Historian of protest, social movements, public space & landscape. In Croydon/ from Rochdale. Also @ruralmodernism. Acknowledgement without breaking stride
Feb 27, 2022 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
#twitterstorians - quick 🧵for beginners on how to access and use historic OS maps (Britain):
But why?, I hear you ask 1. compare & contrast urban/rural landscape change 2. record linkage with census data 3. add some depth and material representation to accounts of places
Step 1. Decide whether you want to:
a) use image files of old OS maps and draw on them in Paint or another image editor (the simplest way), or
b) use geo-references files and draw on them using GIS.
