Tag: Monarchy

• 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

  Animated timeline, Britain, Early modern, England, Government, history, medieval, Monarchy, Text mining

• What’s the king on your postbox?

  

  OpenStreetMap’s volunteers have read the royal cypher on 61,435 UK post boxes. 3,614 still carry Victoria’s VR, 143 the cypher of Edward VIII, and the mix on a town’s streets says something about when it was built.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, cities, history, Monarchy, OpenStreetMap, Place search, Present day, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian

• Where are Britain’s oldest trees?

  

  I mapped the 1,626 notable trees on OpenStreetMap. Oaks dominate, yews hug the old churches, a few giants stand in the old royal forests, and the map shows the mappers as much as the trees.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, landscape, Monarchy, OpenStreetMap, Present day, religion, Trees and woodland, UK, Wikidata, wildlife

• What pub names remember

  

  I grouped every named pub in Great Britain by name: 37,559 pubs and 16,349 names. Kings, coaching, railways, the arms of great families, and the local names that give a county away.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Business names, Classification, food and drink, Monarchy, OpenStreetMap, place names, Present day, UK