Tag: Long view
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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.
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The Known World
A dark world that lights up as travellers wrote it down. From 681 journeys: Europe’s recorded world covered 20% of the land in 1492 and 67% in 1900, and much of the dark had been recorded by China, the Islamic world or Polynesian voyagers first.
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When did your town last see a total eclipse?
London has seen one total eclipse of the Sun in 1,200 years. I computed every path of totality across Britain and Ireland from AD 1000 to 2200 and tested 17,103 places: for most towns the last one was in 1715 or 1724.
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Britain’s earthquakes since 1382: the big ones, the coalfield quakes and the biggest near you
I mapped all 7,032 earthquakes in the British Geological Survey’s catalogues since 1382. Britain has a magnitude 4 about every 3 years, and its busiest modern earthquake zones were coalfields.
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Ring the changes: where England’s bells hang
Dove’s Guide lists 7,262 rings of church bells hung for change ringing, 93% of them in England. I mapped them all, and found Victoria’s jubilees, two world wars and seven centuries of bell founding in the dates on the bells.
