Tag: Animated timeline

• The renamed world: who changed the names of places, and why

  

  Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad, Volgograd. I read every dated official name of a place in Wikidata and found 6,842 true renamings, in waves of revolution, its undoing, war, independence and nation-building. The busiest year of all: Romania, 1964.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, borders, Classification, history, Naming, place names, Twentieth century, Wikidata, World, world maps

• The Wealth of Nations, Mapped

  

  The world economy on one map you can play, from 10,000 BC to 2024. China and India made 45% of the world’s output in 1820, 9% in 1950 and 30% in 2024, and the further back you go the more of the map is guesswork.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Asia, history, industry, Long view, maps, population, Poverty and wealth, World, world maps

• Governing on the move: where England’s kings slept

  

  Medieval government travelled with the king. I mapped King John and Edward I night by night from old printed itineraries: John moved on 42% of the days we can follow him, Edward on 23%, and Edward spent 841 nights at Westminster.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Animated timeline, Britain, Early modern, England, Government, history, medieval, Monarchy, Text mining

• The Conquest in Castles

  

  I mapped 3,288 Norman-type castle sites across Britain. Only 113 carry a date from 1066 to 1199, and they show a castle frontier that leapt across England within a few years of Hastings.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Animated timeline, Britain, buildings, Castles, Domesday Book, medieval, Norman Conquest, UK, Wales, war, Wikidata