Independent digital workshop

Wickham Forge

Creative tools for curious minds.

Applications, tools and interactive experiences inspired by history, built around the things people love to explore and create.

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Creative applications

The Scribe Series

Our first major collection of applications brings together illustrated mapmaking, heraldic design, family history and historical timelines. Explore a subject, develop an idea and make something to share.

Creative cartography

AtlasScribe

Create maps that tell a story.

Shape landscapes, draw routes and bring real or imagined places to life in illustrated maps.

Try AtlasScribe Opens the AtlasScribe beta

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The Estuary: an AtlasScribe map with coastlines, rivers, routes, cartographic marks, a legend and scale bar — The Estuary · an exported map study of coastlines, waterways and cartographic detail.

Heraldic design

HeraldryScribe

Discover heraldry. Design your own arms.

Explore heraldic traditions and compose your own arms, from a simple shield to a full achievement.

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Family history and genealogy

LineageScribe

Bring your family history together.

Connect your research, people and stories in family trees, biographical pages and publications.

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Historical timelines

ChronicleScribe

See how history unfolds.

Create clear, interactive timelines and compare events, periods and developments across history. Free to use.

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About the forge

A workshop shaped by curiosity.

Wickham Forge was founded by a historian with interests in technology, design and making specialist tools. The workshop brings those interests together in software that helps people explore ideas and make something of their own.

History is a starting point for a wider creative practice. From substantial applications to smaller tools and interactive experiences, the aim is useful software with room for discovery.

Follow an interestMake something of it