Tag: Poverty and wealth

• Canal Mania: Did the Canal Towns Boom, and Do They Still Lead?

  

  England’s canal towns grew about 4.0 times over between 1801 and 1861. But they were rising before the canals came, and today they are bigger, not richer.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Census, cities, England, Georgian, history, industry, Persistence test, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Towns and cities, Transport

• Cholera 1849: low ground, bad water and a long shadow

  

  In 1849 cholera killed 14,007 people in London. I rebuilt William Farr’s elevation law and John Snow’s water evidence from their own tables, mapped every death around the Broad Street pump, and found that the worst-hit districts of 1849 are not the poorest today.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, cities, Health and disease, history, London, Persistence test, population, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Victorian

• The Roman Commuter Belt?

  

  Roman villas and today’s richest neighbourhoods both crowd into the lowland south-east. I set 617 villas against household income across England and Wales: the villa premium is real at first sight, and almost all geography.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Britain, Chance test, England, history, Persistence test, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Roman, Romans, Wales

• Ford or Bridge?

  

  Oxford waded, Cambridge built. I set every ford and bridge place-name in Britain against the 2021 census and small-area income: ford towns hold 2.6 times the people, and the typical ford place is a little richer per household too.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Census, landscape, medieval, place names, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Rivers, Towns and cities, UK