Category Archives: Website

Planned maintenance: Tuesday 11th January

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Paula

Advance notice that our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be completely unavailable from 9 am tomorrow (Tuesday 11th January) as we complete some essential works. We aim to complete the work by the end of the day. Apologies … Continue reading →

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Planned downtime: Friday 19th November

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Paula

Advance notice that our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be completely unavailable from 9 am on Friday 19th November as we complete some essential works. We aim to complete the work by the end of the day. Apologies … Continue reading →

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Don’t Lose Your Way

Posted on February 11, 2020 by Paula

An estimated 10,000 miles of footpaths across England and Wales are under threat of being lost forever, but today marks the beginning of a new digital project to identify them all before it is too late. We’re supporting the Ramblers’ … Continue reading →

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Issues with website

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Paula

Apologies if you have had trouble accessing our main website A Vision of Britain through Time in the last few days. We’ve been making some technical changes and it seems to have had unexpected consequences. We hope to get normal … Continue reading →

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Hot off the press – new articles published

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Paula

Twice in the space of two days we have been able to celebrate the successful publication of an article. On Monday we arrived back in the office to discover the Historical Methods theme issue on crowd-sourcing and citizen science had … Continue reading →

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Download problem for protected data resolved

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Paula

We think we’ve resolved the issues that registered UK Federation users were having with downloading our protected data from A Vision of Britain through Time. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. N.B. For the time being you may find it requires two … Continue reading →

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Problem with protected download data from Vision of Britain

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Paula

Apologies if you are having problems with downloading our protected data from A Vision of Britain through Time. We are aware of the problem, and are working on finding the cause. However, our current capacity to sort this kind of … Continue reading →

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AT RISK PERIOD: This week

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Paula

Apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused if you find A Vision of Britain though Time down at any point over the next few days. We’re working on the final stages of a new release of the system so there may be … Continue reading →

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GB1900 project – first case study

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Paula

The GB1900 project, to transcribe all the text from OS six inch to the mile maps of Great Britain from around 1900, is progressing well. Since launch in late September our 866 registered volunteers have between them done over 1.6million … Continue reading →

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Help us record place names from old maps

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Paula

Today we are launching a new website, http://www.gb1900.org, which needs your help! We are looking for on-line volunteers to transcribe and confirm all the place names from early twentieth century six inch to one mile scale maps of Great Britain. … Continue reading →

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