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The Olympic Torch returns to Reading
At 6.14pm today, the Olympic Torch will arrive in Reading. This will be the second time the famous flame has passed through as the town was also a stop during the 1948 Torch Relay. This marks Reading...
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An Olympic Torch Repeat
In a previous post we wrote about the Olympic Torch passing through Reading in 1948. Last week it returned as part of the 2012 relay, and volunteers at Reading Museum took this amazing photo of it...
View ArticleInspired by Archivists
I had the great honor of spending a day at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in San Diego on August 9, 2012. They had invited me to give one of the opening keynotes (the audio and...
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10,000 photos shared by the National Collection of Aerial Photography
We are very excited to announce that the National Collection of Aerial Photography has joined Historypin, sharing 10,000 photos from their fantastic collections. With this impressive contribution they...
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The Historic New Orleans Photo Collection
Central Fire Station, 300 Block Decatur Street, 1928-1932. Historypin recently helped to Street View hundreds of photos belonging to the Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum, research center, and...
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Snap Shots of Europe from the 1890s
For the past few months St John’s College Library, Cambridge has been busy pinning a great collection of photos taken by the Victorian polymath Samuel Butler. Butler lived in South England but...
View ArticleHelp us improve Historypin for cultural heritage organisations
Are you a library, archive, museum or historical organisation sharing your collections on Historypin? We are inviting institutions sharing content on Historypin to complete a short survey to help us...
View ArticleNick talks Historypin at Columbia University
Last week Nick was in the US doing a series of talks. Here you can see him at Columbia University talking about ciitizen historians, the future of digital mapping and grannies drinking tea. The post...
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Historypinner in Residence: The End
This week marks the end of my time spent working with English Heritage. These past 6 months have flown by, but over that time I have been able to browse through the largest photographic archive in the...
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Launching the US National Archives' Remembering WWI app
Thematic collections within the Remembering WWI app. April 2017 marks the 100-year anniversary of the United States entering WWI. To commemorate this anniversary, the US National Archives (NARA) is...
View ArticleHistorypin Workshop in Orange County, CA
The Orange County Heritage Coordinating Council is running a hands-on digital history workshop, for FREE, to the Orange County heritage community. Learn more about how to use Historypin, upload content...
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A Photo History of Life in Nature
Nature Conservancy interns recreate a pose struck by the the organizations’ founders in 1951 During its 60 years, the Nature Conservancy has collected lots of photos of the natural world and the...
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Ghost Signs from Louisville, USA to London, UK
The Histoypin team is always excited to see the myriad of different ways people and archives are using the site and app to capture, preserve and resurrect historical moments in their neighbourhoods....
View ArticleHistorypin volunteers discover rare photo of the Reading FC squad in 1966
As part of Pinning Reading’s History, two Reading locals, Michelle Charlton and Niki Mehta, have been volunteering with the Reading Post newspaper to share treasures from their photographic archive....
View ArticleMartin Luther King Day
Today Martin Luther King Day is being observed by many people across the USA. Explore this Tour by the US National Archives and follow the route of the famous 1963 March on Washington and see some of...
View ArticleSan Francisco Street Museums
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee officially launched a special exhibit of photos from the San Francisco Transit Authority Archive in their unique setting February 21st. Early San Francisco street scenes can...
View ArticleHistorypin Joins US National Digital Stewardship Alliance
Historypin has joined the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, an initiative of the United States Library of Congress with the mission to “establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to preserve...
View ArticleWinthrop Rockefeller Centennial
This year is the centennial of the birth of Winthrop Rockefeller, Governor of Arkansas 1967-1971 and institutions across Arkansas are collaborating to host a series of arts conferences, art exhibits,...
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John Gay, Rupert Potter, English Heritage's own
The end of March saw us launch Historypin Channels, where profiles changed in to a completely different beast. Users now have a personalised Historypin map on their Channel page which displays only...
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Working with archival data: Metadata for reuse from the US National Archives
We’ve partnered with the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to help make up to 100,000 newly digitized photographs and several hundred reels of film from the WWI-era available for...
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