Ian Gregory Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities

BA: Geography (Lancaster); MSc: Geographical Information Systems (Edinburgh); PhD: Historical GIS (London)

Department of History
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YT, UK

Room: B144, Bowland
E-mail: I.Gregory@lancaster.ac.uk

I work in Digital Humanities and am particularly interested in using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with texts as well as the more traditional quantitative sources. I have used these approaches to study a range of topics from historical demography to Lake District literature. This research has been the subject of a number of major projects including the European Research Council funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places, the Leverhulme Trust funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities and, most recently, the ESRC/NSF Funded Space Time Narratives project.

Research interests:

1. The use of conventional Historical GIS techniques to study long-term change in Britain and Ireland in particular through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

2. Using GIS to explore textual sources, especially large corpora, through the combined use of geo-parsing, spatial analysis and corpus linguistics techniques.

3. Developing an understanding of what GIS has to offer to the humanities and developing the use of these technologies in disciplines including history and literary studies.

4. Using digital technologies across the humanities and social sciences to gain a better understanding of the past.

Digital Humanities:

I co-founded and co-direct Lancaster’s Digital Humanities Centre which draws together methodological expertise in fields such as spatial humanities, corpus linguistics, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, and applies them accross humanities disciplines. For more on this, including a list of the projects we are undertaking and opportunities for post-graduate study see the Digital Humanities Centre's website.

Grant funding:

I have been awarded around 25 grants, 14 of them as PI, including projects from the European Research Council, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Economic & Social Research Council and Leverhulme Trust. These have mainly been concerned with using geographical technologies to better understand the geographies of our history and culture. Recent funded projects include:

Understanding space and time in narratives through qualitative representations, reasoning and visualisation (ESRC/NSF funded)

Revealing long-term change in vegetation landscape: The English Lake District and beyond (AHRC funded)

Envisaging Landscapes and Naming Places: the Lake District before the map (British Academy funded)

Space and narrative in the Digital Humanities: A research network (AHRC funded)

Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places (ERC funded)

Geospatial Innovations in the Digital Humanities: A deep map of the English Lake District (the Leverhulme Trust)

Digging into Early Colonial Mexico: A large-scale computational analysis of 16th century historical sources (ESRC, Trans-Atlantic Platform funded)

Creating a Chronotopic Ground for the Mapping of Literary Texts: Innovative Data Visualisation and Spatial Interpretation in the Digital Medium (AHRC funded)

ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) (ESRC funded)

Newspapers, poverty and long-term change. A corpus analysis of five centuries of texts (Newby Trust funded)

Great War Lancaster: Streets of Mourning and Community Memory (Heritage Lottery Fund)

Reassembling the Republic of Letters (COST)

Troubled Geographies: Two centuries of religious division in Ireland (funded by the AHRC/ESRC's Religion & Society programme)

Mapping the Lakes (British Academy funded)

Spatial Humanities Conference:

I organised the first Spatial Humanties Conference at Lancaster in 2016. Since then we have held it biennially in 2018 (Lancaster), 2021 (Lisbon, hosted remotely due to the pandemic), and 2022 (Ghent). We will announce the venue for the 2024 conference soon.

Recent publications:

Books:

