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77 posts from jimclifford.ca (2008-2023)

2020

May 09 Liverpool Trade 1853-4 Work In Progress
Jan 31 Environmental History of Long-Distance Trade Bibilography Uncategorized

2019

Mar 28 ASEH Poster Live Visualizations Digital History, London's Industries and Global Environments

2018

Sep 28 British Timber Imports 1861-1906 Digital History, London's Industries and Global Environments
Sep 19 GB1900 Interactive Map Uncategorized
Aug 24 New Books Network Podcast Books, Digital History
Jul 25 Canada Docks and Quebec Pond The Otter, Uncategorized
Jun 11 Repurposing a Map of Greater London's Industry (1893-5) ActiveHistory.ca
Apr 10 Book Launch, April 25, Stratford Library Uncategorized
Apr 02 Two Book Launch Events (Saskatoon and London) Books, Public Talk
Feb 21 The Urban Environmental History of West Ham and the River Lea Uncategorized

2017

May 15 West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914 Books
May 09 ActiveHistory.ca Post: "The great climate silence" and Historians Uncategorized
Mar 20 ActiveHistory.ca post: Map the History of Redlining, It Works Uncategorized

2016

Oct 03 ActiveHistory.ca post: The Polish Government, the Holocaust and Jan Grabowski Uncategorized
May 31 Canadian Commodities Histories Map (draft) Uncategorized
Feb 16 Greater London's Railway and Tube stations, 1836-2010 Uncategorized
Jan 08 British Commodities Visualization Digital History, London's Industries and Global Environments

2015

May 25 Mapping Infant Mortality Rates in London and West Ham Uncategorized
Mar 31 Interactive Map of London Industry 1893-1895 Work In Progress

2014

Oct 15 London's Text-Mined Hinterlands for the Social Science History Association Digging into Data, Digital History
Sep 19 Trading Consequences Cinchona Data in Voyant Tools Digging into Data, Digital History
Aug 12 Digital Approaches to 19th Century Globalization Uncategorized
Aug 12 Mapping Supply Chains for 19th Century Leather Uncategorized
Jul 16 Pessimism and Hope When Teaching Global Environmental History Uncategorized
Mar 22 Database and Visualisations Launched Digging into Data, Digital History
Feb 13 Did the Steam Engine or Spinning Mule lead to the Industrial Revolution? Uncategorized

2013

Dec 10 Timeline.js Test Digital History
Nov 29 Github as a HGIS portal? Digital History
Nov 19 Text Mining 19th Century Place Names Digging into Data, Digital History
Sep 11 Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) to Google Map Engine Digital History, Maps
Aug 06 Plant Diseases in the 19th Century Digging into Data, Digital History
Jun 25 The Giant Cost of Past Pollution ActiveHistory.ca
May 28 Coal-location-date relationships text mined from Early Canada Online (Canadiana.ca) Uncategorized
May 06 Guest Post on Kew Gardens’ Blog Uncategorized
Mar 06 Ten Most Frequent Letter Writers in the Kew Garden Directors' Correspondence Digital History
Mar 05 How to Build a Macroscope Digging into Data, Digital History
Jan 31 Trading Consequences' First Year Digging into Data, Digital History

2012

Dec 18 GIS and Time Digging into Data, Digital History
Dec 10 London's Great Smog, 60 Years On ActiveHistory.ca
Nov 27 Soap's Ghost Pastures London's Industries and Global Environments
Nov 13 Remembering the War of 1914 ActiveHistory.ca
Oct 11 19th Century Changes in the British Tallow Supply Digging into Data, Maps
Sep 23 Walking Tour Public Talk
Aug 28 Open House London Walking Tour: September 22 Public Talk
Jul 16 ActiveHistory.ca: 2012 Olympic Park Through Time ActiveHistory.ca
Jul 13 The Otter: Environment & Society Portal Uncategorized
Jul 05 Python and the Natural Language Toolkit Digging into Data, Digital History
May 01 Celebrating Three Years of ActiveHistory.ca ActiveHistory.ca
Apr 19 New Publication Publications
Apr 03 Environmental History Mobile App Digital History
Mar 13 History vs. Geography and Sourcemap.com Digging into Data, Digital History
Mar 03 West Ham 19th Century Industry Source Map Digging into Data, Digital History
Mar 02 Digging for Data in Archives Digging into Data, Digital History
Feb 10 Trading Consequences: A Digging into Data Project Digging into Data, Digital History
Jan 16 EH Mobile App Demo Digital History

2011

Dec 21 Some early results from a new research project Maps
Sep 28 Historical 2012 Olympic Tour (1st Edition) Uncategorized
Jul 28 Podcast: An Environmental History of the Lower Lea River Valley, Site of the 2012 London Olympics Uncategorized
Apr 11 April 14th Public Lecture: “From a Pastoral Wetland to an Industrial Wasteland, and Back Again? An Environmental History of the Lower Lea River Valley, the Site of the 2012 London Olympics.” Public Talk
Apr 11 Cleaning the environmental and social conditions of the 2012 Olympic Park West Ham and the Lea in the News
Jan 24 Dissertation Defended Uncategorized

2010

Nov 02 West Ham in 1945 Maps
Jun 16 "Green light for green corridor from Olympic Park to Thames" West Ham and the Lea in the News
Apr 23 Photo Essay Publications
Feb 10 Podcast Interview West Ham and the Lea in the News
Jan 08 Remaking the Bow Back Rivers: environmental and social intervention to decrease flooding and unemployment in West Ham, 1905-1935 Research Abstracts
Jan 07 Historical Maps on the Internet Uncategorized

2009

Dec 05 The River Lea in Crisis: Suburban growth and Environmental Decline in the Lea Valley, 1855-1898 Uncategorized
Oct 30 Olympic site begins to take shape, but the Lea remains polluted West Ham and the Lea in the News
Oct 12 The River Lea's modern pollution problems covered in the Guardian West Ham and the Lea in the News
Oct 05 Early Industrial Development on the Lower River Lea Uncategorized
Jun 16 The Lea: A Suburban Industrial River, 1855-1915. Uncategorized

2008

Apr 04 Water Famine, Social Injustice, and River Failure Uncategorized
Mar 03 GIS Map of West Ham's Hybrid Landscape Uncategorized
Feb 24 West Ham and the River Lea Uncategorized
Feb 20 A Hybrid Landscape on the edge of London Uncategorized