Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.
Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.
Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.
A vibrant Cambridge Market in the 1900's
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today with several marquees in place
Historypin was created to help people to come together from across different generations, cultures and places, around the history of their families and neighbourhoods, improving personal relations and building stronger communities.
Historypin was founded by Oxford graduate and former teacher Nick Stanhope, CEO of London-based 'We Are What We Do', a non-profit company created in 2010.
Historypin has been developed by the not-for-profit company, in partnership with Google.
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| Search result for "Bangalore" |
Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.
Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.
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| A Closer look |
The website is the main focus of the whole operation, alongside it an app has been released for iPhone and Android phones, already downloaded 270,000 times, and several projects to work in communities and schools have been set up.
The app also allows users to add content in a few different ways - to take modern replicas of historical images, capture modern historical moments as they are happening, and scan and upload old images.
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| MG Road, Bangalore |
The local projects take participation directly into neighbourhoods to broad, diverse audiences and facilitates the creation of community collections through outreach, support and lots of local partnerships.
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| You too can Pin your memories.. |
It's easy for people to use, all you need to do is Digitise your images, collect information, the more details you can find the better, upload it and pin it.
