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Case Study: Mapping the Wilkinson Postcards with volunteers

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Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre have kindly shared a new case study with us. It will be of interest to anyone working with volunteers remotely and/or with online resources, particularly maps.

In 2020-21 a group of 4 volunteers worked from home during the lockdowns to pinpoint a collection of historic postcards to the Know Your Place historic maps website. By the end of the project, 324 historic postcards were geotagged to their relevant locations and added to the online maps. The work is a double first for Wiltshire Council’s History Centre – the first of its photographic collections to be added to the Wiltshire section of the Know Your Place (KYP) website and its first volunteer project to be completed remotely and online.

You can read the full report below. Thank you to Max Parkin (Archivist) and Julie Davis (County Local Studies Librarian) for sharing their work with CILIP LSG.

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Mapping the Town: 50 Years of the British Historic Towns Atlas

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Plan of Oxford from circa 1900, Harmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904). Via Wikicommons.

It is 50 years since the publication of the first volume of the British Historic Towns Atlas project.

In celebration, the Historic Towns Trust (HTT) and the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education are holding a day-school in Oxford which will be of interest to many local studies librarians and archivists.

Title: Mapping the Town: 50 Years of the British Historic Towns Atlas

Date: Saturday October 12th

There will be talks on the town atlases of Oxford, York and Winchester, as well as the history of the project.

Further details and programme: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/mapping-the-town-50-years-of-the-british-historic-towns-atlas?code=O19P265LHJ