• Taylor J.E. and Gregory I.N. (2022) Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A geographical text analysis. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. See: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/deep-mapping-the-literary-lake-district/9781684483754
• "It is rare that one book can influence several disciplines. Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District is such a title. Taylor and Gregory offer a compelling case for the spatial humanities, and in the process, make valuable contributions to literary studies, geography, history, and cultural studies. A truly innovative work." (David Bodenhamer)
• "Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District will quickly become a new standard in the field of literary geography. Its spatial synthesis of aesthetics, Romanticism, sociology, history, literature, and cartography will excite scholars from across the digital-analog divide. I highly recommend the book to every scholar working in these fields, as well as any reader interested in the Lake District and its rich, layered literature and culture." (Ryan Heuser)
• "Taylor and Gregory brilliantly demonstrate how digital techniques developed for work at a wide scale can be employed for the full depth of deep mapping. The result is one of the most exciting demonstrations of the value of computational technologies in literary analysis that I've read in a long time." (James Loxley)
• A "compelling and engaging study" and "a welcome and refreshing approach to the digital humanities and an important rejoinder to its many detractors" (Eighteenth Century Studies, 2023, 53, pp. 144-6)
• Paterson L.L. and Gregory I.N. (2018) Representations of Poverty and Place: Using geographical text analysis to understand discourse. Palgrave: London.
• "... present[s] an entirely new interdisciplinary method to study geographies associated with poverty in the United Kingdom." (Language and Literature, 2020, 29, p. 467)
• "... stands out by attracting a much wider readership, inspiring geologists, statisticians, economists, linguists, and policymakers" (Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35, 2020, p. 255).
• "... a piece of coherent research that is interdisciplinary in the truest sense. ... I very much enjoyed reading this book and would heartily recommend it..." (Discourse & Communication, 14, pp. 224-5).
• "Paterson and Gregory inspire a new appreciation of working with diverse linguistic and socio-spatial data." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 24 (2019), p. 548.
• Gregory I.N., DeBats D. and Lafreniere D. (2018) The Routledge Companion to Spatial History. Routledge: London
• "From the leading scholars in the use of historical GIS methods, these valuable essays give us a clear sense of the possibilities and challenges of spatial history. This is a groundbreaking edited volume." (William G. Thomas III)
• "wide-ranging, insightful and richly-illustrated" (Nick Baron)
• Gregory I., Peniston-Bird C., Donnelly P. and Hughes M. (2017) Lancaster: Remembering 1914-18. History Press: Stroud.
• Gregory I.N. and Geddes A. (2014) Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Indiana University Press: Bloomington.
• This is reviewed in the American Historical Review: "...a splendid book, which will be read with profit by anyone who wishes to learn more about the application of the techniques, especially geographic information systems (GIS), used by the authors of the six chapters. The closing literature review by Ian N. Gregory, one of the world's leaders in the use of GIS for historical research, is worth the cost of the book for anyone creating a project of this type."
• It is also reviewed in Journal of Historical Geography and Southern Spaces.
• Gregory I.N., Cunningham N.A., Lloyd, C.D., Shuttleworth I. and Ell P.S. (2013) Troubled Geographies: A spatial history of religion and society in Ireland. Indiana University Press: Bloomington. See the accompanying website for more information.
  • The book is reviewed in Journal of Historical Geography.
• Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2007) Historical GIS: Technologies, methodologies and scholarship. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
• This has been reviewed in the Economic History Review and the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing and was discussed in Progress in Human Geography.
• Gregory I.N. (2003) A place in history: A guide to using GIS in historical research. Oxford: Oxbow Books. A second edition of this is available as a pdf. The first edition is available from AHDS History.

Journal articles:

