The City of London Cemetery is one of the largest municipal cemeteries in Europe and anyone may be buried there irrespective of City connections or religious beliefs.
Images of their general burial registers comprising 440,000 historic records dating from 24 June 1856 to 7 October 1955 are now available online.
The registers can be browsed by date but sadly there is no facility to search by name.
Ancestors from Berkshire or a one-place study there?
Take a look at the New Landscapes: Enclosure in Berkshire site to learn more about the process of enclosing the common fields of the county of Berkshire between 1738 and 1883.
Altogether approximately 160,000 acres, or approximately one-third of the total land area of the county, were enclosed by Parliamentary means between these dates. However, the process was not a steady one, and enclosure did not take place evenly across the county during that period.
New Landscapes provides access to historic manuscript maps and land award documents online.
Explore the site to find out more about enclosure and view digital images of the documents themselves. You can search by parish or search by map.
Ireland Illustrated 1680-1860 is a database of over 500 images of Ireland, with accompanying text, drawn from more than 50 manuscript and printed works, and highlighting several neglected or rarely accessible sources. It contains original short studies and aims to stimulate further research by drawing attention to scarcely known items in libraries in several countries, among them Denmark, Wales, England and France.
The database contains complete records for 505 digitized images, 125 authors and artists, and 53 individual travel accounts. Images are categorized, described and, where possible, their creators are identified and a biographical note included.
Click on the map image below to be taken to the interactive map showing images by location.
Copyright for each image resides with the source Library. Images are provided for the purpose of research, teaching, private study, and general interest. Written permission should be sought for any commercial use.
TuckDB is a free online database listing and showing antique postcards published by Raphael Tuck & Sons.
As at 16 May 2018, the database contained 135,235 postcards from many countries.
The images are of postcards that are over 100 years old and so are now in the public domain. You are free to use them as you see fit. Please see their FAQs for more information.
PopulationsPast, a new online interactive Atlas of Victorian and Edwardian Population, is now live!
Explore regional and local variations in a range of demographic and household indicators and how these changed between 1851 and 1911, zoom in to focus on particular areas, compare two maps side-by-side, and download the underlying data much of which has been calculated from individual level census data. More resources will be added over the coming months.
PopulationsPast was created by a team led by Dr Alice Reid of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop) at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, with help from colleagues at the Universities of Essex and Leicester.
Britain from Above was a four year project (2010 to 2014) aimed at conserving 95,000 of the oldest and most valuable photographs in the Aerofilms collection*, those dating from 1919 to 1953. Once conserved, the images were scanned into digital format and made available on the Britain from Above website for the public to see.
*The Aerofilms collection is a unique aerial photographic archive of international importance and includes 1.26 million negatives and more than 2000 photograph albums. Dating from 1919 to 2006, the total collection presents an unparalleled picture of the changing face of Britain in the 20th century. It includes the largest and most significant number of air photographs of Britain taken before 1939. The collection is varied and includes urban, suburban, rural, coastal and industrial scenes, providing important evidence for understanding and managing the built and natural environments. The collection was created by Aerofilms Ltd, a pioneering air survey company set up in 1919. In addition to Aerofilms’ own imagery, the firm expanded its holdings with the purchase of two smaller collections – AeroPictorial (1934-1960) and Airviews (1947-1991).
The Photochrom Print Collection, which forms part of the Library of Congress Print and Photographs Online Catalog (PPLOC), includes almost 6,000 views of Europe and the Middle East and 500 views of North America.
Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in Michigan.
The richly coloured images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs, usually 6.5 x 9 inches.
Like postcards, the photochroms feature subjects that appeal to travellers, including landscapes, architecture, street scenes, and daily life and culture. The prints were sold as souvenirs and often collected in albums or framed for display.
There are no known restrictions on publishing.