The 1848 Revolution in France, often known as the February Revolution, was followed by a number of other revolutionary uprisings across Europe. In Austria the authoritarian government was determined to quell the spread of the liberal ideas associated with republicanism and stop the rise of nationalist movements within its large Empire. The Austrian Empire had already restricted freedom of the
Showing posts with label history maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history maps. Show all posts
Friday 28 September 2018
Mapping the 1848 Vienna Revolution
The 1848 Revolution in France, often known as the February Revolution, was followed by a number of other revolutionary uprisings across Europe. In Austria the authoritarian government was determined to quell the spread of the liberal ideas associated with republicanism and stop the rise of nationalist movements within its large Empire. The Austrian Empire had already restricted freedom of the
Friday 14 September 2018
The World History Map
The WorldMap is an open source mapping platform from Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis. Users of WorldMap can quickly create a map using their own data layers or using the hundreds of data layers already added to the WorldMap.
WorldMap has 23,000 registered users who have created over 6,000 maps with 29,000 data layers. You can explore some of these by following the links in the
The Interactive Map of Jewish Places
Jewish Places is a new interactive map designed to provide detailed information about locations which have been important to Jewish life in Germany. The new Jewish Places website aims to provide a tool which can help individuals document and explore Jewish life in Germany and provide a guide to local Jewish history in towns and cities across the country.
The Jewish Places interactive map
Thursday 6 September 2018
Catalan Through the Ages
The Historical Comparison of the Territory tool allows you to visualize aerial images of Catalan from 1945 until today. The map allows you to select any location and compare aerial images of the area from different years side-by-side. The tool even allows you to create an animated GIF showing how a chosen area has changed over the decades.
The map includes a search facility so you can search
Monday 3 September 2018
The Interactive Map of Tudor England
A new interactive map allows you to explore London as it looked in the time of Henry VIII. The Layers of London project has added a Tudor Map overlay which shows a map of London in the year 1520 (select the map from the 'Layer tools' menu).
The Layers of London Tudor map features lots of locations which now no longer exist. The Fleet River, which gave its name to Fleet Street, and which is now
Monday 27 August 2018
Monday's Mappa Mundi
Henricus Martellus Germanus was a German geographer and cartographer who lived and worked in Florence from 1480 to 1496. In around 1490 Martellus created a world map. The Martellus world map is said to have been an inspiration for the Waldseemüller map of 1507.
The only surviving copy of the Martellus Map was found in the 1960's and donated to Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Mapping the Native Communities of California
When the Spanish invaded western California in AD 1769, there were more than 150,000 native people already living in the region. The San Francisco Bay Area was home to around 15,000 people, living in more than 40 different communities and speaking many different languages. The whole purpose of the Spanish missions in California was to convert the indigenous people to Christianity and to steal
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Exploring Ancient Rome
Heritage Daily has created an interactive map providing information on some of ancient Rome's most iconic buildings. The map shows the footprints of some of ancient Rome's surviving buildings. Buildings which you can still visit today.
Heritage Daily's Ancient Rome map shows the location of major ancient Roman roads and some of the city's surviving ancient monuments. These ancient buildings are
Monday 20 August 2018
Germany's Plans to Invade Britain
Germany's invasion map of Newcastle - Library of Congress
The German plan for invading Britain in World War II was code-named Operation Sea Lion. Although both Germany and Britain believed that an invasion was unlikely to succeed it didn't stop both sides from planning for a German invasion of Britain. In Germany the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Nazi German Supreme Command of the Armed Forces)
Friday 17 August 2018
The Streetcars of San Francisco
The wonderful Where the Streetcars Used to Go now includes an interactive map of the historical streetcar network in the East Bay. Where the Streetcars Used to go is a fascinating map visualizing the San Francisco streetcar transit network as it existed in 1941 & 1956 and as it exists today. It now includes the tram lines that were once operated by the Key System company in Berkeley and Oakland
Thursday 16 August 2018
Making Vintage Panoramic Maps
The Buffalo News has created a nice interactive map from an 1880 panoramic map of Buffalo, created by E.H. Hutchinson. The Buffalo News interactive version of the map allows you to zoom-in and explore this vintage oblique view of the city in close detail.
The map includes a number of map markers which provide information about some of the landmarks shown on the map and some historical photos of
Monday 6 August 2018
The Street Names of Paris
Le Figaro has been researching the history of street names in Paris. In particular it has examined how many Parisian roads were named for people and which historical periods those people are from. It then colored those roads on a map of Paris to show which historical period is most commemorated in Paris' roads.
In What Paris Street Names Reveal the newspaper says that a total of 2,500 streets
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Melbourne in 1945
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the largest sports stadium in Australia and the tenth largest in the world. The MCG hasn't always been used for sports. During World War II the stadium was occupied in turn by the United States Army Air Forces, the Royal Australian Air Force and the United States Marine Corps. Now you can view the stadium as it looked at the end of World War II on Melbourne 1945.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
The Native People of Australia
Back in 2015 Native-Land started mapping the territories and languages of the indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada. Native-Land now also shows the territories and languages of the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand.
The map consists of two main layers, one showing the 'territory' of indigenous peoples and the other showing the geographical spread of indigenous
Monday 30 July 2018
The World According to Strabo
The title 'Father of Geography' could be given to the Greek philosopher, historian and geographer Strabo. Strabo lived during the transitional period when the Roman Republic developed into the Roman Empire. He is most well known for his 'Geographica', an historical and descriptive account of the people and places living in the different regions of the western world, during his era.
Strabo
