WarSHum12 This is a video recording of a lecture "Deep Mapping in Practice: ‘Layers of London’ and Participatory Experiential Mapping" delivered by Justing…

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

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...

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. 🗃️

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...

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

All information on the image is available via the web link.

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.

This #TrailsTuesday take a tour through the historic Crystal Palace park over on @layersoflondon.bsky.social

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#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...

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.

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...

Middlesex and London Learn about the Victoria County History of Middlesex and London.

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...

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

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

Presenting Layers of London

Justin Colson looking at George's work

Justin Colson talking to Abondance

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

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#MicroHistory #London #BritishHistory #EnglishHistory #History  #Heritage

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...

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/...

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.

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!

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'!

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.

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

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#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...

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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/...

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

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

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

More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach 26th February 2025

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

Westminster Bridge Road is shown horizontally with the Thames to the left. Above WBR is Belvedere Road and, opposite, below is Amphitheatre Row to the right of St Thomas' Hospital Garden where the path to the hospital entrance lies.

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

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CHPPC Training Minis

3. There is a BRAND NEW section of our training archive called ‘training minis’: videos that are under 10 minutes long to provide training on v specific topics. There are 2 videos ATM from @ruthslatter.bsky.social on #knowledgeexchange in principle & practice www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/chp...