Mastodawn

For lovers of maps and/or Victorian history, I wrote up some notes about exploring georeferenced maps from the State Library of Victoria. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/12/exploring-georeferenced-maps-from-the.html #localHistory #spatialHistory #ozHist

Exploring georeferenced maps from the SLV collection

I’m in the process of tying up all the documentation …

WerkstattGeschichte Sep 30

NEU: #WerkstattGeschichte 92
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#Werkstatt: Daniel Gerster stellt Ansätze vor, wie die #Raumgeschichte einen gewinnbringenden Beitrag zur #Zeitgeschichte des bundesdeutschen #Rechtsextremismus leisten kann:

▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-92-daniel-gerster

@histodons

#Histodons #ExtremeRight #ExtremeRechte #SpatialHistory #ContemporaryHistory #GermanHistory #SpatialTurn #Raumaneignung #Gewaltforschung

Preindustrial Public Health May 24, 2024

For 2 weeks in May, a multidisciplinary #research team of archaeologists, historians, heritage specialists, and a materials engineer, collected, analysed, + mapped the toxic legacies of the #Iglesiente #mining region. From Monash faculties of Arts, and Engineering and IT, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, and École française de Rome.
#gis #spatialhistory #pXrf

Preindustrial Public Health Apr 18, 2024

3/🧵1- The health map of Ghent allows us to not only visualize and query the #spatialdistribution of late medieval public health actions but also to explore public health strategies by overlaying them with other datasets 👀

#publichealth #urbanplanning #spatialhistory #ghent

Preindustrial Public Health Apr 18, 2024

2/🧵Our ERC-project “Healthscaping Urban Europe 1200-1500” led to the creation of two health maps for the late medieval period, one for Bologna and another for Ghent, available to all👇https://healthscapes.humanities.uva.nl/home/

#histmed #spatialhistory #historicgis #geschiedenisonderwijs #bologna

What is Healthscaping? – Healthscapes

Preindustrial Public Health Apr 18, 2024

🧵Curious to know how #GIS can contribute to our understanding of medieval public health? Try our #interactive historical health maps!

#spatialhistory #historicalgeography #medievaltwitter #ghent

https://healthscapes.create.humanities.uva.nl/ghent/

Healthscapes - Ghent

Preindustrial Public Health Apr 8, 2024

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#healthscaping has come a long way. This year Janna Coomans,
Léa Hermenault, Clair Weeda,
and Rogier van Kooten published an article covering the unequal effects of plague in 16th cent #Antwerp through a spatial-environmental lens.

https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkad090/7629070?login=false#443918058

#spatialhistory #GPHW24 #publichealth

Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

Summary. Antwerp’s response to the outbreak of plague in the 1570s offers new insights into the effects of epidemics on urban communities in relation to th

OUP Academic

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺Jan 5, 2024

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Xu Xiake 徐霞客 (1587–1641), pioneer #geographer who travelled late #Ming #明 #China and left an enormous oeuvre, comprising almost half a million characters #漢字 and compiled in the Travel Records of Xu Xiake 徐霞客游记. #geography #spatialhistory