What Was Here app
Discover the East Riding like never before with the What Was Here app. View old photos of places you visit and buy prints of selected images for the perfect souvenir. Coming soon: Historic maps!
Your window on the past
Hold up your smartphone and see what your town looked like over the years with just a tap.
Explore from home
Explore content on the app from the comfort of your own home or go online with your computer on the What Was Here website.
Online Exhibitions
Archive Maps
We hold a collection of historic Ordnance Survey maps for between 1855 and 1929. These can be viewed online by visiting the archive maps viewer page.
Visit Archives MapsFindMyPast
Some East Riding Archives parish registers can be found on the Find My Past website. While you normally would have to pay a subscription for using FindMyPast, it is free to access on the computers in the research room at the Treasure House, Beverley, or at East Riding Libraries.
Find my Past is no longer available to use from home. We apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Ancestry will still be available however, using your East Riding libraries membership.
Visit FindMyPastAncestry
Get free access to Ancestry.com on the computers in the research room at the Treasure House, Beverley, or at East Riding Libraries.
Remembering the Riding in video
Watch a fantastic selection of our video collections on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Youtube Channel.
View the Archives PlaylistTrawling Through Time
Discover the history of Beverley’s shipbuilding past with our online blog, Trawling Through Time. Funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the blog tells the story of Beverley shipbuilders Cook, Welton & Gemmell between 1905 and 1962 and the archive collection we preserve. Find out about the project, our volunteers and activities we held.
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