Tag: medieval

• Governing on the move: where England’s kings slept

  

  Medieval government travelled with the king. I mapped King John and Edward I night by night from old printed itineraries: John moved on 42% of the days we can follow him, Edward on 23%, and Edward spent 841 nights at Westminster.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, medieval, King John, Edward I, Elizabeth I, royal progresses, itinerant kingship

• Market towns that failed: what became of the medieval markets of England and Wales?

  

  Medieval kings licensed markets in their thousands, each a bet that a village would become a town. I followed all 2,173 market places in England and Wales to today: 665 are towns, 1,168 are villages, and a few are fields or sea.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Black Death, charters, data, maps, market towns, markets, medieval, towns