Skip to content

Search
Timeline
Map
Graph
Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Random

A living digital encyclopedia of human civilization. Begin anywhere; follow the threads.

¶ Browse

Threads
Civilizations
Eras
Timeline
Map
Graph
Random entry
About

¶ Sources & licensing

Adapted prose from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — public domain in the United States.
Imagery via Wikimedia Commons; per-image attribution on each entry.

¶ Colophon

Set in EB Garamond and JetBrains Mono. Built on Next.js 16 + Postgres 17 with pgvector + Drizzle ORM, deployed to Vercel atop a Neon Postgres branch.

Source at github.com/chloeilabs/alexandria.

Alexandria · MMXXVIExplicit colophon · 2026

Staines-upon-Thames · Alexandria

Place

Staines-upon-Thames

Also known as

Staines
Staines
Staines
Staines
Staines
Staines

Image illustrating Staines-upon-Thames — archival plate · Wikimedia Commons · Staines-upon-Thamessee Wikimedia Commons

This entry is a stub. The Library is awakening — a longer account is being written.

Connected to

birthplace ofAllan Glover1950 CE
birthplace ofBill Montgomery1878 CE
birthplace ofDick Mitchison, Baron Mitchison1894 CE
place of death ofFrank Drabble1888 CE
birthplace ofHarry Gosford Reeves1896 CE
birthplace ofNicholas Chamberlain1963 CE
place of death ofPeter Gelson1941 CE
birthplace ofRichard Archer1977 CE
birthplace ofTerry Curran1940 CE
birthplace ofWilliam Furse1865 CE

+ 6 further connections to entries not yet ingested

¶ Auctoritates · sources

Adapted from Wikipediaview source ↗
CC BY-SA 4.0