Category: Data stories
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Dale, Down, Fell and Beck
Brook in the south, beck in the north, burn in the Borders. I mapped every named stream, valley and hill in Britain to find where the lines fall, how sharp they are, and whether they follow the Vikings.
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Is Domesday Destiny?
In 1086 the Conqueror’s commissioners counted England’s households, village by village. I set every place they named against the 2021 census: size then barely predicts size now.
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The Famous Few
Britain and Ireland have 4,147 hillforts. Eleven of them take half of all Wikipedia reading. A data study of which ancient sites get attention, and why: size, castles, archaeologists and editors.
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The High Ones
The Brigantes of northern England and the Brigantium of A Coruña share a name. A data history of the Celtic word for ‘high’, from -briga hillforts to burg, borough and Berg, and what it says about a Galicia–Yorkshire connection.
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Rings in the Rock
4,584 carved rocks and one shared sign. A data history of cup-and-ring carvings on Europe’s Atlantic edge: when they were made, where they are, the maths of a ring, and what the ancient DNA says about who carved them.
