Exploring Britain's History From Above

You tin at in i trial explore over 80,000 historical aerial photographs of United Kingdom dating from 1945-2009. Cambridge University’s Collection of Aerial Photographs contains thousands of aerial photographs captured yesteryear the University’s Air Photography Unit since the halt of World War II. There are almost one-half a meg aerial photos inwards the collection. 80,000 of them convey at in i trial been digitized together with tin endure constitute together with viewed on the Cambridge Air Photos website.

You tin search together with browse the aerial photos of United Kingdom yesteryear place together with yesteryear category. If you lot desire to search the collection yesteryear place hence you lot tin role the Cambridge Air Photos interactive map. When zoomed out the map exclusively shows a choice of the available aerial photographs. You involve to zoom inwards on the map earlier all the available photos volition look on the map.


Some of the best images inwards the collection convey been organized into featured collections, such every bit Ancient Britain, Castles together with Coasts. Around 1,500 of the aerial photos are likewise available every bit high resolution zooming images. These images are likewise beingness made available using International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) technology, hence you lot tin explore them inwards item on whatever IIIF viewer.