Internet and History: Unique archive of aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 made available online

Unique aerial photographs of Britain from the 1940s to 2009 have been made available online on Cambridge University Library’s Digital Library as part of “Britain from the air: 1945-2009” online project.

The first 1,500 photographs from a vast archive of almost half a million images have gone online, showing not only ancient landscapes, but also how the UK’s built environment underwent radical change from the bomb-scarred post-war period to the first decade of the 21st century.