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How can PastView be used?

Configure PastView to achieve your digital access and discovery goals, offering options for public, private, and monetised access to your digital collections.

Public

Engage your audience with innovative publishing features designed to captivate and enhance interaction with your digital collections.

Private

Safeguard the value and integrity of your most precious digital collections by providing controlled access exclusively.

Monetise

Monetise your digital collections with income-generating features that deepen audience engagement and support sustainability.

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Discuss how you can take advantage of all PastView discovery & access features.

What's in your collection?

Whatever your material type, PastView will enhance how you publish and share.

Your Books

See how Burma Star published their books online to enhance access and discovery.

Manage & publish your books with:

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Harness Metadata
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Books

See how Burma Star published their books online to enhance access and discovery.

Page Turning
Harness Metadata
Magnifying Glass Zoom
Keyword Search
Advanced Filters

Explore all features

All features

Whether managing, publishing or generating revenue, hand select features to realise your access and discovery goals.

Website design services

Excite & engage your audiences, with PastView's built in website design tools or explore our bespoke design services.

Ingest & migration services

Optimise collection organisation with our data support services to realise your archive's discovery and access potential.

Who's PastView built for?

Industry

Promote brand value, empower digital management and take control.

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Cultural Heritage

Unlock collection value, harness technology and enjoy autonomy.

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Government

Overcome physical barriers and protect staff time and valuable resources.

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Business & Corporate

Memberships & Societies

How PastView works

At its core, PastView provides users with an easy way to manage their collections, from uploading to editing and publishing controls.

Explore all collection management features

All features

Whether managing, publishing or generating revenue, hand select features to realise your access and discovery goals.

Website design services

Excite & engage your audiences, with PastView's built in website design tools or explore our bespoke design services.

Ingest & migration services

Optimise collection organisation with our data support services to realise your archive's discovery and access potential.

How PastView works

Enjoy complete control of your collection data, establishing the terms and details that will support the creation of highly effective digital collection structures.

Explore all collection management features

All features

Whether managing, publishing or generating revenue, hand select features to realise your access and discovery goals.

Website design services

Excite & engage your audiences, with PastView's built in website design tools or explore our bespoke design services.

Ingest & migration services

Optimise collection organisation with our data support services to realise your archive's discovery and access potential.

Stories from our users

London Library

Unlocking 185 Years of London Library Membership History

"When we put out the tender, PastView came back with a very broad spectrum of what they could do. They also showed a lot of care for the materials themselves, which we found very encouraging. Any questions that we’ve had, they have been able to answer immediately and work with us very well. I felt immediately at ease when working with the team because they never tried to oversell us, and they didn’t try to undersell us to do a quick and easy job. It was always done with the utmost care."

Nathalie Belkin, Archivist at The London Library

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HSBC (NEW)

Sharing over 150 years of story, culture and brand heritage

"Working in the vault, we are fortunate to be able to flick through photograph albums, read correspondence files, and watch old film footage from years gone by... However, this is the first time that we have been able to open up our cultural heritage for everyone to explore – wherever they are in the world. It is a very exciting moment for the Archives team."

Tina Staples, Global Head of Archives

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Royal Jersey Agricultural & Horticultural Society

Immersive Access & Discover with RJA&HS

"This is something the Society has been wanting to achieve for a number of years, so it is incredibly rewarding to see the digital archive finally come to fruition. These records tell an important story about Jersey’s agricultural and horticultural heritage, and making them accessible online ensures they can be preserved and explored by future generations. We are extremely grateful for the support of the Jersey Community Foundation, whose backing has helped make this project possible."

Louise Agnès, Project Manager

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Sanhurst Collection (NEW)

A military approach to managing and organizing data

"With PastView, we are now able to edit our content and manage our online data in a way we were never able to do before. Incorporating a legacy system into a new format was understandably not straight-forward. However, the team at TownsWeb were especially patient and approachable; being keen to ensure that the system met our needs - which it certainly does."

Dr Sebastian Puncher, Deputy Creator

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ARA (NEW)

ARA's membership publication, now online and fully searchable

"We are always looking for ways to improve the benefits we provide to our members. ARC Magazine has always been a key benefit and the last 18 months has seen it transformed with its move to online publication. Hosting on the PastView platform takes this to a new level and provides even more benefit with the great search function and the ability to access all the back issues, going back to 2011, in one place."

John Chambers, Chief Executive

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BACS

A commitment to to preserving and promoting Scotland’s business and industrial history

"The Business Archives Council of Scotland has been delighted to work with Townsweb Archiving and their PastView platform to make our journal back catalogue available to all. PastView has transformed how we can search the 100s of articles published across the journals since 1977, allowing users to discover the rich resource of articles about Scottish business and industrial history."

Kiara King, Deputy Convenor

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Burma Star Memorial Fund (NEW)

Remembering 'The forgotten army'

"Visitors to the website will find a comprehensive archive which paints a detailed picture of the complexities of the Burma Campaign. We are delighted that every element of the archive can be searched in an accurate, responsive and simple manner. As we had requested, the website also incorporates the facility for veterans’ families to add individual records, stories, valuable diaries and photographs."

Jeremy Archer, Trustee

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Society Jersey (NEW)

A commitment to the country’s history, language and antiquities

"The value of any collection is only ever fully realised when its contents are accessible, so we needed a user-friendly platform that did not sacrifice the needs of serious research. We needed a way to showcase the breadth and depth of our collections in an attractive way that offered powerful, customisable search options when users required them."

Gerard Sargent, Digitisation & Outreach Co-ordinator

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Latest news & advice

PastView Blog Discover the digital collections with enhanced access thanks to PastView. Read our blog for advice on accessibility, news and features

A Day at the AMOT Conference 2026
by cs@townswebarchiving.com (Casper Smithson) on 9 October 2026 at 1:25 pm
Connections, Corporate Memory and a Belgian Waffle: ICA-SBA 2026 in Brussels
by cs@townswebarchiving.com (Casper Smithson) on 9 October 2026 at 9:52 am
Making Digital Collections Discoverable (Clemency Wright & PastView Webinar)
by Paul Marks on 5 October 2026 at 8:29 am
Making Digital Collections Discoverable, with Metadata, Taxonomy and the Role of AI Digitizing a collection is a major undertaking. But creating digital copies of physical material is only part of the challenge.
Beyond AI | Turning Digitization into Discovery (Webinar)
by Paul Marks on 25 September 2026 at 1:00 pm
WEBINAR RECORDED ON 24TH SEPTEMBER 2026
Welcome Martin Drewe | Head of Partnerships and Growth
by Paul Marks on 17 September 2026 at 12:45 pm
We warmly welcome Martin Drewe to our PastView and TownsWeb team, who joins us as Head of Partnerships and Growth.