Ian Gregory
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 271100 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ian Gregory |
| NOMBRES | Ian |
| APELLIDO | Gregory |
| FIRMA | GREGORY I |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8745-2242 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1958 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Geografia strachu, smutku, gniewu i radości. Odkrywanie krajobrazów emocjonalnych w świadestwach ocalałych z Zagłady
Od 2002, nr 1/2 wyd.: Stowarzyszenie "Pro Cultura Litteraria"
Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text
Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the dif…
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Sublime
This chapter models the use of digital humanities methodologies to study semantic history. Corpus analysis and geographical information systems techniques are applied to trace the use of the word ‘sublime’ in a large collection of digitized literary works from the final decade of the nineteenth century. This collection, which comprises nearly 10,000 texts from the 1890s, was extracted from the British Library’s Nineteenth-Century Books Corpus. Th…
Barker, Elton, Leif Isaksen, Rebecca Kahn, Rainer Simon, Valeria Vitale, and the Pelagios Network, project creators. Recogito
Barker, Elton, Leif Isaksen, Rebecca Kahn, Rainer Simon, Valeria Vitale, and the Pelagios Network, project creators. Recogito: Semantic Annotation without the Pointy Brackets. Other. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Digital Approaches to John Milton), on Érudit
Developing Geographically Oriented NLP Approaches to Sixteenth–Century Historical Documents
This article introduces an ongoing Digital Humanities project aimed at leveraging the benefits of Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Spatial Analysis for advancing the computational analysis of vast historical corpora. As a case study, the project concentrates on the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España (1577–1585), one of the key corpora for understanding the early colonial period of Mexico. Using a compu…
Qualitative Geographies in Digital Texts
Techniques for extracting place names (toponyms) from texts and using them to conduct analyses of the geographies within the texts are becoming reasonably well established. These are generally referred to as Geographical Text Analysis (GTA) and allow us to ask questions about the geographies within a corpus. The limitation of this approach is that the geographies that can be uncovered are solely associated with toponyms for which a coordinate-bas…
Space and Time in 100 Million Words
The abundance of information contained in nineteenth-century texts means the traditional ‘close reading’ of Victorian culture has limitations. With the burgeoning availability of newspapers in digital format, there is a pressing need to look at how we might effectively and efficiently use these digital resources to help answer research questions and add to key historical and geographical debates. Focusing on the analysis of a large digital corpus…
Hearing the silence
We analyse silence and tranquillity in historical and contemporary corpora to understand ways landscapes were—and are—perceived in the Lake District National Park in England. Through macro and microreading we develop a taxonomy of aural experiences, and explore how changes to categories of silence from our taxonomy—for instance, the overall decline in mentions of absolute silence—provide clues to changes in the landscape and soundscape of the Lak…
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850-1910
The study of nineteenth-century infant mortality in Britain has neglected the rural dimension to a surprising degree. This article maps the change in infant mortality rate (IMR) between the 1850s and the 1900s at registration district (RD) level. Latent trajectory analysis, a longitudinal model-based clustering method, is used to identify the clusters into which rural RDs fell, based on their IMR trajectories. Relationships between IMR and popula…
Child Welfare in Victorian Newspapers
Corpus linguistics enables the analysis of patterns in large bodies of written material. The use of this approach to trace discourses about infant mortality in all of the text published by four newspapers in England and Wales between 1870 and 1900 detects systematic variations in views about infant welfare by locality. It also reveals some of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in interrogating digitized text with linguistic tools in historical…
Spatial modelling of rural infant mortality and occupation in 19th-century Britain
Infant mortality in 19 th century rural places has been largely neglected: to study it offers new insight into rural demography
Geographical Text Analysis
Underpinning these endeavours is a conviction in the value not only of geographical thinking, but also – more specifically – of maps as ‘analytical tools’ for displaying information derived from literary works in ways that ‘bring to light relations that would otherwise remain hidden’ (Moretti, Atlas 3). Maps, in so many words, are valuable because they can serve the literary scholar both as instruments for generating abstract representations of p…
From Digital Resources to Historical Scholarship with the British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection
It is increasingly acknowledged that the Digital Humanities have placed too much emphasis on data \ncreation and that the major priority should be turning digital sources into contributions to knowledge. \nWhile this sounds relatively simple, doing it involves intermediate stages of research that enhance \ndigital sources, develop new methodologies and explore their potential to generate new knowledge \nfrom the source. While these stages are fam…
Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/ijhac.2015.0135
Further Frontiers in GIS
Although the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has a long history in archaeology, spatial technologies have been rarely used to analyse the content of textual collections. A newly developed approach termed Geographic Text Analysis (GTA) is now allowing the semi-automated exploration of large corpora incorporating a combination of Natural Language Processing techniques, Corpus Linguistics, and GIS. In this article we explain the developm…
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’
Not least among many items of interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks is the account of the trip the author took to the Lake District during the summer of 1855. Like most Victorian tourists travelling to the Lakes from Liverpool (where Hawthorne was stationed as the American consul), he and his family came to the region largely to recover their health. Two years of living in Liverpool, with its coal dust and damp, had taken their toll…
The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’
It has suited both sides of Ireland's religious and political divide to portray the Great Famine that affected Ireland in the late 1840s as primarily affecting the Catholic population. However, while the geographies of the Famine have been explored in detail in recent years its religious dimensions have been largely ignored, albeit with a few exceptions. As a consequence, the assumption that the Great Famine was a Catholic famine has not been suf…
Explaining Geographical Variations in English Rural Infant Mortality Decline Using Place-Centered Reading
Making effective use of digital texts is one of the major challenges facing the humanities. This paper explores a novel method of using a large corpus of British newspapers to help explain why three neighbouring rural districts in England showed very different patterns of infant mortality decline in the second half of the nineteenth century. Quantitative analysis does not reveal any major differences between these districts that might explain thi…
