Category Archives: Tracking the Future of the Past

From Oxfam to the Archive: how to bind a lantern slide

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

Volunteers are AMAZING. Recently, we have been working on the Ashmolean Museum’s lantern slide collection, and their volunteers have been helping to clean and catalogue the slides. One of the team presented us with this – a purchase from the Headington … Continue reading →

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Visit to Berlin

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

A trip to Berlin had been planned for a long time and this gave me the opportunity to combine research with pleasure.  At the archives, we are digitising glass lantern slides so that this rich bank of history will be available … Continue reading →

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City in the Sand

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

As we were scanning a box on Roman sites around the Mediterranean this image of Leptis Magna sprang out at us. Located directly on the sea in what is now Libya, Leptis Magna rose to become one of the great … Continue reading →

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HEIR loves Stonehenge!

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

One of the best parts about working on the HEIR project has been the opportunity to experiment with rephotographing sites in the pictures. On Thursday, 26th June I had the chance to visit Stonehenge. As well as seeing the new … Continue reading →

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Bridge ballet

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Archaeology Archives Administrator

We are busy scanning images to add to the Historic Environment Image Resource, which will be coming online later this year. Some of the lantern slide photographs are so good we want to share them straight away – like this … Continue reading →

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