The archive, in place
Every place opens
another story.
Start with a familiar town or a distant coast. Find the films, historical lives and surviving records connected to each setting.
18 places21 filmsA world of evidence
Numbered places match the list below. Groups open a closer view.
Place 16 1715 map · wider historical film
Ireland
Island-level historical context
A 1715 map of Ireland appears among the historical sources for The Last 2,000 Years. The film’s early geography supplies context before the later family documents and photographs.
On the mapIsland-level setting for a historical map, rather than evidence for an ancestor’s exact birthplace or migration route.
About this map and its geography
These are settings from the published films and person records. A pin can represent a town, island, installation or wider region; each place explains its scope. The stories belong to different people and periods.
Made with Natural Earth, 1:110m land and 1:50m Canary Island outlines. Public-domain coastline data, projected and rounded for this self-contained locator. The Canary Islands use finer 1:50m outlines. Coastlines provide modern geographic context; no political boundaries are drawn. Public-domain terms.
The Places in Their Time collection provides the archive’s separate queue for deeper historical place contexts.