About the project

Pinning The Queen’s History is a special Collection that acts as a global archive of Her Majesty’s visits and the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It has been created to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

It is a way for users from all over the world and from every generation to share photographs, videos, other materials and memories of The Queen's visits and the Jubilee celebrations from throughout her reign.

Buckingham Palace has already provided a selection of images of items from their records, plus there have been contributions from a number of other major archives. Now we’re looking for contributions from individuals and archives.

So if you've got photos, videos or memories of Her Majesty visiting your town or documenting your own royal celebrations, do add them in here.

We want to get pins in the map for all Her Majesty's visits and Jubilee celebrations, dating back to 1952, when the idea of an online archive like this, contributed to and seen by anyone in the world, would have been completely unimaginable.

Pinning The Queen's History was developed by Historypin, with support from Google.

Historypin

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together from across different generations, cultures and places, around the history of their families and neighbourhoods, increasing contact and building stronger communities.

We Are What We Do, the organisation that created Historypin, is a not-for-profit company that creates ways for millions of people to do more small, good things, helping address social and environmental issues.

We Are What We Do is based in London with offices in San Francisco and part of our team in Bulgaria. To find out more, go to wearewhatwedo.org

Google

Google has supported this special Diamond Jubilee project and is We Are What We Do's main technology partner on Historypin.

Google and We Are What We Do have been working together from the early stages of development to get the most out of Historypin's use of Google tools, including Google Maps, Picasa, Google App Engine and Android.

Google shares We Are What We Do's commitment to Historypin as a non-commercial, collaborative project that delivers social impact and contributes to digital inclusion.