Maps: July 2011 Archives

A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research

By Ian Gregory. Introductory info about GIS, methods of acquiring and converting data for inclusion, basic GIS functionality, representing time in GIS, producing maps from GIS, spatial analysis of statistical data, qualitative data in GIS, and the History Data Service, a repository for historical GIS data.

A vision of Britain through time

Historical maps, historical travel writing, historical statistics depicting Britain's evolution between 1801 and 2001.