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Hot off the press – new articles published

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Paula

Twice in the space of two days we have been able to celebrate the successful publication of an article. On Monday we arrived back in the office to discover the Historical Methods theme issue on crowd-sourcing and citizen science had … Continue reading →

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GB1900 volunteer motivations article published

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Paula

Last week saw the online publication of our latest GB1900 offering, an article about volunteer motivations. It is based on in-depth interviews with six of our most committed volunteers together with an online survey of wider opinions which was open … Continue reading →

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New article published on potential links between coal-fired air pollution and long-term health

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Paula

We have just had a new article published in the BMJ Open journal. This article results from a collaboration with researchers at the Medical Research Council’s Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit at the University of Southampton: Evaluating the long-term consequences of air pollution … Continue reading →

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

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

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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New article on GBH GIS/”Vision of Britain” information architecture

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

An article has just appeared in the journal Historical Methods about the information architecture underlying the web site A Vision of Britain through Time: Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 2: A Geo-Spatial Ontology of Administrative Units (Historical Methods, … Continue reading →

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New publication: On Historical Gazetteers

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Humphrey Southall

This article has just been published: Humphrey Southall, Ruth Mostern and Merrick Lex Berman, “On historical gazetteers”, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Vol. 5 (2011), pages 127-145. It can be accessed online here, so long as you can … Continue reading →

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Article published on map analysis techniques

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Paula

We have written an article which has been published in the July edition of Applied Geography about some of the techniques we have used in analysing the first Land Utilisation Survey maps from the 1930s. Baily, B., Riley, M., Aucott, … Continue reading →

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Article published on developing the statistical database

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Paula

The Historical Methods journal has published an article by Humphrey on the development of our statistical database. Southall, H. (2011) ‘Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 1: Building an Indefinitely Scalable Statistical Database’ in Historical Methods: A Journal of … Continue reading →

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