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Category Archives: Datasets
GB1900 in use – GB1900 Works
The first example of someone doing something interesting with the GB1900 gazetteer data was published this last week. Jim Clifford based at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada has used the abridged data to identify all locations associated with “works”, … Continue reading
GB1900 historical gazetteer launch
Monday saw the launch of the final version of the GB1900 historical gazetteer data-set at a special event organised at the Institute of Historical Research in London. The event was also a celebration of the work of all the volunteers … Continue reading
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Tagged crowd-sourcing, GB1900, historical gazetteers, historical mapping
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GBH GIS: Providing spatial frameworks for British history
The Vision of Britain site is the main public face of the Great Britain Historical GIS, but we are also supplying boundary data and other resources to online partners: The National Library of Wales — Welsh Tithe Maps This project, … Continue reading
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Tagged Base maps, Boundary maps, Cynefin, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales
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We now have more detailed Irish historical maps
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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Search for Compton Census transcriptions
We are currently working on a small project to collate pre-1800 digital data-sets. One of the aims of this project is for us to act as facilitators in preserving data-sets for future academic use. We hope to collect and collate … Continue reading
Detailed occupational statistics for individual parishes in 1881 now on-line
We have just made a very large addition to the statistical content in A Vision of Britain through Time: detailed occupational structure data for each Civil Parish in England and Wales in 1881. However they are a little hard to … Continue reading
