Category: Data stories
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Whose ships sank where?
Two centuries of shipwrecks in Europe’s seas, from Wikipedia’s lists: 106,550 wrecks placed on the map by the flag they sailed under. British ships dominate the record, but the Bay of Biscay, the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the world wars tell other stories.
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Far from home: where the Victoria Cross was won
Every Victoria Cross has two places: where the recipient was born and where the deed was done. I mapped both for 1,357 awards and measured the distance between them.
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The geography of saints
I mapped the dedications of 17,116 churches across Great Britain. Mary everywhere, Andrew first in Scotland, David second in Wales, the saints of Northumbria still in their kingdom, and 98 saints found only in Cornwall.
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What pub names remember
I grouped every named pub in Great Britain by name: 37,559 pubs and 16,349 names. Kings, coaching, railways, the arms of great families, and the local names that give a county away.
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Thankful Villages: luck or size?
About 55 parishes in England and Wales got every serviceman back from the First World War. Small parishes are nine times likelier to be on the list, but chance alone predicts hundreds more.
