Layers of London wants to map the history of London from the fourth dimension of the Romans correct through to the modern day. That is a lot of history. So it needs your help.
Layers of London is already working amongst a publish of partners, including the British Library, Historic England, The National Archives, London Metropolitan Archives together with the Museum of London Archaeology. However it volition besides live on crowd-sourcing content. Anyone who has an interesting historical storey to nation virtually a house inwards London tin pivot their storey to the Layers of London map.
Layers of London is for at i time inwards a beta stage of testing. Currently when you lot browse Layers of London you lot tin thought ii historical maps of London on the map, the Morgan map (1682) together with Roque map (1746). It is besides possible to thought some historical aerial photos of London captured past times the RAF.
The historical notes are shown on the map using map markers. These historical notes tin live on filtered inwards ii ways. You tin purpose the timeline to explore London's history past times appointment range. You tin besides pick out to thought from a publish of curated together with world themed 'collections'. These collections permit you lot to browse London's history past times theme, dependent champaign affair or from a detail establishment or organization.
The timeline together with themed 'collections' on Layers of London reminds me a lilliputian of History Pin. This crowd-sourced map of historical photos, videos, well recordings together with memories has proved hugely successful unopen to the world. If Layers of London tin besides tap into this demand for local together with personal history together with then it could besides croak a successful portal of crowd-sourced history.
