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Some of our favourite coverage

Bringing social capital back to life
The Times, 31st March 2012

Google and Historypin launch online gallery to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Google Blog, 12th March 2012

Mapping Reading's past with Historypin
Get Reading, 21st September 2012

"Using New Tools, Mapping Old Brooklyn"
New York Times Lens, 22nd July 2011

"Picture the Past: Historypin Mashes Up Archived Photos with the Present"
Good, 15th July 2011

"New Android App Brings History To City Streets"
NY1, 14th July 2011

Historypin Launches, Shows Your World As It Was"
Mashable, 13th July 2011

"Old Meets New: 'Historypin' Is a Map-Based Time Capsule for Vintage Photos"
Time Techland, 11th July 2011

"With Historypin, photography has entered the fourth dimension, and I'm going with it"
The Guardian, 4th July 2010

Coverage to date

National Portrait Gallery share pics of Queen
The Sun, 11th March 2012

Archives ‘pinning’ local history
Northumberland Today, March 2012

Muni Celebrates Its Past, But Sees Service Cuts In Its Future
Huffington Post, 22nd February 2012

Britain's 50 New Radicals
The Guardian, 18th February 2012

The Sunday Times App List
The Sunday Times, 22nd January 2012

App connects historic photos to modern points on the map
The Globe and Mail, 4th January 2012

1966 and the Reading FC kit that took the biscuit
Get Reading, 23rd December 2012

Put a Pin in It! National Archives Joins Historypin
NARAtions: The Blog of the US National Archives, November 30th 2011

Historypin site unlocks the secrets of Birmingham's past
Birmingham Mail, 8th November 2011

It’s a Google Streetmap of history: How our famous landmarks looked up to 170 years ago
Daily Mail, 7th November 2011

A history in pin-ups
Reader’s Digest, Asia, November 2011

Post Your Pictures, Then Take A Walk Through History
NPR, 23rd October 2011

Interview with Nick Stanhope by Alan Brough
774 ABC Melbourne (Radio), 16th October 2011

App of the Week
Sunday Times, 2nd October 2011

Historypin app lets people create a "time machine"
Reuters, 12th September 2011

Reading pins down new online history
Get Reading, 31st August 2011

Time travelers: Websites of vintage photos capture moments in moments
Washington Post, 19th August 2011

"Historic New England puts period photos on the map"
Boston Globe Downtown, 11th August 2011

"A New Tool for Digital Storytelling"
Stanford Social Innovation Review, 11th August 2011

"Historypin, la macchina del tempo digitale"
Il Fatto Quotidiano, 8th August 2011

Interview with Nick Stanhope, Historypin, CEO
Daily Brink, 26th July 2011

"Historypin puts neighborhood history in the palm of your hand"
Twin Cities Daily Planet, 24th July 2011

"Historypin puts historical photos on the map"
Spatial Sustain, 24th July 2011

"Historypin, A Project Mapping the Past and Future"
Beena Project, 17th July 2011

"Map your History"
The Kim Komando Show, 17th July 2011

"Local history buffs have a new toy"
Washington Post, 13th July 2011

"C5N - Tecnologia - History, pin viaje al pasad"
Canal 5 Noticias (C5N), 13th July 2011

"Сервис Historypin откроет окно в прошлое"
Хабрахабр, 13th July 2011

"Blending Old and New Tech to Make History Come to Life"
The Chronicle of Philanthopy, 12th July 2011

"Historypin: A Hot Web Time Machine"
Slate, 12th July 2011

"Historypin Launches, Shows Your World As It Was"
Yahoo! News, 12th July 2011

"Global Launch of Historypin, Powered by Google"
Dodge and Burn, 11th July 2011

"Oh snap: Old photos hit Google Maps"
MSNBC, 11th July 2011

"History in your pocket with Historypin’s new Android app"
The Next Web, 11th July 2011

"Historypin Goes Global"
Google Maps Mania, 11th July 2011

"Somewhere in Brooklyn"
The New York Times, 7th July 2011

Billericay School Pupils Help to Pin Down History"
Billericay Essex, June 2011

"Make Document Based Questions with a Digital Time machine"
Copy/Paste, 2nd January 2011

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery"
Brockley Central, 29th November 2010

"We will remember then"
The Sun, 11th November 2010

"A photographic stroll through history"
Radio Netherlands, 17th October 2010

"New York Rises in New Pics"
The Sun, 11th September 2010

"A Worldwide Photo Project Needs You (And Your Grandparents)"
The Picture Show Blog, NPR, August 5th 2010

"Net album sorts old photos"
IOL Scitech, 23rd July 2010

"If you're looking for double ... you came to the right place"
The Sun, 22nd July 2010

"History Bridges generation gap"
South Wales Echo, 20th July 2010

"Our Ghosts in the Machine"
Sunday Times, 18th July 2010

"Historypin turns Google Street View into a window on the past"
The Telegraph, 26th June 2010

"Nostalgie! Foto's van vroeger in Streetview"
Geenstijl, 9th June 2010

"Historypin: Patchwork History"
History Today, 7th June 2010

"Historypin puts the past on the map with Google Street View"
Cnet, 4th June 2010

"Largest Archive of Photos on Google Maps"
Google Maps Mania, 3rd June 2010

"A snapshot through time: The website that lets you 'pin' historic photos onto Street View"
The Daily Mail, 3rd June 2010

"Whoa, this is heavy!"
Historical Society of Riverton, 30th January 2010

Give us your jubilee memories, says Google
The Telegraph, 12th March 2012