Author Archives: Humphrey Southall

About Humphrey Southall

Director, Great Britain Historical GIS; Reader in Geography, University of Portsmouth

Updating Vision of Britain to include 2011 census information

Posted on August 9, 2015

We are currently working to revise A Vision of Britain through Time to include the 2011 Census of Population. Our aim is to launch a revised site in the spring of 2016. This means not just adding 2011 statistical data, … Continue reading →

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Using Vision of Britain — and Wikipedia — in education

Posted on November 2, 2013

This is being written at the Eduwiki conference in Cardiff, where I gave a presentation on the first year course I run, which uses both A Vision of Britain through Time and Wikipedia as teaching resources. Each student is assigned … Continue reading →

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Announcing Pelagios 3

Posted on September 19, 2013

“Pelagios 3” is a new two-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation and led by Leif Isaksen (Southampton University), Elton Barker (Open University) and Rainer Simon (Austrian Institute of Technology). It will annotate, link and index place references in digitized … Continue reading →

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New travel writing: Thomas Pennant’s tour of Scotland in 1769

Posted on July 20, 2013

We have just added another tour to our collection of travel writing. This is Thomas Pennant’s A Tour in Scotland 1769, joining his later The Journey from Chester to London (1780). The book ends with a simple list of the … Continue reading →

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Starting a long goodbye to .jsp

Posted on March 25, 2013

We went live with a couple of new features today. URL rewriting: If you look at your browser’s address bar, for many pages it will now display a shorter address. For example, the “place page” for Evesham is now: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1002 … Continue reading →

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New article about using A Vision of Britain for local history: Great Rollright

Posted on December 18, 2012

The Oxfordshire Family History Society has just published an article we have written about using the web site A Vision of Britain through Time to study the history of a single village, using the example of Great Rollright in Oxfordshire, … Continue reading →

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We now have more detailed Irish historical maps

Posted on December 3, 2012

We are continuing to improve our coverage of Ireland. Up to now, the only historical mapping was what we have for more or less the whole of Europe: 1:500,000 maps published by the British General Staff Geographical Survey in the … Continue reading →

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