The atlas
The geographic spine.
Four nations across the British Isles, plus the smaller isles and dependencies beside them, 134 tiles, 306 families. Every surname in the catalogue is anchored to the land it came from, pick a place to enter the map.
British Isles
Scotland, England, Wales & Ireland together
Every family page ties a name to ground, regions, tiles, coasts. This map is the same archipelago in one frame: national outlines plus internal atlas boundaries so you can see where each country sits before you open its chapter.
England
England
The shires and the smoke, Anglo-Saxon tun-names, Norman feudal lines, London's melting pot, and the great post-Conquest surname pool of the English-speaking world.
- Families
- 136
- regions
- 42
รire
Ireland
Four provinces, thirty-two counties, and a diaspora that outnumbers the island by ten to one. The land of the tรบatha and the chieftains, of the Plantations and the Famine emigrations, where the family name is half the inheritance.
- Families
- 56
- counties
- 32
Alba
Scotland
From the Hebrides to the Borders: Highland clans, Norse-Gaelic earldoms, Lowland riding families and the great Glasgow-Edinburgh surname pool.
- Families
- 71
- tiles
- 42
Cymru
Wales
The land of the cantref and the commote, a kingdom of patronymics, where Owain Glyndลตr was the last to be called Prince of Wales by his own people.
- Families
- 34
- tiles
- 17
A bucket, not a nation
Islands & Dependencies
The smaller isles and dependencies of Europe โ Crown territories and offshore homelands with their own distinct surname stock, gathered in one place. Each carries a deep, self-contained story even where the catalogue is still young.
- Families
- 9
- Territories
- 1
Step Into History
Donโt just map it โ walk it.
The atlas ties every name to ground. Step Into History rebuilds that ground as photoreal walks through time โ stand in the towns and clan castles your family came from and look all the way around. Free, in your browser.
Step Into History ยท New
The castle on its crag, St Giles' crown spire, and the closes tumbling to the Cowgate.
Step Into History ยท New
The old castle above the River Ness, the market cross and the seven-arched bridge โ on the eve of Culloden.
Step Into History ยท New
St Paul's, Covent Garden and the gaslit West End โ Regency London, soot-hazed and horse-drawn.