• Gregory I.N., Smail R., Taylor J.E., and Butler J.O. (2024) “Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text: Placing tourists, travelers, and inhabitants in the English Lake District.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. See: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2369593
• Jiménez-Badillo D., Murrieta-Flores P., Martins, B., Gregory I., Favila Vazquez M. and Liceras-Garrido R. (2021) “Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth century historical documents: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14 (4). See: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/4/000490/000490.html
• Smail R., Gregory I. and Taylor J.E. (2019) “Qualitative Geographies in Digital Texts: Representing historical spatial identities in the Lake District.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 13, pp. 28-38. See: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/ijhac.2019.0229
• Chesnokova O., Taylor J.E., Gregory I.N. and Purves R.S. (2019) “Hearing the silence: Finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 33, pp. 2430-2454. See: https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2018.1552789
• Porter C., Atkinson P. and Gregory I.N. (2018) “Space and time in 100 million words: Health and disease in a nineteenth century newspaper” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 12, pp. 196-216. See: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/12/2
• Taylor J.E., Gregory I.N. and Donaldson C. (2018) “Combining close and distant reading: A multiscalar analysis of the English Lake District's historical soundscape” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 12, pp. 163-182. See: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/12/2
• Taylor J.E., Donaldson C.E., Gregory I.N. and Butler J.O. (2018) “Mapping digitally, mapping deep: Exploring digital literary geographies” Literary Geographies, 4, pp. 10-19. See: http://literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/issue/view/8
• Atkinson P., Francis B., Gregory I. and Porter C. (2017) “Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850-1910” Economic History Review, 70, pp. 1268-1290. See: DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12488
• Atkinson P. and Gregory I. (2017) “Finding child welfare in Victorian newspapers: An exercise in corpus-based discourse analysis” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48, pp. 159-186. See: DOI: 10.1162/JINH_a_01124
• Atkinson P., Francis B., Gregory I. and Porter C. (2017) “Spatial modelling of rural infant mortality and occupation in nineteenth-century Britain” Demographic Research, 36, pp. 1337-1360. See: DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.44
• Butler J.O., Donaldson C.E., Taylor J.E. and Gregory I.N. (2017) “Alts, Abbreviations, and AKAs: Historical onomastic variation and automated named entity recognition” Journal of Map and Geography Libraries, 13, pp. 58-81. See: DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2017.1307304
• Murrieta-Flores P., Donaldson C. and Gregory I.N. (2017) “GIS and Literary History: Advancing digital humanities research through the spatial analysis of historical travel writing and topographical literature” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 11(1). See: DHQ 2017 vol. 11.1
• Donaldson C., Gregory I.N., and Taylor J.E. (2017) “Implementing GIS and corpus analysis to investigate historical travel writing and topographical literature about the English Lake District” Journal of Historical Geography, 56, pp. 43-60. See: DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg/2017/01/006
• Donaldson C., Bushell S., Gregory I.N., Taylor J.E. and Rayson P. (2016) “Digital literary geography and the difficulties of locating ‘Redgauntlet Country’” Studies in Scottish Literature, 42, pp. 174-183. See: http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl
• Gregory I.N. and Cunningham N. (2016) “‘The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’?: The impact of the Great Irish Famine on Ireland's religious demography” Journal of Historical Geography, 51, pp. 76-87. See: DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2015.07.001
• Gregory I., Atkinson P., Hardie A., Joulain-Jay A., Kershaw D., Porter C., Rayson P. and Rupp C.J. (2016) “From digital resources to historical scholarship with the British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection” Journal of Siberian Federal University: Humanities and Social Sciences, 9, pp. 994-1006. See: http://journal.sfu-kras.ru/en/number/20189
• Porter C., Atkinson P. and Gregory I. (2015) “Geographical Text Analysis: A new key to nineteenth-century mortality” Health and Place, 36, pp. 25-34 . See: DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.08.010
• Donaldson C., Gregory I. and Murrieta-Flores P. (2015) “Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’: A GIS study of literary tourism in Victorian England” Journal of Victorian Culture, 20, pp. 287-307. See: DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2015.1058089
