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Tag Archives: A Vision of Britain through Time
Planned maintenance: Tuesday 3rd October
Our website, A Vision of Britain through Time, will be down for maintenance next Tuesday (3rd October). We aim to complete the work before the end of the day. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Planned maintenance: Thursday 23rd February
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 … Continue reading
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
Planned maintenance: Thursday 10th November
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. … 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
Website issues
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 … Continue reading
New travel writer: William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye
We have just added another book to our collection of historical British travel writing, William Gilpin’s Observations of the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales (London: Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1800), describing journeys along the whole length … Continue reading
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New article on GBH GIS/”Vision of Britain” information architecture
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
A page we don’t want you to see …
Touch wood, we have sorted out the problem that caused the new site to crash just a couple of days after it went live, but there will inevitably continue to be occasional “outages” — and Murphy’s Law specifies that they … Continue reading
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New Expert Search for “places”
This is the first of a series of posts about new features in the site we launched last week. In the previous version of A Vision of Britain through Time, the Expert Search page just linked to various other pages … Continue reading
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