Tag: Long view

• There and Back Again: 2,500 years of great journeys, and how sure we are that they happened

  

  I mapped 43 great journeys from about 600 BC to 1947, out and back, and graded each by its evidence. 18 are proven and 7 are legends, and 11 of the 12 journeys after 1450 are proven against 7 of the 31 before.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Data bias, Exploration, Flow map, history, Long view, Wikipedia, World, world maps

• Bloody Place Names: do Britain’s battle names mark real battles?

  

  I measured 756 grim place names on the OS map, from Battle to Gallows Hill, against 507 recorded battles and sieges. Only Battle names reliably mark a battlefield; most of the rest are red herrings, and the Slaughters mean wet land.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Battles, Britain, Chance test, Long view, Ordnance Survey, place names, UK, war, Wikidata