GB Historical GIS @gbhgis
Digital project researching historical boundaries, maps & statistics and building local history websites visionofbritain.org.uk Portsmouth UK Joined March 2012-
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The maintenance on A Vision of Britain through Time (visionofbritain.org.uk) is now complete and the website is back up.
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Don't forget this afternoon (02/09/2025) we're doing some maintenance to A Vision of Britain through Time (visionofbritain.org.uk) . Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Tomorrow (2nd Sept) we will be doing some maintenance to our website, A Vision of Britain through Time (visionofbritain.org.uk). It will not be available in the afternoon, apologies for any inconvenience this causes.
The September free online event on researching your family history from the @SocGenealogists covers Gloucestershire. It will take place on Tuesday 16th September 2-4pm. Sign up for it here: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/119… #Research #LocalHistory #Gloucs
Reminder: This afternoon 2-4pm is the free @SocGenealogists "Researching in Powys" event. Details here: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/101… #Research #LocalHistory #Powys
Next Monday 11th August 2025 is the next @SocGenealogists free online event on how to approach "Researching in Powys". Details for sign up are here: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/101… #Research #LocalHistory #Powys
Reminder; 14th July 2-4pm is the "Researching in East Yorkshire" free online event organised by @SocGenealogists. Details: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/377… #Research #LocalHistory #EastYorks
On 14th July 2025 it's the next free @SocGenealogists online event for those interested in "Researching in East Yorkshire". Sign up here: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/377… #Research #LocalHistory #EastYorks
Spending the day listening to projects working with generative AI at a workshop organised by the Cordial-AI project (based at UCL under the ESRC Future Data Services programme) #DataDiscovery
Our website A Vision of Britain through Time is now back online. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the outage.
Apologies our website A Vision of Britain through Time is currently down. We know about it, and we're trying to figure out how to fix it.
For those in Northamptonshire, don't forget, this afternoon at 2pm is the next @SocGenealogists series aimed at helping you get started in researching your local ancestors. See: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/373… #Research #LocalHistory #Northants
On 9th June 2025 we're participating in the next @SocGenealogists free online event for those interested in "Researching in Northamptonshire". Sign up here: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/373… #Research #LocalHistory #Northants
We're at the #IASSIST2025 Conference today. This morning we're giving a presentation on our #DDMEProject Natural Language prototype interface in session A.2. This afternoon during the poster reception we're presenting a poster & demonstration about it. #DataDiscovery
Today at 2pm for the next @SocGenealogists event on researching ancestors in Leicestershire & Rutland: members.sog.org.uk/events/67c7265… #Research #LocalHistory #Leics #Rutland
Reminder; 12th May 2-4pm we're participating in the "Researching in Leicestershire and Rutland" free online event organised by @SocGenealogists. Details here: members.sog.org.uk/events/67c7265… #Research #LocalHistory #Leics #Rutland
On 12th May 2025 it's the next free online event from @SocGenealogists for those interested in exploring their family tree through "Researching in Leicestershire and Rutland". Sign up here: members.sog.org.uk/events/67c7265… #Research #LocalHistory #Leics #Rutland
Final day at #GISRUK. Looking forward to the last session, plenary & last keynote.
At 11am #GISRUK session 4 "Rethinking Geographic Equity: Class & Time" we're presenting what we've been doing recently. This includes updates on the #DDMEProject and upcoming #VisionofBritain changes #presentation #website
Made it for the start of 33rd annual #GISRUK. Looking forward to some interesting presentations over the next two days
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