Tag: Second World War

• Bombs on Britain: where the air raids killed

  

  I counted all 61,542 civilians on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Second World War roll for the UK, town by town. 51% of them died outside London, and the story starts with the shelling of Hartlepool in 1914.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, Second World War, Remembrance, First World War, air raids, the Blitz, Zeppelin

• Britain’s last line of defence: the pillboxes and stop lines of 1940

  

  I mapped 14,690 wartime defences recorded by Defence of Britain volunteers. The planned German landing beaches had 2.3 times the average density of defence, and 71% of sites with a known condition were still standing.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data visualisation, Defence of Britain, heritage, maps, Operation Sea Lion, pillboxes, Second World War, stop lines