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This list is not exhaustive but we aim to include all of the major historical GIS websites plus additional relevant websites. Please notify Ian Gregory of any sites that you feel should be added or links that no longer work. Resources are classed under: The Great Britain Historical GIS: http://www.gbhgis.org Other online Historical GIS projects: European Communications and Transport Infrasturctures: Performance and potentials, 1825-2000: http://www.atlas-infra.eu. Maps on communications and transport in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Digital Atlas of the History of Europe since 1500: http://www.atlas-europa.de. A site that creates a visual and interactive history of the European state system since 1500. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American city: http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu. A site that very effectively maps change in St. Louis over time produced by Colin Gordon who produced a 2008 book on the same topic. Virtual Kyoto: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/cg/lt/geo/coe. A project creating a 3D representation of the history of Kyoto, Japan. The Occupational Structure of Nineteenth Century Britain: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/britain19c. A project that has used GIS extensively as part of its research. Euratlas: http://www.euratlas.com/index.html. A small business based in Switzerland specialising in georeferenced historical vector data. Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty: http://songgis.ucmercedlibrary.info A database that records the 3,828 units that existed at any time in the administrative hierarchy of China's Song dynasty (960-1276 CE); along with attributes such as population, civil and military ranks, and locations of centers of state industry. Imagining London: http://www.imagininglondon.ca. An online project exploring the social, economic and morphological dimensions of the history of London, Ontario. Mapový portál projektu Historického atlasu měst: http://maps.fsv.cvut.cz/praha/vinohrady. A Czech site giving historical maps of Prague. Peasants and Jews: Anti-Semitism and Rural Politics in Northwest Germany, 1871-1933: http://www.peasantsandjews.org. Currently under development, this site uses GIS to help with an analysis of the Mapping the Hearth Tax: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/hearthtax/projectresearch/index.html. A range of maps of the Hearth Tax of England and Wales from the 1670s and 1680s. Mapping Medieval Chester: http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk. Explores the city of Chester in the north-west of England c1200-1500 Regnum Francorum Online: http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se. Interactive maps of early medieval Europe 614-840. Covers the Frankish kingdoms of Merovingian and Carolingian Europe. Colonial Williamsburg: http://research.history.org/Digital_History_Center.cfm. Based at the Digital History Center at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, this project has a rich array of content about Williamsbug in the eighteenth century. E-Geopolis: http://www.e-geopolis.eu. This project is recording information on urban areas of 10,000 people or more from all over the world. Covers the period from 1800 to the present. Mapping Du Bois: http://www.mappingdubois.org. A project aimed at recreating the survey W.E.B. Du Bois conducted in 1896 that served as the basis for his 1899 classic, The Philadelphia Negro. Bam 3D: http://www.bam3d.org. A virtual representation of the citadel of Bam in Iran which was destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 A Tale of Two Cities: Community Differentiation in 19th Century America: http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/amst/TaleofTwoCities. A project that is comparing two small cities in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century using individual-level data. 5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study: http://www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sbranting/5thcem/5thcem.htm. An extensive school-based project looking at a cemetery in Idaho. Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A digital atlas of the new towns of Edward I: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/atlas_ahrb_2005/index.cfm. The project that built this atlas is described at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping. These sites both contain information about medieval townscapes in England and Wales. The Gough Map Online: http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/gough_map/. The Gough Map is a medieval map of the British Isles. This project has created an online version of it. Victorian Railways: An Introduction to Historical GIS: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm. A resource that uses GIS to teach history to undergraduates based on the impact of the growth of the railways on Victorian England and Wales. Vision of Britain through Time: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Information from the Great Britain Historical GIS and elsewhere put online. Staffordshire Past Track: http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk. A large GIS database of images of Staffordshire's past. The International Dunhuang Project: http://idp.bl.uk. A large project based at the British Library concerned with locating artefacts from the Silk Road in time and space. Holocaust Geography: http://geosites.evans.txstate.edu/~holocaust-geography. A site based at the University of Texas concerned with using GIS to explore the history of the Holocaust. The Valley of the Shadow Project: http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu. A large site that uses GIS to structure and represent data about two US counties around the time of the Civil War. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft. A large site that uses GIS to help structure and present data about the village of Salem, Mass. around the time of the famous witchcraft trials. Social Explorer: http://www.socialexplorer.org. A large amount of data from the US National Historical GIS put online through an easy-to-use interface. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp. A major site recording changes to US county boundaries over time. The site includes downloads of some of its material. Hosted by the Newberry Library, Chicago. North American Religion Atlas: http://www.religionatlas.org. A large amount of data on US religion available through a map-based interface. West Virginia University Laboratory of Geographical Information Science: http://ark.geo.wvu.edu/projects.html. A number of projects particularly concerned with using virtual reality techniques in historical GIS. Historical map servers and other data sources: Historical Collections on Geodata.gov: http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos. Historical geographical data from the US government. The Social Science History Association: http://www.ssha.org Software: TimeMap: http://www.timemap.net. A free GIS data viewer specifically written for people with temporal data. GIS for History: http://www.gisforhistory.org. A website that uses GIS to teach history. Aimed specifically at American schools. |
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