Tag Archives: administrative units

New Expert Search for “places”

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

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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SSHA Conference 2011

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Paula

Humphrey Southall attended the 36th Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, “Generation to Generation”, this year held in Boston, Massachusetts on 17th-20th November. He participated in various sessions including organizing the two Geographical Frameworks for World History sessions, … 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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Hundreds more places added

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Humphrey Southall

Another 650 or so “places” have just been added to A Vision of Britain. The majority are based on ecclesiastical parishes, and with the exception of the City of London parishes the only “unplaced” ecclesiastical parishes left are in Cheshire, … Continue reading →

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