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Mapping William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
For this mapping assignment I chose a short story called William Wilson, written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was published in 1839 and tells us a
Marthe Cuvelier
Dec 11, 20179 min read

Three Men in a Boat, on a Map
Jerome K Jerome’s short story Three Men in A Boat was published in 1889. It was originally intended to be a travel guide, but it soon became
Autumn Barlow
Nov 24, 20176 min read

Locating Pride and Prejudice
For this mapping project I set out to explore the differences between the paths female and male characters take in Pride and Prejudice. Afte
Emily Butt
Dec 14, 20164 min read

Beholding Shelley’s Euganean Hills
This is a map of Percy Shelley’s ‘Lines Written among the Euganean Hills’ (1818). There are two layers to this map. The first plots all the
Rebekah Musk
Dec 1, 20164 min read

Mapping Pride and Prejudice
Using Google MyMaps, I explored how gender in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice could be mapped, as well as the limitations when trying to map so
Lex Elliott
Dec 1, 20165 min read

Prospects for using the digital humanities in demographic history
Paul Atkinson On Monday 28 November 2016 the Spatial Humanities project held a meeting of invited experts from around the world to...
Paul Atkinson
Nov 30, 20165 min read

Corpus Linguistics, and why you might want to use it, despite what (you think) you know about it
Amelia Joulain-Jay, a PhD candidate in History at Lancaster, has written this blog post for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Joanna Taylor
Sep 26, 20161 min read


Reading and mapping Swallows and Amazons
On July 24 this year, the new film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s children’s classic Swallows and Amazons (first published in 1930, and set
Joanna Taylor
Sep 13, 20165 min read
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