Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
British Library maps show charts streets London forgot
Overlays reveal demolished alleys beneath modern estates.
A British Library exhibition layered historic maps over modern satellite views, revealing alleys and courts erased by postwar estates and ring roads.
Family historians crowded the reading tables with notebooks; school groups used touchscreens to find their postcodes.
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