Tag: industry
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Who owns your street?
90,949 property titles in England and Wales are held by companies incorporated abroad. I mapped them for every small area: 76% are held from Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, the BVI and the UK’s other islands and territories.
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Lost money: Roman coins found in England, reign by reign
275,206 Roman coins recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, mapped district by district and reign by reign. The coin curve is the classic one. The map of it is a step, not a slope.
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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.
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Where party money lives
I mapped every donation to a UK party from a company, union or other organisation since 2001 by the donor’s address. 59% of the money came from London, and a quarter from one constituency.
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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.
