Tag: Poverty and wealth

• Where party money lives

  

  I mapped every donation to a UK party from a company, union or other organisation since 2001 by the donor’s address. 59% of the money came from London, and a quarter from one constituency.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, elections, industry, London, political parties, Poverty and wealth, Present day, UK

• 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.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Asia, history, industry, Long view, maps, population, Poverty and wealth, World, world maps

• Did the Pits Closing Still Show?

  

  196 deep mines were working in Britain at the start of 1984, and 167 had closed by 1994. Forty years on, the pit towns of England and Wales have 2.0 points more adults long-term sick than similar towns, whenever their pit closed.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Census, Health and disease, history, industry, Persistence test, population, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Twentieth century, UK

• Captain Swing: did the riots follow the machines?

  

  In 1830 English farm labourers smashed threshing machines. Using Caprettini and Voth’s open data I mapped 3,117 Swing incidents: parishes with a recorded machine were twice as likely to riot, but 90% of riotous parishes had no machine at all.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Chance test, Enclosure, England, Farming, food and drink, Georgian, history, industry, Poverty and wealth, Protest and riots

• Did Beeching Kill Your Town?

  

  3,331 railway stations closed in Britain between 1955 and 1975, and 643 towns in England and Wales lost every one. Size for size, they are a little poorer and more car-bound today, but they did not fall off a cliff.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Census, cities, history, industry, Persistence test, population, Poverty and wealth, Present day, railways, Transport, Twentieth century, UK