Tag: Twentieth century

• Waterloo Road and the clock in the streets

  

  Victorian builders named streets after the latest victory. I mapped every UK street named after a battle: 367 Waterloos, 340 Almas, and in 53 of 75 towns the later battles lie farther from the centre. A clock in the streets, if a slow one.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Battles, Britain, cities, Commemoration, Georgian, OpenStreetMap, place names, Street names, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian, war

• Does anyone play your town?

  

  Volunteers have documented 7,615 UK concerts in MusicBrainz. I mapped every one by council area. 70 of 167 big council areas have no documented tour date, and arena towns hold 53% of them.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, games, Music, Place search, Present day, Twentieth century, UK

• Who named Antarctica? Twenty thousand place names, the nations that gave them and the people they honour

  

  I mapped 20,151 Antarctic place names by who named them, when and after whom. America and Britain named 46% of the continent, and only 3.4% of the people honoured are women.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  coast and sea, Commemoration, Naming, place names, Twentieth century, Wikidata, Women and gender, World, world maps

• Do the clocks kill?

  

  Every spring and autumn someone warns that the clock change brings more crashes. Across 9.1 million collisions in Great Britain since 1979, the week after the change looks like any other week.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Before and after test, Britain, Clocks and calendars, population, Present day, Roads, Seasons, Twentieth century, UK

• The renamed world: who changed the names of places, and why

  

  Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad, Volgograd. I read every dated official name of a place in Wikidata and found 6,842 true renamings, in waves of revolution, its undoing, war, independence and nation-building. The busiest year of all: Romania, 1964.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, borders, Classification, history, Naming, place names, Twentieth century, Wikidata, World, world maps