Tag: London

• Who gets a blue plaque?

  

  I read all 1,037 English Heritage plaques listed in London and mapped 6,476 plaques across the UK. Only 16% of the people on London’s plaques are women, but 54% of those honoured since 2020.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, London, blue plaques, English Heritage, public history, women’s history, commemoration

• Cholera 1849: low ground, bad water and a long shadow

  

  In 1849 cholera killed 14,007 people in London. I rebuilt William Farr’s elevation law and John Snow’s water evidence from their own tables, mapped every death around the Broad Street pump, and found that the worst-hit districts of 1849 are not the poorest today.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  maps, data visualisation, cholera, John Snow, William Farr, London, public health, history of medicine