Folks,
This might be of interest.
Nick
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Subject: ONLINE: Charles Booth's Maps Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-9
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You may be interested to know that the Online Guide to the Papers of Charles
Booth, an archive project based at the London School of Economics, has just
put a digital version of the Booth Maps Descriptive of London Poverty,
1898-99 online for pre-launch testing.
Users can zoom, scroll, and use a thumbnail map to navigate round the map.
We have put a modern digital map online too, which can be viewed in parallel
with the Booth map.
If you have a few minutes to spare, please visit the site at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/booth/ , click on the link at the top of the page, and
take a look at what we have been doing. We are keen to get as much feedback
as possible before the site launches in April 2001, so please feel free to
let us know what you think.
Over the next few weeks we will be adding search boxes to the map to allow
searching by modern street name, post code, area and parish name, and
landmarks. We are also beginning the process of making other material from
Booth's survey into life and labour in London available online: these will
include the full catalogue of the Booth collection at the LSE and digital
images of the police notebooks from the survey, as well as material from the
Booth collection at the University of London Library.
Many thanks
Caroline Shaw
Project Manager
Online Guide to the Papers of Charles Booth
London School of Economics Library
25 Southampton Buildings
London WC2A 1PH
Tel: 020 7955 6933
Fax: 020 7955 7454
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.lse.ac.uk/booth/
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Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
tel : 01865 277013
fax : 01865 277139
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homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/
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