Interactive Antique Dealer Map Website

The Antique Dealers project interactive map website can be viewed at antiquetrade.leeds.ac.uk.

The site is continually updated by our teams of volunteers adding more and more data to the site; we now have more than 4,000 dealers in the Map. You can send us information on any dealers absent from the site or any corrections to the information on dealers already in the site. Please do bear with us if the dealer or location you seek is not yet included in the site - the information will appear, eventually!

Please email any suggestions to us at antiquedealers@leeds.ac.uk

The interactive map is seeking to draw attention to the changing nature of the antique trade over 100 years and you will, once we have sufficient data, be able to investigate and, crucially, to visualise the trading the changes in the antique trade over time. So, for example, the site will enable you to:

• see and compare the concentrations of dealers in various parts of Britain over time - when, for example, did The Cotswolds become a key location for the trade, and when did that change?
• track the different ways in which various dealers have been described and classified over time, and when for example, did dealers in 'Old English Furniture' emerge, and when did that term fall out of fashion?
• read about the changing history of individual dealerships as they move location, change ownership, or change trading specialisms.

We hope you enjoy the interactive site.