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Category Archives: Research
Newly released occupation and industry data at the UK Data Service
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 … Continue reading
New releases of our data at the UK Data Service
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 … Continue reading
Don’t Lose Your Way
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’ … Continue reading
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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
Summer publicity
Following on from the successful launch event held for GB1900 at the beginning of July we spent mid-July attending the 17th International Conference for Historical Geographers held in the old library at the University of Warsaw in Poland. During the … 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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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
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