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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Exploring Britain's History From Above


You tin laissez passer the sack at i time explore over 80,000 historical aerial photographs of UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland dating from 1945-2009. Cambridge University’s Collection of Aerial Photographs contains thousands of aerial photographs captured yesteryear the University’s Air Photography Unit since the terminate of World War II. There are close one-half a 1000000 aerial photos inward the collection. 80,000 of them accept at i time been digitized too tin laissez passer the sack endure industrial plant life too viewed on the Cambridge Air Photos website.

You tin laissez passer the sack search too browse the aerial photos of UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland yesteryear place too yesteryear category. If you lot desire to search the collection yesteryear place too then you lot tin laissez passer the sack purpose the Cambridge Air Photos interactive map. When zoomed out the map exclusively shows a alternative of the available aerial photographs. You involve to zoom inward on the map earlier all the available photos volition look on the map.


Some of the best images inward the collection accept been organized into featured collections, such equally Ancient Britain, Castles too Coasts. Around 1,500 of the aerial photos are too available equally high resolution zooming images. These images are too existence made available using International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) technology, thence you lot tin laissez passer the sack explore them inward item on whatever IIIF viewer.