• Murrieta-Flores P., Baron A., Gregory I., Hardie A. and Rayson P. (2015) “Automatically analysing large texts in a GIS environment: The Registrar General's reports and cholera in the nineteenth century” Transactions in GIS, 19, pp. 296-320. See: DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12106
• Hastings S., Gregory I. and Atkinson P. (2015) “Explaining geographical variations in English rural infant mortality decline using place-centred reading” Historical Methods, 48, pp. 128-140. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2014.995390
• Gregory I.N., Donaldson C., Murrieta-Flores P. and Rayson P. (2015) “Geoparsing, GIS and textual analysis: Current developments in Spatial Humanities research” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 9, pp. 1-14. See: DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2015.0135
• Murrieta-Flores P. and Gregory I. (2015) “Further frontiers in GIS: Extending spatial analysis to textual sources in archaeology” Open Archaeology, 1, pp. 166-175. See DOI: 10.1515/opar-2015-0010
• Cunningham N.A. and Gregory I.N. (2014) “Hard to miss, easy to blame?: Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles” Political Geography, 40, pp. 64-78. See DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.004
• Klüsener S., Devos I., Ekamper P., Gregory I., Gruber S., Marti-Henneberg J., van Poppel F., Sliveria L. and Solli A. (2014) “Spatial inequalities in infant survival at an early stage of the longevity revolution: A pan-European view across 5000+ regions and localities in 1910” Demographic Research, 30, pp. 1849-1864. See DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.68
• Gregory I.N. (2014) “Challenges and opportunities for Digital History” Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 1, pp. 1-2. See DOI: 10.3389/fdigh.2014.00001
• Cunningham N. and Gregory I. (2013) “Religious change in twentieth century Ireland: A spatial history” Irish Geography, 45, pp. 209-233. See DOI: 10.1080/00750778.2013.835965
• Gregory I. and Cooper D. (2013) “The interdisciplinary mapping of the past: Geographical technologies, history and texts” Journal of Victorian Culture, 18, pp. 265-272. See DOI: 10.1080/13555502.2013.797686
• Mojica L., Gregory I. and Marti-Henneberg J. (2013) “A new approach to the analysis of urbanisation: The agglomerations of England and Wales (1871- 2001)” Historical Methods, 46, pp. 90-101. See DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2012.721720
• Lloyd C.D., Gregory I.N., Shuttleworth I.G.and Lilley K.D. (2012) “Exploring change in urban areas using GIS: data sources, linkages and problems” Annals of GIS, 18, pp. 71-80. See DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2011.647079
• Cooper D. and Gregory I.N. (2011) “Mapping the English Lake District: A literary GIS” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36, pp. 89-108. See DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00405.x. This is reviewed by B. Sacks in Geography Directions, 22/1/11, which states: The beauty of Cooper and Gregory’s research lies …in the sweeping potential their work signifies in GIS usability. With appropriate interpretation of qualitative sources, many global history texts can be visualised from a host of different parametres, including (but by no means limited to) literature, scientific advancement, economic and social development, and revolution and reform. The paper was also re-printed in a virtual edition of Transactions of the IBG on “The Geographical Imagination”(August 2011, edited by S. Daniels) which “...selects landmark papers from the history of Transactions, the first from 1955, the most recent from 2011.” The introductory essay to this collection states “‘Mapping the English Lake District’ considers GIS as a tool to re-frame nineteenth century literary landscape descriptions in a way which reveals geographical imaginations of the time… [I]t is a sign of the subject’s recent, resurgent appeal for the humanities and social sciences more broadly”
• DeBats D.A. and Gregory I.N. (2011) “Historical GIS and the study of urban history” Social Science History, 35, pp.457-463. See DOI: 10.1215/01455532-1381814
• Gregory I.N. and Hardie A. (2011) “Visual GISting: Bringing together corpus linguistics and Geographical Information Systems” Literary and Linguistic Computing, 26, pp. 297-314. See DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqr022
• Schwartz R.M., Gregory I.N. and Thevinin T. (2011) “Spatial History: Railways, Uneven Development, and Population Change in France and Great Britain, 1850-1914” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 42(1), pp. 53-88. See DOI: 10.1162/JINH_a_00205
• Gregory I.N., Kunz A. and Bodenhamer D.J. (2011) “A place in Europe: Enhancing European collaboration in Historical GIS” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 5, pp. 23-39. See DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2011.0019
• Gregory I.N. and Cooper D. (2011) “GIS, Texts and Images: New Approaches”Poetess Archive Journal, 2(1). See http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/article/view/20
