Location: Bristol, England
Website:maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace/
Know Your Place provides access to a variety of historic maps that cover the administrative area of the City of Bristol. The majority of the maps have been scanned from original archives held at Bristol Record Office (BRO). Because these are scans taken from the original archives you will see damage to the maps in some places including tears and stains and even some areas where people have tried to repair the map. You will also notice variations in the colour of the maps because they have been digitally stitched together from individual sheets. We hope this adds to the historic character of the website and doesn’t detract from your enjoyment in browsing these maps.
The scanned images have been overlain on Modern Ordnance Survey Mastermap digital mapping. In many cases the historic maps do not overlay exactly because of the way in which the original surveys were undertaken It is a tribute to the nineteenth century surveyors that their maps can be fitted with modern mapping at all.
It is also interesting to note the variety in the maps particularly the tithe maps which were surveyed by different surveyors with slightly different mapping conventions, the most extreme of which is the Brislington Tithe Map whichnwas drawn with south towards the top of the map.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
Interference Archive
Location:
Website:interferencearchive.org
Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in public exhibitions, a study and social center, talks, screenings, publications, workshops, and an online presence.
The archive consists of many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, photographs, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials.
Through our programming, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions.
As an archive from below, we are a collectively run space that is people powered, with open stacks and accessibility for all. We work in collaboration with like-minded projects, and encourage critical as well as creative engagement with our own histories and current struggles. The archive is all-volunteer and relies on the help of many people. We currently organize the labor of running the project into working groups: Administration, Cataloging, Born Digital, Education, Fundrraising, and an evolving series of ad-hoc curatoral groups for each exhibition.
We welcome you to get involved.
Website:interferencearchive.org
Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in public exhibitions, a study and social center, talks, screenings, publications, workshops, and an online presence.
The archive consists of many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, photographs, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials.
Through our programming, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions.
As an archive from below, we are a collectively run space that is people powered, with open stacks and accessibility for all. We work in collaboration with like-minded projects, and encourage critical as well as creative engagement with our own histories and current struggles. The archive is all-volunteer and relies on the help of many people. We currently organize the labor of running the project into working groups: Administration, Cataloging, Born Digital, Education, Fundrraising, and an evolving series of ad-hoc curatoral groups for each exhibition.
We welcome you to get involved.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Location: N/A
Website: hurricanearchive.org
Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American History and other partners, organized this project.
Generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2005-2008), the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank contributes to the ongoing effort by historians and archivists to preserve the record of these storms by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts. We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.
This project builds on prior work by George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and other partners such as the Library of Congress and the Red Cross, to collect and preserve history online, especially through the ECHO project and the September 11 Digital Archive. It is part of a growing practice of using the Internet to preserve the past through “digital memory banks.”
For those interested in reading more about designing this project, or those considering launching a digital collecting projects, see: "Why Collecting History Online in Web 1.5, by Sheila Brennan and T. Mills Kelly.
Website: hurricanearchive.org
Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American History and other partners, organized this project.
Generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2005-2008), the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank contributes to the ongoing effort by historians and archivists to preserve the record of these storms by collecting first-hand accounts, on-scene images, blog postings, and podcasts. We hope to foster some positive legacies by allowing the people affected by these storms to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.
This project builds on prior work by George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and other partners such as the Library of Congress and the Red Cross, to collect and preserve history online, especially through the ECHO project and the September 11 Digital Archive. It is part of a growing practice of using the Internet to preserve the past through “digital memory banks.”
For those interested in reading more about designing this project, or those considering launching a digital collecting projects, see: "Why Collecting History Online in Web 1.5, by Sheila Brennan and T. Mills Kelly.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Laws That Shaped L.A.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/laws-that-shaped-la/
For more than a year now, the Laws That Shaped L.A. column has been chronicling a running list of laws that a range of experts say have made a significant impact on the people and places of this region -- and oftentimes, far beyond.
As regular readers of the column know, the columns are automatically archived. That automatic archive appears chronologically by the date each column was published.
For readers who are interested in more subject-matter groupings, we present just such an index. Please note that many columns are cross-listed and appear in multiple subject sections.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT:
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
Sprawl: What Happens When You Legislate Against Vibrant Streets
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Survey Says: How Thomas Jefferson Made the Streets of L.A.
