Expert digitisation consultants
Inhouse collection & delivery service
Accredited digitisation studio team
Highly accurate results
Instantaneous digital content searches
Capture data from any material type
Showcase your collections online
Improve access & discoverability 
Fully immersive virtual experiences
The Sandhurst Collection: A Military Approach to Managing and Organising Data
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst – creating a research website of national and international importance with a bespoke PastView system.
Helping Military Collections Thrive in the Digital Age
Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to work with a wide range of military museums and organisations, such as The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, The Royal Dragoon Guards, The Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps Museum, The Royal Lancers Museum, Western Front Association, Burma Star Memorial Fund, and more, helping them preserve, digitise, and share their collections, ensuring they remain accessible for future generations.
Safeguard heritage
Counter deterioration, damage and loss with robust digital duplicates
Protect assets
Maintain reputation and integrity stylistically and guard against infringements
Broaden engagement
Innovate to attract new online audiences and reconnect with existing ones
Remember & respect
Mark significant people, anniversaries and events while supporting research
Monetisation
Monetise your military archives
Your collections hold unique stories, and with the right tools, they can also generate valuable income. Our PastView platform makes this possible by offering a range of flexible monetisation features, allowing you to provide audiences with deeper, more personal engagement while supporting the sustainability of your archive. From digital downloads to subscription models, you remain in full control of what is made available, how it’s accessed, and at what cost. View all Monetisation options
Data Capture
Harness valuable, searchable content
We offer a range of data capture services, employed at either the point of, or post, digitisation and necessary for full control of your archive. Our specialist technicians are on hand as you transition from physical military archive to digital military archive, harnessing the power that will drive your archive search. From the transcription of your handwritten records to the manual data entry of your registers, capturing your data is a vital step towards accessibility. View all data capture services
Publishing
Manage and showcase your collections
Increasingly, holders of military archives are being expected to find ways to share their collections online in the name of genealogy and research. With so much data to manage, an effective system for organising and controlling items is invaluable. PastView is perfect for creating digital stories, raising awareness and vital funds, increasing membership and protecting collection legacy, promoting full access and greater discovery. Learn more about PastView
I’m here to help!
We specialise in helping businesses and organisations navigate their archival needs—both short and long term. There’s no substitute for a real conversation, so why not have a friendly, no-obligation chat with Nathanael? Get in touch to explore how digitisation and publishing can bring your military heritage archive to life.Hear more from organisations we work with
"The updated web service provided by Townsweb afforded the opportunity to reconcile our initial web provision with a new vision going forward. 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
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
"By hosting the archive online, we can resource our museum staff and volunteers in their work, providing a time capsule for those that have served in support of their wellbeing. Equally, we can support those from outside the regiment with educational, ancestral and historical enquiries.
Throughout this partnership TownsWeb's expertise and experience have been invaluable. Providing innovative, flexible and empathetic solutions to our needs. The outcome of which is our exciting, educational site. That sustains our heritage, promotes our ethos while continuing to inform and inspire the men and women that serve today."
Graeme Green
Royal Dragoon Guards
Recent news & customer stories from military archives
Publishing the Burma Star Memorial Fund; Remembering ‘The Forgotten Army’
Read the full Burma Star case study here to discover the digital journey from highly detailed design brief to published and beautifully polished website.