• Gregory I.N. and Marti Henneberg J. (2010) “The railways, urbanisation, and local demography in England and Wales, 1825-1911” Social Science History, 24, pp. 199-228. See DOI: 10.1215/01455532-2009-025
• Gregory I.N., Marti Henneberg J. and Tapiador F.J. (2010) “Modelling long-term pan-European population change from 1870 to 2000 using Geographical Information Systems” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 173, pp. 31-50. See DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00598.x
• Gregory I.N. and Cooper D. (2009) “Thomas Gray, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geographical Information Systems: A Literary GIS of Two Lake District Tours” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 3, pp. 61-84. See DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2009.0009
• Gregory I.N. and Schwartz R.M. (2009) “National Historical Geographical Information Systems as a tool for historical research: Population and railways in Wales, 1841-1911” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 3, pp. 143-161. See DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2009.0013
• Gregory I.N. (2009) “Forum: Is GIS changing historical scholarship” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 3, pp. 61-84. See DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2009.0003
• Gregory I.N. (2009) “Comparisons between the geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s to 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics” British Medical Journal, 339: b3454, pp. 676-679. See DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b3454. I was interviewed about this on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme on the 11th Sept. 2009.
• Dunning A., Gregory I., and Hardie A. (2009) “Freeing up digital content with text mining: New research means new licenses” Serials, 22, pp. 166-173. DOI: 10.1629/22166
• Norman P., Gregory I., Dorling D. and Baker A. (2008) “Geographical trends in infant mortality in England and Wales, 1971-2006” Health Statistics Quarterly, 40, pp. 18-29. Available here.
• Gregory I.N. (2008) “Different places, different stories: Infant mortality decline in England & Wales, 1851-1911” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98, pp. 773-794. DOI: 10.1080/00045600802224406. This paper is discussed by Mayhew (2010) in Progress in Human Geography.
• Gregory I.N. and Healey R.G. (2007) “Historical GIS: Structuring, mapping and analysing geographies of the past” Progress in Human Geography, 31, pp. 638-653. DOI: 10.1177/0309132507081495
• Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2006) “Error sensitive historical GIS: Identifying areal interpolation errors in time series data” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 20, pp. 135-152. DOI: 10.1080/13658810500399589
• Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2005) “Analysing spatio-temporal change using national historical GISs: Population change during and after the Great Irish Famine” Historical Methods, 38, pp. 149-167. DOI: 10.3200/HMTS.38.4.149-167
• Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2005) “Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 168, pp. 419-437. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00356.x
• Ell P.S. and Gregory I.N. (2005) “Demography, depopulation and devastation: Exploring the Geography of the Irish Potato Famine” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 54-75. Available here.
• Gregory I.N. (2005) “The Great Britain Historical GIS” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 132-134. Available here.
• Gregory I.N., Kemp, K. and Mostern R. (2003) “Geographical Information and historical research: Current progress and future directions” History and Computing, 13, pp. 7-21.
• Gregory I.N., Bennett, C., Gilham, V.L. and Southall H.R. (2002) “The Great Britain Historical GIS: From maps to changing human geography” The Cartographic Journal, 39, pp. 37-49.
• Gregory I.N. (2002) “Time variant databases of changing historical administrative boundaries: A European comparison” Transactions in GIS, 6, pp. 161-178. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9671.00103. In November 2010 this was listed as one of the journal highlights.
• Gregory I.N. (2002) “The accuracy of areal interpolation techniques: Standardising 19th and 20th century census data to allow long-term comparisons” Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 26, pp. 293-314. DOI: 10.1016/S0198-9715(01)00013-8
• Congdon P., Campos R.M., Curtis S.E., Southall H.R., Gregory I.N., and Jones I.R. (2001) “Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s” International Journal of Population Geography, 7, pp. 35-51. DOI: 10.1002/ijpg.203  
• Gregory I.N., Dorling D. and Southall H.R. (2001) “A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardised geographical units” Area, 33, pp. 297-311. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4762.00033
• Gregory I.N. (2000) “Longitudinal analysis of age and gender specific migration patterns in England and Wales: A GIS-based approach” Social Science History, 24, pp. 471-503. Available here.

