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"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 ...

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

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...

"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...

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

Learn about the Victoria County History of Middlesex and London.

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...

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.

The London Italian Catering Community in the 1930's appear to have been predominantly drawn to either a well established "Little Italy" such as Clerkenwell, created in the late 19th Century, or to Soh...

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

26th February 2025

Lara Short, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant at the IHR Library, reflects on the experiences and opportunities the role has brought.

Music Hall Brixton and beyond

The parish of St George Hanover Square encompasses the wealthy neighbourhoods of Mayfair, Belgravia and Pimlico – of which large areas were owned by the Grosvenor Estate and developed by master builde...

A Haitian Queen in Georgian Britain The Haitian Revolution remains, without doubt, one of the most important events in world history. Though the triumphant history of Haiti, which became the first ind...