Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 3:Integrating Qualitative Content for a Sense of Place

Southall, Humphrey

doi:10.1080/01615440.2013.847774

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“…Higgs and Sch€ urer (2014) described how these data have been digitally encoded for most of the period from 1851 to 1911. Addresses are also linked to parishes, the boundaries of which have been digitized (Southall 2012(Southall , 2014. It is thus possible to ascribe names to small areas and to estimate detailed surname geographies of the country.…”

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Family Name Origins and Intergenerational Demographic Change in Great Britain

Kandt

Dijk

Longley

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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We develop bespoke geospatial routines to typify 88,457 surnames by their likely ancestral geographic origins within Great Britain. Linking this taxonomy to both historic and contemporary population data sets, we characterize regional populations using surnames that indicate whether their bearers are likely to be long-settled. We extend this approach in a case study application, in which we summarize intergenerational change in local populations across Great Britain over a period of 120 years. We also analyze much shorter term demographic dynamics and chart likely recent migratory flows within the country. Our research demonstrates the value of family names in characterizing long-term population change at regional and local scales. We find evidence of selective migratory flows in both time periods alongside increasing demographic diversity and distinctiveness between regions in Great Britain.

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Family Name Origins and Intergenerational Demographic Change in Great Britain

Kandt

Dijk

Longley

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…Records that refer to populations that likely have a recent migration history were removed using a surname classification tool (Mateos ): only records of people with Anglo‐Saxon, Irish, Scottish, Cornish and Celtic names are retained (criterion 3). The 1881 Census of Population holds information about the residential parish of each record, which are partially geocoded (Southall ) and can therefore be linked to the geographic definition of rural areas used in the POBI project (i.e. areas that are at least two kilometres from towns with present‐day populations of 125 000: criterion 4) .…”

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Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain

Kandt

Cheshire

Longley

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Following the increasing availability of DNA‐sequenced data, the genetic structure of populations can now be inferred and studied in unprecedented detail. Across social science, this innovation is shaping new bio‐social research agendas, attracting substantial investment in the collection of genetic, biological and social data for large population samples. Yet genetic samples are special because the precise populations that they represent are uncertain and ill‐defined. Unlike most social surveys, a genetic sample's representativeness of the population cannot be established by conventional procedures of statistical inference, and the implications for population‐wide generalisations about bio‐social phenomena are little understood. In this paper, we seek to address these problems by linking surname data to a censored and geographically uneven sample of DNA scans, collected for the People of the British Isles study. Based on a combination of global and local spatial correspondence measures, we identify eight regions in Great Britain that are most likely to represent the geography of genetic structure of Great Britain's long‐settled population. We discuss the implications of this regionalisation for bio‐social investigations. We conclude that, as the often highly selective collection of DNA and biomarkers becomes a more common practice, geography is crucial to understanding variation in genetic information within diverse populations.

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“…The AUO, and the overall historical GIS that it is part of, have already been described at length [11][12][13], while Aucott et al documented its extensions beyond Britain [14]. The next section summarizes the database architecture, but at this level, the system is extremely abstract: it defines entities that can have various names, and have various kinds of relationships with other entities.…”

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Expressing History through a Geo-Spatial Ontology

Southall

Aucott

2019

IJGI

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Conventional Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software struggles to represent uncertain and contested historical knowledge. An ontology, meaning a semantic structure defining named entities, and explicit and typed relationships, can be constructed in the absence of locational data, and spatial objects can be attached to this structure if and when they become available. We describe the overall architecture of the Great Britain Historical GIS, and the PastPlace Administrative Unit Ontology that forms its core. Then, we show how particular historical geographies can be represented within this architecture through two case studies, both emphasizing entity definition and especially the application of a multi-level typology, in which each “unit” has an unchanging “type” but also a time-variant “status”. The first includes the linked systems of Poor Law unions and registration districts in 19th century England and Wales, in which most but not all unions and districts were coterminous. The second case study includes the international system of nation-states, in which most units do not appear from nothing, but rather gain or lose independence. We show that a relatively simple data model is able to represent much historical complexity.

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Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 3:Integrating Qualitative Content for a Sense of Place

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Family Name Origins and Intergenerational Demographic Change in Great Britain

Family Name Origins and Intergenerational Demographic Change in Great Britain

Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain

Expressing History through a Geo-Spatial Ontology

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