Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index, Europe

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These pages contain a subject and place index (still under construction!) to the books scanned to create the British Library's Mechanical Curator collection of images.

Each entry in the index points to the images on Flickr which match the tag for the book. Additionally, when there are images from a book that have been copied over to Commons, this is shown with a green clickable  (Book cat link, which links to the relevant Commons category for the book.

A full list of the titles of the books that were scanned for the collection is also available, at

Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Full list of books

and succeeding pages, which may help browsing what is available.

The index is not (yet) complete. As of January 22, 2014 the titles in the detailed part of the index below accounted for about 40% of the images in the whole collection. A further 35% of images can be found through a more loosely organised set of "to do" pages constructed based on the books' class-marks, while a further 20% of images occur in books which are classed below as fiction, plays, verse or works. The focus of the indexing so far has been mostly geographical, with little development as yet of thematic classification.

The Commons main project page for the collection gives some further hints on searching; on how to upload the images to Commons, and on how to tag images on Flickr. If you do upload images to Commons, please create a Commons category for the book they were taken from, like those in Category:Books with images from the British Library Mechanical Curator collection, and include the images in it. The template {{HasBookCat}} can then be used to create a link to the category (on a green background) from the book's entry in this list.

Georeferencing campaign: For any titles below that have a  to georef template, please click on that templated link to find the thumbnails and then the pages on Flickr for the relevant map and plan images, and follow the links in their image description sections to the BL/Klokan Georeferencer to place the images on a present-day map of the world. This in turn should allow the map images' ready upload to Wikimedia Commons with reasonably accurate automatic categorisation. See also: BL information page and overall progress page.


Europe[edit]

See also: ./to do/Europe and ./to do/Europe history

Alps[edit]

Mediterranean[edit]

Groups of Countries[edit]

Low Countries[edit]

This section is transcluded from Synoptic index/Low Countries.

See also: ./to do/Low Countries and ./to do/Low Countries history

Belgium[edit]

– Brussels [edit]
– Antwerp [edit]
– Flanders [edit]
– Places [edit]

Netherlands[edit]

– Amsterdam [edit]
– Other places in the Netherlands [edit]

Luxembourg[edit]

Scandinavia[edit]

This section is transcluded from Synoptic index/Scandinavia.

See also: ./to do/Scandinavia and ./to do/Scandinavia history

Denmark[edit]

– Copenhagen [edit]
– Roskilde [edit]

Greenland[edit]

Iceland[edit]

Norway[edit]

-- Trondheim[edit]

Sweden[edit]



– Stockholm [edit]
– Gothenburg [edit]

Finland[edit]

Countries[edit]

Albania[edit]

Austria[edit]

See also: ./to do/Central Europe and ./to do/Central Europe history

– Vienna [edit]

Bulgaria[edit]

Czech Republic[edit]

France[edit]

This section is transcluded from Synoptic index/France.

See also: ./to do/France and ./to do/France history

-- partition[edit]

— map books [edit]

— geographical features [edit]

coasts [edit]
rivers [edit]
mountains [edit]

— history [edit]

Gauls and Romans[edit]
Medieval France[edit]
Ancien Regime[edit]
French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars[edit]
Post-Revolutionary France[edit]
Franco-Prussian War[edit]

– Paris [edit]

section 1[edit]
section 2[edit]
section 3[edit]
section 4[edit]
section 5[edit]
section 6[edit]
section 7[edit]
section 8[edit]

Île-de-France[edit]

– Other places in France [edit]

Regions of France (overseas territories treated elsewhere)
Alsace and Lorraine[edit]
Aquitaine[edit]
Auvergne[edit]
Burgundy[edit]
Brittany[edit]
Centre (Val de Loire)[edit]
Champagne-Ardenne[edit]
Franche-Comté[edit]
Languedoc-Roussillon[edit]
Limousin[edit]
Midi-Pyrénées[edit]
Nord-Pas de Calais[edit]
Normandy[edit]
Pays-de-la-Loire[edit]
Picardy[edit]
Poitou-Charentes[edit]
Provence[edit]
Rhône-Alpes[edit]


Germany[edit]

This section is transcluded from Synoptic index/Germany.

(Wikinote: Entries 1 to 15.000 of the full list of books have been checked for books related to Germany in today´s borders)

See also: ./to do/Germany; ./to do/Germany history 1; ./to do/Germany history 2; and ./to do/Germany history 3

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partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]
partition 3[edit]

– Bavaria [edit]

partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]
partition 3[edit]
partition 4[edit]

– Northeast [edit]

(including Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia and Western Pommerania)

partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]
partition 3[edit]

– Northwest [edit]

(including Hamburg, Hanover and Westphalia)

partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]
partition 3[edit]
partition 4[edit]

– Rhineland [edit]

(including Cologne, Frankfurt and Hesse)

partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]
partition 3[edit]
partition 4[edit]
partition 5[edit]

– Saxony and Thuringia [edit]

partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]

– Southwest [edit]

(including Württemberg, Baden, Hohenzollern and the Black Forest)

partition 1[edit]
partition 2[edit]


Greece[edit]

See also: ./to do/Balkans and ./to do/Balkans history

— Ancient Greece[edit]

See also: ./to do/Ancient Greece

Gibraltar[edit]

Hungary[edit]

See also: ./to do/Central Europe and ./to do/Central Europe history

– Budapest [edit]

– Other places in Hungary [edit]

Ireland[edit]

Italy[edit]

This section is transcluded from Synoptic index/Italy.

See also: ./to do/Italy and ./to do/Italy history

– Rome [edit]

– Florence [edit]

– Naples [edit]

– Sicily [edit]

– Venice [edit]

Ancient Rome[edit]

See also: ./to do/Ancient Rome


Malta[edit]

Poland[edit]

See also: ./to do/Poland history

Portugal[edit]

Romania[edit]

See also: ./to do/Central Europe and ./to do/Central Europe history

Russia[edit]

See also: ./to do/Russia and ./to do/Russia history

Serbia[edit]

Spain[edit]

See also: ./to do/Spain and ./to do/Spain history

– Madrid [edit]

– Pyrenees [edit]

– Other places in Spain [edit]

Switzerland[edit]

See also: ./to do/Switzerland and ./to do/Switzerland history

European Turkey[edit]

Ukraine[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]