My Academic Research: What’s in a Name?
I have spent the last few years investigating the geography of family names (also called surnames). I work with the team who assembled the UCL Department of Geography...
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Surname Diversity in Great Britain
As part of my PhD research I recently produced the map below (high res. version) that shows the diversity of surnames in Great Britain. I wanted to demonstrate that...
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Great Britain’s Surname Cloud
As part of the research group that created the National Trust Surnames Profiler I have access to a comprehensive database of surnames in Great Britain. Most of my...
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Yesterday I presented the paper “Combining Historic Interpretations of the Great Britain Popualtion with Contemporary Spatial Analysis: the Case of...
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spatial.ly is written and curated by James Cheshire. James is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis where he researches, teaches and maps.