Changes

2026

22 October

  • improvements to mobile view, new toolbar, scroll page under system toolbar on iPhone
  • add breadcrumbs to pages
  • add a scroll to top button

18 October

  • add interactive tour option for some Self-Guided tours

10 October

  • switch satellite overlay baseman to Apple Maps for higher resolution

3 October

  • add support for IIIF image overlays and embeds from CUDL, NLS and others.
  • add project specific overlays as well as global and article specific

12 September

  • new Home page design

10 August

  • added Alt text to all images

9 August

  • added transcripts to all audio files. Transcripts are generated with Gemini Flash-Lite-3.1 and may not be completely accurate.

1 August

  • added an all tags view at /tags/
  • change colour scheme on search panel for accessibility

31 July

  • added listed building and conservation area overlays for Cambridge and South Cambs

30 July

  • added ability to show overlays on the map and added Digital Britannia as a built in option

22 July

  • many accessibility changes, keyboard navigation, better contrasting colours, aria attributes

19 July

  • Reduce cookie usage, document usage and add consent banner
  • Fix embeds of Capturing Cambridge pages and PDFs on the site
  • Add protections against bots and crawlers
  • Add control panel to allow which points are shown on the map

10 July

  • Large scale rewrite of website to new platform
  • Added button to allow details pane to be hidden and shown
  • Added initial search as you type to Search pane and reorganised layout
  • Forward/Back along streets will keep to the same side of the road and stay within the same project where a post is in multiple projects

18 May

  • Add Research and Street Directories pages

12 May

  • Fix problems with Home/Map/Article pages with mobile layout
  • Fix link to Flickr slideshow not working

6 May

  • All PDFs now show in a viewer from where they can be downloaded
  • Embedded posts from Capturing Cambridge or other sites now display correctly and links can be followed

19 April

  • Navigation between articles and pages has been made quicker and smoother – the map now flies to the new location on a page change
  • Caching added to pages

27 February

  • Reworked Search Results page showing articles, documents and images separately
  • Add a Projects field to article page to show when an article belongs to more than one project
  • Add clearer close button to Info popup and allow closing by clicking on map
  • Lazy load tile images

20 February

  • Add Instagram button to main toolbar, update X logo
  • Fix Search button on Home page

8 March

  • started adding Source information to articles

6 February

  • Added an About page with a brief history of the site

16 January

  • disable pull to refresh and other improvements to the layout on mobile

9 January

  • switch to new post sharing plugin, share to Facebook/Bluesky
  • improvements to display of wide and mobile layouts

2025

21 November

  • Split Archive page by file type and fix problems

12 September

  • Fixes for Safari 26

26 March

  • Make YouTube video size responsive

14 February

  • Switch to MapTiler maps