Tag: Georgian

• Crime in London, 1674 to 1913: the Old Bailey mapped

  

  197,581 trials at the Old Bailey, rebuilt from the tagged record: the gallows give way to transportation and then the prison, women fall from 36% of defendants to 10%, and a map of where the crimes were, 1674 to 1834.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, Crime and punishment, Early modern, Georgian, history, London, maps, population, Victorian, Women and gender

• Where slavery money came home

  

  When Britain ended colonial slavery it paid £20 million to the slave-owners and nothing to the people they had enslaved. I mapped 3,187 British addresses of the owners and claimants: 36% of them in London.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, buildings, cities, Empire and colonialism, Georgian, industry, London, Poverty and wealth, UK

• A day from London

  

  Leave Charing Cross at dawn and travel for twelve hours. In 1750 that reached 5% of Great Britain; in the 1830s 19%; by rail in 1850 at least 47%; in 1910 at least 72%; today 97%. I rebuilt five eras of roads and railways to map the edge of the day.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Georgian, history, London, Present day, railways, Roads, Transport, UK, Victorian

• Does a local MP get a local bonus?

  

  Parties now pick far more local candidates. Across every MP elected since 1832, being born near the seat wins about 1.3 points more of the vote, but has not made local MPs any less likely to lose.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Birthplaces, Britain, elections, Electoral results, Georgian, Parliament, political parties, Present day, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian

• Did enclosure cause the Swing riots? A test on every parish

  

  Historians have long blamed enclosure for the Swing riots of 1830. I linked every enclosure Act to 9,674 parishes and wrote the test down first: enclosed parishes rioted a little more, but the gap looks like parish size, not grievance.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Chance test, Enclosure, England, Farming, food and drink, Georgian, history, industry, landscape, Protest and riots