Tag: Twentieth century

• Does the 1974 border still show?

  

  I mapped every business in OpenStreetMap named after Lancashire or Yorkshire. My planned main test, in the places that left Yorkshire, could not be answered. But the old border is sharp where it did not move, and the Lancashire name thins in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  borders, Britain, Business names, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day, Twentieth century

• Born and bred? How local are MPs, 1832 to 2024

  

  Where 10,094 MPs were born, set against the seats they won. For 170 years about a quarter were born in their seat’s county; since 2010 that has climbed to 41.9%.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Birthplaces, Britain, elections, history, Parliament, population, Present day, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian, Wikidata

• Who is your town twinned with?

  

  I drew all 29,437 twin town and sister city links on Wikidata as arcs on one map: a post-war European habit that peaked in 1990, reached across the Iron Curtain and out to Japan and China, and lost dozens of Russian links after 2022.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Europe, Flow map, Government, Place search, Town twinning, Twentieth century, Wikidata, World

• Mentioned in the House: which places does Parliament talk about?

  

  A century of Hansard, counted place by place: 297,134 Commons mentions of UK towns and cities since 1909, which places punch above their weight, and who names your constituency.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Hansard, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Text mining, Twentieth century, UK

• Who won here? Every UK general election since 1832 on one map

  

  All 49 UK general elections from 1832 to 2024 on one map: 31,736 seats, the forgotten uncontested elections, the Liberal fall, the four nations and the Red Wall.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, elections, Electoral results, Georgian, history, maps, Parliament, political parties, Present day, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian