Tag: war

• 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

  Britain, cities, place names, war

• HMS Your Town: which British towns have had a warship named after them?

  

  I matched every Royal Navy ship in Wikidata to the British towns they are named after: 394 ships for 135 towns. Gloucester and Newcastle have had nine each; Lancaster four; Barrow none.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, coast and sea, war

• The star fort belt: how the bastion spread around the world

  

  I mapped 1,307 star forts in ink, from Palmanova to Hakodate. Only 19% can be dated, but the dates tell a clear story: the bastion did not creep out of Italy, it sailed, reaching India, Morocco and the Caribbean as early as Germany and England.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  buildings, history, war, world maps

• Roundhead or Cavalier, Leave or Remain?

  

  Seats on the Danelaw side of Alfred and Guthrum’s line voted Leave by 6.9 points more. Compared like with like, the gap is -0.2. Counties whose members sided with the King: a small, fragile link the other way.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Brexit, Britain, elections, history, war

• The war dead and the rise of Labour: did the places that lost most men turn left?

  

  I set the names on Britain’s First World War memorials against every election from 1906 to 1924. Places with more names swung less to Labour, not more.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, elections, history, political parties, war