Read my blog post for the Museum of English Rural Life on my Open Spaces Society fellowship: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2021/06/open-spaces-society-fellowship-2020-21-mapping-the-lantern-slides/
I’ve now categorised and geo-located the majority of the c.1000 lantern slides in the Open Spaces Society collection at MERL. NB not all the slides are represented on this map because some can’t be geo-located Here are some statistics: Some headlines: Urban
The Open Spaces Society have now uploaded their lantern slides images to their website: http://images.oss.org.uk/ You can purchase hi-resolution copies of the images from their website. I’m still working my way through them all, classifying them and geo-locating them. The images are
I’m trying to find the locations of the Open Spaces Society lantern slides at MERL. Can you help with the more tricky images? They are labelled very generally, or just show a tree or a field. Comment below with suggestions. Information on