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
Teddy Roosevelt's Signature Let Los Angeles Grow
How The Westside Became So Crowded
The End of the Road: The Idea That Took A Toll on How We Travel
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
My Way or the Highway: Why Mega-Roads Rule The City
The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs
How CEQA Allows Anyone to Thwart Development
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
DESIGN:
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
Why Automobiles Look The Way They Do
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
Street Food is Not A Crime
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
ECOLOGY:
How Los Angeles Began to Put its Soggy Days Behind
Don't Bury Your Head in the Sand: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
When It Comes To Water, Why L.a. is Better Off Than Texas
When the Eco Zeitgeist Changed
Power Play: California, Electricity and Climate Change
How Yellowstone Led to Los Angeles
Teddy Roosevelt's Signature Let Los Angeles Grow
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
How CEQA Allows Anyone to Thwart Development
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
ECONOMY:
Proposition 13: The Sacred Cow That Won't GO Away
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs
Street Food is Not A Crime
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
ELECTIONS:
Dr. Strangevote, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ballot Initiatives
ENERGY:
Power Play: California, Electricity and Climate Change
EQUAL RIGHTS:
Title IX: Why So Many More Women and Girls Play and Win at Sports
When California Decided Who Could Have Kids and Who Could Not
How World War II Era Internment Camps Changed Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and America
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
Skid Row's Toilet Woes: Where Going to the Bathroom is Illegal
FOOD:
Street Food is Not A Crime
When This Law Ended, What Happened to Mexican Immigration?
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
FREE SPEECH:
Los Angeles and the First Amendment
Why is Civic Activism and Journalism Legal and Who was Jerry Schneiderman?
HOMELESSSNESS:
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
Skid Row's Toilet Woes: Where Going to the Bathroom is Illegal
IMMIGRATION & ETHNICITY:
When This Law Ended, What Happened to Mexican Immigration?
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
The Immigration Law That Changed Postwar Chinatown
Street Food is Not A Crime
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
How World War II Era Internment Camps Changed Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and America
The Immigration Law That Shaped Postwar Chinatown
LABOR:
When This Law Ended, What Happened to Mexican Immigration?
PUBLIC HEALTH:
How Los Angeles Began to Put its Soggy Days Behind
Why Automobiles Look The Way They Do
Street Food is Not A Crime
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Don't Bury Your Head in the Ground: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
When the Eco Zeitgeist Changed
Behind California's Ban on Assault Weapons
When California Decided Who Could Have Kids and Who Could Not
When The Olympics and L.A. Youth Sports Changed Forever
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
PUBLIC SAFETY:
Why Los Angeles Isn't A Beach Town
Behind California's Ban on Assault Weapons
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
Skid Row's Toilet Woes: Where Going to the Bathroom is Illegal
SPORTS:
When The Olympics and L.A. Youth Sports Changed Forever
Title IX: Why So Many More Women and Girls Play and Win at Sports
TAXES:
Proposition 13: The Sacred Cow That Won't Go Away
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
TRANSPORTATION:
My Way or the Highway: Why Mega-Roads Rule The City
Why Automobiles Look The Way They Do
Free The Jitney! When Buses, Bicycles, Light Rail and Feet Aren't Enough
The End of the Road: The Idea That Took A Toll on How We Travel
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
How The Westside Became So Crowded
Survey Says: How Thomas Jefferson Made the Streets of LA
Bland 1976 Downtown skyline. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library
URBAN PLANNING
Why Los Angeles Isn't A Beach Town
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
The Birth and Growth of City Planning
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
Does Zoning Matter in Los Angeles?
Sprawl: What Happens When You Legislate Against Vibrant Streets
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Survey Says: How Thomas Jefferson Made the Streets of LA
How Yellowstone Led to Los Angeles
How The Westside Became So Crowded
The End of the Road: The Idea That Took A Toll on How We Travel
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
Proposition 13: The Sacred Cow That Won't Go Away
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
My Way or the Highway: Why Mega-Roads Rule The City
The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs
Free The Jitney! When Buses, Bicycles, Light Rail and Feet Aren't Enough
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
How CEQA Allows Anyone to Thwart Development
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
Channelizing the L.A. River. Image courtesy USC Digital Archives
WATER
Why Los Angeles Isn't a Beach Town
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Don't Bury Your Head in the Ground: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
When the Eco Zeitgeist Changed
Teddy Roosevelt's Signature Let Los Angeles Grow
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
When It Comes To Water, Why L.A. is Better Off Than Texas
Website: www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/laws-that-shaped-la/
For more than a year now, the Laws That Shaped L.A. column has been chronicling a running list of laws that a range of experts say have made a significant impact on the people and places of this region -- and oftentimes, far beyond.
As regular readers of the column know, the columns are automatically archived. That automatic archive appears chronologically by the date each column was published.
For readers who are interested in more subject-matter groupings, we present just such an index. Please note that many columns are cross-listed and appear in multiple subject sections.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT:
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
Sprawl: What Happens When You Legislate Against Vibrant Streets
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Survey Says: How Thomas Jefferson Made the Streets of L.A.