Book chapters:

• Taylor J.E., Donaldson C. And Gregory I.N. (2023) “Mapping the nineteenth century sublime” in Duffy C. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Sublime. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 236-250
• Taylor J.E. and Gregory I.N. (2021) “Creating a Literary GIS of the English Lake District” in Research Methods: Primary Sources. Adam Matthews: Marlborough. See: https://doi.org/10.47594/RMPS_0206
• Gregory I.N. and Paterson L.L. (2020) “English language and history: Geographical representations of poverty in historical newspapers” in Adolphs S. and Knight D. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook for English Language and Digital Humanities. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 418-439.
• Baker H., Gregory I., Hartmann D. and McEnery T. (2019) “Applying Geographical Information Systems to researching historical corpora: Seventeenth-century prostitution” in Mahlberg M. and Wiegand V. (eds.) Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 109-136.
• Gregory I., Donaldson C. and Taylor J. (2019) “Landscape appreciation in the English Lake District: A GIS approach” in Coomans T., Cattoor B. and De Jonge K. (eds.) Mapping Landscapes in Transformation: Multidisciplinary methods for historical analysis. Leuven University Press: Leuven, pp. 277-299. See: https://lup.be/products/109465
• Gregory I., Tessier A., Urbánek V., and Whelan R. with Grover C., Martins B., Moreau Y., Murrieta-Flores P., and Porter C. (2019) “Geographies of the Republic of Letters” in Hotson H. and Wallnig T. (eds.) Reassembling the Republic of Letters: Systems, standards, scholarship. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press. pp. 315-341. DOI: doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1146
• Gregory I.N., Donaldson C., Hardie A. and Rayson P. (2018) “Modelling space and time in historical texts” in Flanders J. and Jannidis F. (eds.) Data Modelling in the Digital Humanities. Routledge: London, pp. 133-149
• Gregory I. and Peniston-Bird C. (2018) “The Second Battle of Ypres and a Northern English Town: Digital Humanities and the First World War” in Gregory I.N., DeBats D. and Lafreniere D. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Spatial History. Routledge: London. pp. 567-586
• DeBats D., Gregory I.N. and Lafreniere D. (2018) “Introduction: Spatial History, History and GIS” in Gregory I.N., DeBats D. and Lafreniere D. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Spatial History. Routledge: London. pp. 1-6
• Murrieta-Flores P. and Gregory I. (2018) “Cruzando fronteras en Humanidades Digitales: Análisis Geográfico de Textos de interés histórico y arqueológico con Sistemas de Información Geográfica” in Jiménez-Badillo D. (ed.) Arqueología Computacional. Nuevos enfoques para el análisis y la difusión del patrimonio cultural. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Mexico City. pp. 199-211
• Donaldson C., Gregory I.N. and Taylor J.E. (2016) “Implementing corpus analysis and GIS to examine historical accounts of the English Lake District” in Bol P. (ed.) Historical Atlas. North-East Asian History Foundation: Seoul, pp. 153-172.
• Gregory I. and Murrieta-Flores (2016) “Geographical Information Systems as a tool for exploring the spatial humanities” in Crompton C., Lane R.J. and Siemens R. (eds.) Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, training, research. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 177-192.
• Gregory I. and Donaldson C. (2016) “Geographical Text Analysis: Digital cartographies of Lake District literature” in Cooper D., Donaldson C.D. and Murrieta-Flores P. (eds.) Literary Mapping in the Digital Age. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 67-87.
• Gregory I., Cooper D., Hardie A., and Rayson P. (2015). “Spatializing and analysing digital texts: Corpora, GIS and places” in Bodenhamer D., Corrigan J. and Harris T. (eds.) Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, pp. 150-178.
• Gregory I.N. and Geddes A. (2014) “From Historical GIS to Spatial Humanities: Deepening scholarship and broadening technology” in Gregory I.N. and Geddes A. (eds.) Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, pp. ix-xix
• Gregory I.N. and Geddes A. (2014) “From Historical GIS to Spatial Humanities: Challenges and opportunities” in Gregory I.N. and Geddes A. (eds.) Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, pp. 172-185
• Gregory I.N.(2014) “From Historical GIS to Spatial Humanities: An evolving literature” in Gregory I.N. and Geddes A. (eds.) Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, pp. 186-202
• Ell P.S., Cunningham N. and Gregory I.N. (2014) “No spatial watershed: Religious geographies of Ireland pre- and post-Famine” in Corporaal M., Cusak C., Janssen L. and van den Beuken R., (eds.) Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 197-224
• Bodenhamer D.J. and Gregory I.N. (2011) “Teaching spatial literacy and spatial technologies in the Digital Humanities” in Unwin D.J, Foote K.E, Tate N.J. and DiBiase D. (eds.) Teaching Geographical Information Science and Technology in Higher Education. John Wiley: Chichester, pp. 231-246
• Schwartz R.M., Gregory I.N. and Marti Henneberg J. (2011) “History and GIS: Railways, population change, and agricultural development in late nineteenth century Wales” in Dear M., Ketchum J., Luria S. and Richardson D. (eds.) GeoHumanities: Art, history, text at the edge of place. Routledge: Abingdon. pp. 251-266. This volume is reviewed in the New York Times
• Gregory I.N. (2010) “Time and space, history and geography, humanities and GIS: Creating a coherent approach” in Bodenhamer D.J., Corrigan J. and Harris T.M. (eds.) The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the future of humanities scholarship. Indiana University Press: Bloomington. pp. 58-75
• Gregory I.N. (2008) “Using Geographical Information Systems to explore space and time in the humanities” in Greengrass M. and Hughes L. (eds.) The Virtual Representation of the Past. Ashgate: Aldershot. pp. 135-146
• Gregory I.N. (2008) “‘A map is just a bad graph:’ Why spatial statistics are important in historical GIS” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Placing History: How maps, spatial data and GIS are changing historical scholarship. ESRI Press: Redlands CA. pp. 123-149
• Campos R.M., Congdon P., Curtis S.E., Gregory I.N., Jones I.R. and Southall H.R. (2004) “Locality level mortality and socio-economic change in Britain since 1920: First steps towards analysis of infant mortality variation” In Boyle P., Curtis S.E., Graham E., and Moore E. (eds.) The Geography of Health Inequalities in the Developed World. Ashgate: Aldershot. pp. 53-75
• Gregory I.N. and Southall, H.R. (2002) “Mapping British population history” In Knowles, A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA., pp. 117-130.
• Gregory I.N., Southall H.R. and Dorling D. (2000) “A century of poverty in England & Wales, 1898-1998: A geographical analysis” In Bradshaw J. and Sainsbury R. (eds.) Researching Poverty. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 130-159
• Gregory I.N. and Southall H.R. (2000) “Spatial frameworks for historical censuses – the Great Britain Historical GIS”. In Hall P.K., McCaa R. and Thorvaldsen G. (eds.) Handbook of Historical Microdata for Population Research. Minnesota Population Center: Minneapolis, pp. 319-333

