Tag: Before and after test
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Cold years, witch years? Scotland’s witch panics and the Little Ice Age
Scotland accused 3,840 people of witchcraft between 1563 and 1736, 57% of them in five sudden panics. I mapped where they lived and tested whether the panics followed cold years. They did not.
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Did Detectorists start a boom?
A gentle BBC comedy is often credited with getting Britain out detecting. Twenty-two years of UK searches and Portable Antiquities Scheme finds say it made a splash, not a wave.
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Did lighthouses work?
Between 1760 and 1900 the coasts of Britain and Ireland were ringed with new lights. I counted the wrecks recorded at each spot before and after its light was lit. The wrecks came first.
