Researchers have unveiled a new interactive map that reveals London’s social history in unprecedented detail, enabling users to explore everything from the world’s first gay scene to eighteenth century riots.Locating London’s Past is a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital’s past, revolutionising our understanding of London’s history. The website is the first to map information from a vast array of sources, covering:
• crime and punishment
• the distribution of wealth, poverty and occupations
• the ownership of consumer goods
• mortality
Using the new website, people are now able to explore fully geo-referenced detail using Google maps technology to reveal the distribution of crimes, wealth and poverty, mortality, archaeological finds, voting records and much more.
See how historical data can illuminate life in eighteenth century London and find out more about the project: http://www.locatinglondon.org/.
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