Tagged “local-history”
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North East Museums Blog
A blog from the museums, galleries and archives of Tyne and Wear, with stories about collections and local history acros…
NYC Honorary Street Names Map
An interactive map of New York City's honorary street co-names, showing who each corner is named after and why, from loc…
Pub History Project Leicester
A local history project documenting the pubs of Leicester, with photos, timelines, and stories about the buildings and t…
Ray's Miscellany
A sprawling personal site of hobby subjects: optical illusions, bizarre postcards, Bristol history, a father's Royal Nav…
robertfinch.ca
A retro-styled personal site from Dunnville, Ontario with family genealogy, local history of rural Ontario and Nova Scot…
Scoreboard Pressure
A blog devoted to old scoreboards at country football and cricket grounds around Australia, with photos and the local st…
SF Memory
Historic San Francisco photo archive with glass negatives from the 1910s, old postcards, transit photos and the Tiffany…
Telephone Museum of Prince Edward Island
An online museum on the history of the telephone on PEI, covering party lines, pioneers, rural phone companies and old e…
Tenement Town
A local-history project that picks one Edinburgh tenement address at a time and digs through census and archive records…
Texas Escapes
A sprawling online magazine about Texas, with pages on hundreds of towns and ghost towns, county histories, legends, roa…
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
A long-running podcast and blog on New York City history, with hundreds of episodes and posts on lost buildings, old din…
The Fresnan
A Fresno, California culture blog covering local restaurants, old businesses, city history and urban hikes, written by a…
The LJ4D Project
An architect's ongoing project modelling how Loughborough Junction in South London was built, demolished and rebuilt fro…
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The London Dead
A long-running blog of stories from London's cemeteries, crypts and churchyards, digging up the history of the places an…
The Neighborhoods
Photographer Rob Stephenson visits one New York City neighborhood a week across all five boroughs, pairing street photog…
The Riddle of the Embankment Sphinx
A London history blogger spends a few unproductive hours trying to track down the Victorian foundry behind the bronze sp…
The Shadows of The Past
A homespun old-west local history site with a master index, chronicle calendar and group pages exploring frontier storie…
The Tree in Our Backyard
Alexis Madrigal investigates the old tree in his Oakland backyard, digging into the people who tended it before him and…
Venice: I Am Not Making This Up
A long-running personal blog about real everyday life in Venice, mixing neighborhood stories, boats, festivals and odd c…
Yunzi's Blog
A blog documenting long-forgotten history around Worcestershire, England, from Neolithic and Roman sites to local storie…
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