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
Teddy Roosevelt's Signature Let Los Angeles Grow
How The Westside Became So Crowded
The End of the Road: The Idea That Took A Toll on How We Travel
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
My Way or the Highway: Why Mega-Roads Rule The City
The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs
How CEQA Allows Anyone to Thwart Development
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
DESIGN:
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
Why Automobiles Look The Way They Do
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
Street Food is Not A Crime
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
ECOLOGY:
How Los Angeles Began to Put its Soggy Days Behind
Don't Bury Your Head in the Sand: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
When It Comes To Water, Why L.a. is Better Off Than Texas
When the Eco Zeitgeist Changed
Power Play: California, Electricity and Climate Change
How Yellowstone Led to Los Angeles
Teddy Roosevelt's Signature Let Los Angeles Grow
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
How CEQA Allows Anyone to Thwart Development
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
ECONOMY:
Proposition 13: The Sacred Cow That Won't GO Away
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs
Street Food is Not A Crime
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
ELECTIONS:
Dr. Strangevote, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ballot Initiatives
ENERGY:
Power Play: California, Electricity and Climate Change
EQUAL RIGHTS:
Title IX: Why So Many More Women and Girls Play and Win at Sports
When California Decided Who Could Have Kids and Who Could Not
How World War II Era Internment Camps Changed Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and America
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
Skid Row's Toilet Woes: Where Going to the Bathroom is Illegal
FOOD:
Street Food is Not A Crime
When This Law Ended, What Happened to Mexican Immigration?
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
FREE SPEECH:
Los Angeles and the First Amendment
Why is Civic Activism and Journalism Legal and Who was Jerry Schneiderman?
HOMELESSSNESS:
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
Skid Row's Toilet Woes: Where Going to the Bathroom is Illegal
IMMIGRATION & ETHNICITY:
When This Law Ended, What Happened to Mexican Immigration?
The Under-Appreciated 1990 Immigration Law That Changed Koreatown
The Immigration Law That Changed Postwar Chinatown
Street Food is Not A Crime
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
How World War II Era Internment Camps Changed Little Tokyo, Los Angeles and America
The Immigration Law That Shaped Postwar Chinatown
LABOR:
When This Law Ended, What Happened to Mexican Immigration?
PUBLIC HEALTH:
How Los Angeles Began to Put its Soggy Days Behind
Why Automobiles Look The Way They Do
Street Food is Not A Crime
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Don't Bury Your Head in the Ground: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
When the Eco Zeitgeist Changed
Behind California's Ban on Assault Weapons
When California Decided Who Could Have Kids and Who Could Not
When The Olympics and L.A. Youth Sports Changed Forever
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
PUBLIC SAFETY:
Why Los Angeles Isn't A Beach Town
Behind California's Ban on Assault Weapons
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
Skid Row's Toilet Woes: Where Going to the Bathroom is Illegal
SPORTS:
When The Olympics and L.A. Youth Sports Changed Forever
Title IX: Why So Many More Women and Girls Play and Win at Sports
TAXES:
Proposition 13: The Sacred Cow That Won't Go Away
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
TRANSPORTATION:
My Way or the Highway: Why Mega-Roads Rule The City
Why Automobiles Look The Way They Do
Free The Jitney! When Buses, Bicycles, Light Rail and Feet Aren't Enough
The End of the Road: The Idea That Took A Toll on How We Travel
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
How The Westside Became So Crowded
Survey Says: How Thomas Jefferson Made the Streets of LA
Bland 1976 Downtown skyline. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library
URBAN PLANNING
Why Los Angeles Isn't A Beach Town
The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work
The Birth and Growth of City Planning
Why is the Los Angeles Skyline So Bland?
Does Zoning Matter in Los Angeles?
Sprawl: What Happens When You Legislate Against Vibrant Streets
How Bunker Hill Lost Its Victorians
How Downtown L.A. Became a Place to Live (Without Parking)
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Survey Says: How Thomas Jefferson Made the Streets of LA
How Yellowstone Led to Los Angeles
How The Westside Became So Crowded
The End of the Road: The Idea That Took A Toll on How We Travel
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
Proposition 13: The Sacred Cow That Won't Go Away
Prop 13's Hidden Effects on the Built Environment
How Rancho Owners Lost Their Land and Why That Matters Today
My Way or the Highway: Why Mega-Roads Rule The City
The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs
Free The Jitney! When Buses, Bicycles, Light Rail and Feet Aren't Enough
How Prop 84 Helped the Homeless and Added Affordable Housing
How CEQA Allows Anyone to Thwart Development
In Defense of CEQA, the 'Bill of Rights' for Environmental Democracy
Channelizing the L.A. River. Image courtesy USC Digital Archives
WATER
Why Los Angeles Isn't a Beach Town
The Law That Killed The L.A. River
Don't Bury Your Head in the Ground: Why The Clean Water Act Matters
Why California's Beaches are Open to Everyone
When the Eco Zeitgeist Changed
Teddy Roosevelt's Signature Let Los Angeles Grow
Why Buildings Turn Their Backs on the L.A. River
When It Comes To Water, Why L.A. is Better Off Than Texas
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