Conference proceedings and other publications:

• Gregory, I. (2022) “Review - Recogito: Semantic annotation without the pointy brackets” Early Modern Digital Review, 4, pp.243-249. See: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/emdr
• Reinhold A., Gregory I. and Rayson P. (2018) “Deep mapping Tarn Hows: Automated generation of 3D historic landscapes” in Sablatnig R. and Wimmer M. (eds.), Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage. The Eurographics Association, Congress Visual Heritage, Vienna, Austria, 12 November 2018. See: https://doi.org/10.2312/gch.20181366
• Rayson P., Reinhold A., Butler J., Donaldson C., Gregory I. and Taylor J. (2017) “A deeply annotated testbed for geographical text analysis” Proceedings of ACM SigSpatial Workshop on GeoSpatial Humanities, Redondo Beach, California, November 2017, pp. 9-15. See: ACM Digital Library
• Donaldson C., Murrieta-Flores P. and Gregory I. (2016) “Distant readings of the geographies in text corpora: Mapping Norman Nicholson’s poems and letters.” In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Digital Humanities in Luxembourg with a Special Focus on Reading Historical Sources in the Digital Age. Vol. 1681. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Aachen: CEUR-WS.org. See: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1681
• Do, T.V., Cheverst K. and Gregory I. (2015)“LoMAK: A framework for generating Locative Media Apps from KML files” Engineering Interactive Computer Systems ’14 pp. 211-216. See: DOI: 10.1145/2607023.2610270
• Porter C., Atkinson P. and Gregory I. (2015) “Combining statistics and texts using GIS: 19th century health reports” In Malleson N., Addis N., Durham H., Heppenstall A., Lovelace R., Norman P. and Oldroyd R. (eds.) GISRUK 2015 Proceedings, pp. 492-499. See: DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1491375
• Gregory I. (2015) Book Review of: J. Bonnell & M. Fortin “Historical GIS Research in Canada” (University of Calgary Press: Calgary) The Public Historian, 37, pp. 148-150
• Rupp C.J., Rayson P., Gregory I., Hardie A., Joulain A., and Hartmann D. (2014) “Dealing with heterogeneous big data when geoparsing historical corpora,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Big Data. pp. 80-83. DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2014.7004457
• Gregory I.N. and Knowles A.K. (2011) Using GIS to understand space and time in the social, behavioural and economic sciences: A white paper. See: http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/submission_detail.cfm?upld_id=78
• Gregory I. (2010) “Time-enabled Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a humanities research infrastructure in Europe” HERA Conference Report: 4th HERA Annual Conference, European diversities – European Identities, 1st European Conference for Collaborative Humanities Research. IREG: Strasbourg, p. 15. See: http://www.heranet.info/system/files/d5.4.1_hera_2008_conference_report_-_glossy_version.pdf
• Gregory I.N. (2009) “Text, images and statistics: Integrating data and approaches using geospatial computing” Proceedings of the 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, pp. 180-183. DOI: 10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407966
• Gregory I.N. (2008) “Position Paper: What can GIS offer World History?” History Compass Theory and Methods Blog
• Gregory I.N. (2005) “Creating analytic results from historical GIS” Humanities, Computers and Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the XVIth international conference of the Association of History and Computing. Royal Netherlands Academy of the Arts and Sciences: Amsterdam
• Ell P.S. and Gregory I.N. (2001) “The Great Britain Historical GIS Project: Current progress and future prospects.” In Proceedings of the 2001 PNC Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, Hong Kong. Computing Centre, Academia Sinica: Taiwan
• Gregory I.N. (2000) “The use of areal interpolation to explore long-term demographic change” In GeoComputation 2000: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on GeoComputation. GeoComputation CD-ROM: Manchester

Journal editions:

• Gregory I.N., Donaldson C., Murrieta-Flores P. and Rayson P. (2015, eds.) International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 9(1). Special issue on “Spatial Humanities.” See the IJHAC website.
• DeBats D. and Gregory I.N. (2011, eds.) Social Science History, 35(4). Special issue on “Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History.” See the Social Science History website.

