Our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be unavailable for a significant portion of today (23rd February) as we complete some essential works. We aim to complete the work by the end of the day. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
* Update 3:20pm 23/02/2023 * The maintenance is now complete and the site is live again.
As previous indicated we’re overhauling our historical statistics held at the UK Data Service. Each dataset is released under new easier access licence conditions (CC-BY-SA), complementing the download options on our own Vision of Britain site. We’ve done more cleaning, where possible added our gazetteer ID numbers to ease dataset matching and added lots of extra data and tables. To find our data search for ‘gbhd’ in the UK Data Service catalogue: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/find-data/. The latest material we’ve added all relate to occupation and industry from the Census.
SN 4559: We’ve re-released the very large collection of occupation tables adding extra data for 1861 and 1911 for England and Wales and Scottish data for 1861, 1881, 1911 and 1951.
SN 9020: We’ve added a new category for Industry tables which cover England, Wales and Scotland in 1931, 1951 and 1971. These are about the workplace itself, so the business of the employer rather than individual jobs.
SN 3706 has been permanently embargoed as all the material in its tables are now held within tables in the datasets above. The only table that wasn’t, “empl_1961_gb”, is now included in SN 4559.
Our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be completely unavailable from 9 am today (10th November) as we complete some essential works. We aim to complete the work by the end of the day. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
* Update 2:30pm 10/11/2022 * The maintenance is now complete and the site is live again.
We’ve been overhauling our historical statistics held at the UK Data Service, hence the recent embargo of our data held there. When each dataset is ready it’ll be released under new easier access licence conditions (CC-BY-SA), complementing the download options on our own Vision of Britain site. We’ve done more cleaning, where possible added our gazetteer ID numbers to ease dataset matching and added lots of extra data and tables. Please bear with us, the process is on-going but takes a while as some tables are easier than others to update. To find our data search for ‘gbhd’ in the UK Data Service catalogue: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/find-data/.
So far the re-released datasets include:
There are also completely new datasets which include:
Some of our datasets held at the UK Data Service have not had their content updated, however we have re-released them with more open licence conditions. These include:
Finally we discovered there must have been some confusion about versions at some point in the past. We found some of the datasets from our original deposit had been replaced with newer versions of the same data but in different Data Service study numbers. To eliminate this duplication and make it clearer to Data Service users which is the most up-to-date versions of the data they should be using we’ve removed access to the really old versions which will remain embargoed permanently. Instead, pressing the “Access data” button will give a documentation page containing a hyperlink to the newer version of the same material in the catalogue. These include:
We’ll keep this blog and Twitter (@gbhgis) updated as and when other new releases happen.
Advance notice that our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be completely unavailable from 9 am tomorrow (Tuesday 11th January) as we complete some essential works. We aim to complete the work by the end of the day. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Advance notice that our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be completely unavailable from 9 am on Friday 19th November as we complete some essential works. We aim to complete the work by the end of the day. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Apologies if you have had trouble accessing our main website A Vision of Britain through Time in the last few days. We know there is a problem and we are trying to fix it.
We hope to get normal service resumed as soon as possible.
* Update 26/07/2021 * – the website is now back up, thank-you for your patience
An estimated 10,000 miles of footpaths across England and Wales are under threat of being lost forever, but today marks the beginning of a new digital project to identify them all before it is too late.
We’re supporting the Ramblers’ new campaign ‘Don’t Lose Your Way’ to help map these paths and it uses the footpath information that was gathered during our GB1900 project to help identify possible locations.
While our paths are often taken for granted, they allow everyone to enjoy the countryside and connect us to our history within the landscape. However, many footpaths are not recorded on the definitive map of rights of way. If they are not found and added by the cut-off date in 2026 when the final map must be completed, they could be lost forever.
To meet the deadline, the Ramblers are asking people to help. They have launched a new online tool that splits the country into 150,000 1km squares and makes it easy to compare current and historic maps side by side. You can start using it now by joining the search at: ramblers.org.uk/dontloseyourway
Apologies if you have had trouble accessing our main website A Vision of Britain through Time in the last few days. We’ve been making some technical changes and it seems to have had unexpected consequences.
We hope to get normal service resumed as soon as possible.
*update 31/01/2020* We believe the majority of these problems are now fixed. However, there remains an issue with computers that have not been updated recently that we’re still looking into.
At the beginning of this month the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences was merged with the Department of Geography, where the GBHGIS project team has been based since the start of 2000 when it moved to the University of Portsmouth. There are no current plans to physically move us so all contact information remains the same except for the departmental name. We will be updating our websites to reflect this in due course.
Please update any contact information you hold for the Great Britain Historical GIS project team members to say we are now based in the:
School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences.
Thank-you.
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