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  • Reinterpreting space: mapping people and relationships in late medieval and early modern English cities using GIS

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  • Justin Colson
  • Journal:
    Urban History / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / August 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 April 2020, pp. 384-400

  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly popular in historical research, especially in urban contexts. However, digitizing historical sources in a way that can be mapped using the Cartesian co-ordinate systems of a GIS is often challenging, especially so in the case of records pre-dating centralized property registers or street numbering. This article explores how the vernacular spatial descriptions used in several case-studies of documents from late medieval and early modern London can be translated and geocoded into GIS compatible co-ordinates in a sympathetic way. Translating this data from a historical spatial paradigm into a modern one unlocks a whole range of new insights into spatial patterns, networks and relationships which would not have been feasible to construct using traditional methods

  • Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500–1800

  • Patrick Wallis, Justin Colson, David Chilosi
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Economic History / Volume 78 / Issue 3 / September 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 August 2018, pp. 862-903
    Print publication:
    September 2018

  • Structural transformation is a key indicator of economic development. We present the first time series of male labor sectoral shares for England and Wales before 1800, using a large sample of probate and apprenticeship data to produce national- and county-level estimates. England experienced a rapid decline in the share of workers in agriculture between the early seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, associated with rising agricultural and especially industrial productivity; Wales saw few changes. Our results show that England experienced unusually early structural change and highlight the mid-seventeenth century as a turning point.