Media interest:

• Interviewed on Radio 4's Today Programme on 11/9/09 regarding my British Medical Journal paper on long-term health inequalities.
• Our British Academy funded work on Lake District literature was written up in the Westmorland Gazette (6/8/08) and David Cooper, the project RA, was interviewed about it on Radio Cumbria.
• My work on Lancaster in the First World War (with Corinna Peniston-Bird) has attracted a wide range of media interest from newspapers, radio, TV and online. These include:
  Lancaster Guardian (6/2/14)
  Virtual-Lancaster.net (10/2/14)
  Lancashire Evening Post (12/2/14)
  Lancaster Guardian (13/2/14)
  BBC Radio Lancashire (20/5/14)
  BBC Online (21/5/14)
  BBC North-West Tonight (27/5/14)
  Lancaster Guardian (29/5/14). This was a full-page spread under the title “New history project maps out the toll of bereavement on city’s streets.” (p. 10)
  Lancaster Guardian (19/6/14)
  The Bay FM (28/6/14)
  The Bay FM (31/7/14)
  The Bay FM (4/8/14)

Keynote and plenary presentations:

• Mapping 'Post-Conflict' Cities', Berlin, (20/10/22)
• CounterVoices: Spatial modernities conference, York 13/5/21 (presented remotely)
• Space and Time Conference 2019, Pisa, Italy (26/6/19)
• What's on the map? CLARIAH-Benelux Workshop on Geospatial and Semantic Web Technologies, Ghent, Belgium (11/6/19)
• Nineteenth Century Matters, Lancaster (29/5/19)
• Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transformation (with Drs C. Donaldson and J. Taylor), Leuven, Belgium (24/11/17)
• Clarin 2016, Aix-en-Provence, France (26/10/16) “Texts, language and geography: Understanding literature using geographical text analysis”
• British Association for Victorian Studies, BAVS talk, University of Sussex, UK (16/5/16) “Digital Approaches to Understanding Lake District literature”
• Digital Humanities, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (22/9/15) “Spatial Humanities: Using digital technologies to understand the geographies within texts”
• DF McKenzie Bi-Annual Lecture, Australasian Summer School, Victoria University Wellington/Alexander Turnbull National Library of New Zealand (28/1/15) “Mapping texts: Using GIS to understand the geographies in large textual collections.”
• Practical Applications of Language Corpora, Lodz, Poland (21/11/14) “Mapping corpora: Approaches to understanding the geographies in texts.”
• Launch event for the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership, Manchester, UK (1/10/14) “New Challenges in the Arts and Humanities.”
• Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Methods, Lancaster, UK (17/7/14) “Using corpus data in Geographical Information Systems”
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (31/7/13) “Towards Spatial Humanities: Using GIS to map and analyse the geographies within texts.”
• Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Methods, Lancaster, UK (16/7/13) “Bringing together corpus linguistics and GIS: Understanding the geographies in texts”
• HiCor 2013, Oxford, UK (28/2/13) “From Texts to Mapping: Understanding the geographies in historical corpora.”
• ACUMEN (Assembly for Comparative Urbanisation and the Material Environment), Leeds, UK (12/12/13) “Using Textual Sources within a GIS to Explore Urban (and Other) Trends.”
• LENS “Mapping People” Symposium, Redlands, California (31/10/12) “GIS and Texts: New approaches to understanding the geographies of the past.”
• Spatial Narratives and Deep Maps: Explorations in Advanced Geo-spatial Technologies and the Spatial Humanities, Indianapolis, Indiana (19/6/12) “Deep maps, spatial narratives, and quantitative and qualitative scholarship in the humanities”
• Eurel Conference, Manchester, UK (26/10/12) “Long-term religious change and stability in Ireland: A geographical analysis.”
• Text Encoding Initiative Members Meeting, Zadar, Croatia (13/11/10) “Censuses, literature and newspapers: Integrating sources and scholarship using GIS.”
• Summer School Lecture at Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School, Dublin, Ireland (1/7/10) “Space: A neglected frontier. Geographical Information Systems and text.”
• GIS in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (9/10/09) “Censuses, literature and newspapers: quantitative and qualitative approaches to studying the past with GIS.”
• 4th Annual Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Conference and 1st European Conference for Collaborative Humanities Research (8/10/08) “Time-enabled GIS as a Humanities research infrastructure for Europe.”

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