{"id":45,"date":"2013-12-18T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2014-03-10T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:52:15","slug":"19th-century-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Working with 19th-Century Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

The real power of GIS for<\/span>\u00a0the Humanities<\/span> is its ability to aid scholars in collecting, organising and analysing \u00a0information from a wide variety of source materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to demonstrate this, we are using GIS to integrate information from major online databases–including Histpop<\/a> and Bopcris<\/a> (which contain hundreds of thousands of pages of historical documents, parliamentary publications and official reports)–that will help us explore changing patterns of health, disease and mortality in England and Wales during the 19c and the early 20c.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\"RGR\"<\/a>In autumn 2014, for example, we completed an initial study that used GIS to examine the documentation of cholera epidemics in Victorian England and Wales. This study drew on the annual reports of the General Register Office for England and Wales from 1840 to 1880. To learn more about this study, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are currently\u00a0completing another case study\u00a0that concentrates on rural areas, including small towns and villages, in order to address the following questions:<\/p>\n