Historypin - a new way to share history
03/06/2010
We Are What We Do, the social movement that launched the Anya Hindmarch ‘I’m Not A Plastic Bag’, is back with its latest creation: a collaboration with Google called Historypin - a digital time machine that provides a new way for the world to see and share history.
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Dunkirk: your stories wanted!
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1940; a full year of the blitz, rationing, evacuees and courageous acts. The ‘Yesterday’ channel celebrates the 70th anniversary of this momentous year with a season of programmes around ‘The Spirit of 1940’. Following the air of the first segment ‘Ration Book Britain’ in March, Yesterday will this month show ‘Dunkirk: The Forgotten Heroes’. It tells the unknown story of the thousands of heroic men left behind in the Dunkirk evacuation.
The maps that helped to defeat Hitler
The maps that helped to save Britain from war-time starvation can now be viewed in detail online, with the launch of a new-look website charting how the country has changed in the past 250-plus years.
Were YOU working in West London during the war?
HISTORYtalk, a west London community history group, has launched a new project as part of the nationwide programme ‘Britain at Work 1945-1995’. They plan to interview the people who worked in west London in the years after World War II, making it the hub of manufacturing industry.
Museum discovers message in a bottle after a century
A young stonemason found more than he bargained for when he opened up a chimney at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, as part of the current transformation
How talking about my interests changed my life
Finding an audience for talks on his interests and pursuits has proved a life-changing experience for MT reader Brian Jones. And you, he says, could find your life changed too.
Access our heritage at the click of a button
Forget dusty archive rooms and dark library basements, English Heritage is bringing history bang up to date and direct to homes with the launch of "EHTV" – a new online service, offering an alternative way to watch and relive history at a click of a mouse.
Some fascinating facts from history...
It was a sign of wealth that a man could bring home the bacon and this was hung in the fireplace to cure. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat...
Recognition at last for women Spitfire pilots
The handful of women survivors who flew Spitfires as part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during the Second World War are now expected to be honoured with a special badge
Did you know that the Germans had their own Dunkirk?
"Few people will have heard of the crucial Battle for the Scheldt in 1944, which is not surprising because there is very little mention made of it. Perhaps because it was the scene of much to be ashamed of: mistakes made by prima donna Generals which cost many lives, young men fighting with inadequate weapons, and hundreds dying in the mud of Flanders' Polder fields, flooded by the retreating Germans opening the sluice gates."
MT reader Jim Woodward is fighting to make sure that the memory of thousands of young lives in a campaign that went badly wrong is not lost in this country.
E-museum launched to celebrate wildlife film memories and milestones.
David Attenborough’s romp with wild gorillas in the mountains of Rwanda has become one of television’s most memorable moments - now the real story about the sequence’s shaky beginnings is among the scores of surprising anecdotes that have just become available online following the launch by the Bristol-based charity of WildFilmHistory – an e-museum of wildlife film memories and milestones.
My Grandfather's Great War
"Ninety years ago my grandfather wrote a very personal and graphic account of his time on the Somme in the Great War..." A remarkable World War I diary has just been published by the soldier's grandson. Bringing the diary to the public has proved an emotional journey for TV and theatre actor Cameron Stewart.
Putting England's glorious heritage in the frame
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It started in October 1999, and now, 13,000 rolls of film later a totally unique snapshot of England’s listed buildings has been preserved for future generations in "Images of England" - an ambitious English Heritage project to create one of the UK’s largest on-line image libraries.
150 years on - not just a postcode lottery
On August 31st the Royal Mail celebrated the 150th anniversary of UK postcodes in the UK today - a service that most of us take for granted - but how often do we reflect on how invaluable the humble postcode has been to ensure mail is delivered accurately and promptly?
Britain's oldest veteran inspires younger generation
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Henry Allingham, aged 110, Britain's oldest surviving veteran of the First World War has brought to schoolchildren in Tamworth something that no history book could ever deliver: his own living memory.
