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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