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World Historical Gazetteer

@whgazetteer.org
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WHG is a platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language. Project Director: @rmostern.bsky.social Technical Director: @docuracy.co.uk whgazetteer.org #DH #LOD #GIS

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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 28/08/2026
Inspired by @sharonhoward.bsky.social's beautiful mapping of @thegozfather.bsky.social's catalogue of pleadings in the Court of Requests, we're building a new Workbench tool to help identify place names from the descriptions. worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/workbench-de...
Heatmap of England and Wales showing the density of places identified (or misidentified) from the TNA descriptions of its Elizabethan-period pleadings in the Court of Requests.Map popup showing detail of a case relating to Spon Street, Coventry, and a link to the record in the TNA online catalogue.
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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 01/06/2026
Trying something new: feeding old print gazetteers through modern OCR + open LLMs + our newly-expanded index to see how much can be turned into searchable, mappable data. Read more at blog.whgazetteer.org?p=434 Play with it: worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/gazetteer-of...
Global heatmap of the roughly 116,000 places extracted from A Gazetteer of the World (1856), plotted on a world basemap. Density is highest across Britain and Europe, South Asia, and the eastern United States; sparser across much of Africa, South America, and the interior of Asia, reflecting the 1856 compilers' Anglocentric reach.
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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 20/05/2025
We have an interactive map of Equiano's astonishing travels, compiled by @rmostern.bsky.social: whgazetteer.org/collections/...
Map showing locations visited by Olaudah Equiano between 1745 and 1797.
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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 30/04/2025
🌍 Recent updates to the WHG user interface give faster loading and globe visualisations. Image: Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection at doi.org/10.60681/whg... Explore more at: whgazetteer.org ! #DigitalHumanities #HistoricalGIS #GeoHumanities #HistoricalGeography
Globe visualisation of Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection [https://doi.org/10.60681/whg-collection-172]
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