Geographical Text Analysis
Toward Spatial Humanities
Applying geo-spatial methods to history
Toward spatial humanities
The application of geo-spatial technologies, especially Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital humanities and spatial humanities. The book captures the wide variety of geo-spatial applications to both traditional and non-traditional subjects in history through a series of exemplary essays designed to signal to non-specialists the methodological and substantive implication…
Historical GIS
The last 10 years have seen a sudden rise in interest in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in historical research. This has led to a field that has become known as `historical GIS'. This development started in the more quantitative ends of the discipline but has spread to encompass qualitative research as well. Interest in historical GIS is not restricted to researchers who would previously have regarded themselves as historical g…
Hard to miss, easy to blame? Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles
As Northern Ireland moves further from the period of conflict known as the 'Troubles', attention has increasingly focussed on the social and material vestiges of that conflict; Northern Ireland is still a deeply-divided society in terms of residential segregation between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists, and urban areas are still, indeed increasingly, characterised by large defensive walls, known as 'peacelines', which demark many o…
Mapping the English Lake District
To date, much of the work that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to study human geographies applies a social science paradigm to quantitative data. There is a growing recognition of the need, however, to test whether GIS can be used to map out the qualitative ‘data’ provided by the articulation of subjective spatial experiences. This paper expands the conceptual possibilities opened up by the use of GIS technology through an exploration…
Different Places, Different Stories
This article presents a substantive analysis using the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GIS), one of the earliest national historical GISs. It develops exploratory techniques to explore local patterns of demographic change and applies these to the study of infant mortality in England and Wales from 1851 to 1911. The techniques developed could be applied to a wide variety of fields where the aim is to explore long-term spa…
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic
This article introduces and implements an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of historical text corpora. It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
Geographical Text Analysis
Spatial inequalities in infant survival at an early stage of the longevity revolution
Spatial inequalities in human development are of great concern to international organisations and national governments. Demographic indicators like the infant mortality rate are important measures for determining these inequalities. Using demographic indic
Analyzing Spatiotemporal Change by Use of National Historical Geographical Information Systems
Several countries have made large investments in building historical Geographical Information Systems (GIS) databases containing census and other quantitative statistics over long periods of time. Making good use of these databases requires approaches that explore spatial and temporal change. The authors use a variety of visualization and spatial analysis techniques to explore population change in Ireland during and after the Great Famine of the …
Spatial History
A comparative spatial history combining historical narrative, geographical thinking, and spatial analysis of historical data offers new perspectives on railway expansion and its effects in France and Great Britain during the long nineteenth century. Accessible rail transport in the rural regions of both countries opened new economic opportunities in agriculture, extractive industries, and service trades, helping to revitalize rural communities an…
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’
Not least among many items of interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks is the account of the trip the author took to the Lake District during the summer of 1855. Like most Victorian tourists travelling to the Lakes from Liverpool (where Hawthorne was stationed as the American consul), he and his family came to the region largely to recover their health. Two years of living in Liverpool, with its coal dust and damp, had taken their toll…
A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardized geographical units
This paper analyses geographical trends in relative poverty in England and Wales over the last century by comparing key quantitative indicators from key dates. The comparison is made possible by interpolating all the datasets onto a single standardized geography. Results suggest rising inequality in spite of the decline in absolute poverty
Combining Close and Distant Reading
This article joins calls for literary scholarship to move beyond the limitations of binary oppositions between 'close' and 'distant' reading and towards the development of approaches that exploit the macroanalytic potential of digital methods alongside the nuanced analysis that characterises literary scholarship. Drawing on a customised corpus of writing about the English Lake District, we model the application of a multiscalar approach known as …
The judgement of God on an indolent and unself-reliant people’
It has suited both sides of Ireland's religious and political divide to portray the Great Famine that affected Ireland in the late 1840s as primarily affecting the Catholic population. However, while the geographies of the Famine have been explored in detail in recent years its religious dimensions have been largely ignored, albeit with a few exceptions. As a consequence, the assumption that the Great Famine was a Catholic famine has not been suf…
Hearing the silence
We analyse silence and tranquillity in historical and contemporary corpora to understand ways landscapes were—and are—perceived in the Lake District National Park in England. Through macro and microreading we develop a taxonomy of aural experiences, and explore how changes to categories of silence from our taxonomy—for instance, the overall decline in mentions of absolute silence—provide clues to changes in the landscape and soundscape of the Lak…
Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850-1910
The study of nineteenth-century infant mortality in Britain has neglected the rural dimension to a surprising degree. This article maps the change in infant mortality rate (IMR) between the 1850s and the 1900s at registration district (RD) level. Latent trajectory analysis, a longitudinal model-based clustering method, is used to identify the clusters into which rural RDs fell, based on their IMR trajectories. Relationships between IMR and popula…
Spatial modelling of rural infant mortality and occupation in 19th-century Britain
Infant mortality in 19 th century rural places has been largely neglected: to study it offers new insight into rural demography
Further Frontiers in GIS
Although the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has a long history in archaeology, spatial technologies have been rarely used to analyse the content of textual collections. A newly developed approach termed Geographic Text Analysis (GTA) is now allowing the semi-automated exploration of large corpora incorporating a combination of Natural Language Processing techniques, Corpus Linguistics, and GIS. In this article we explain the developm…
Introduction to Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History
Over the past decade or so geographic information systems (GIS) methodology has become an accepted tool in historical research (Gregory and Ell 2007; Knowles 2008). Although often regarded as a mapping tool, GIS is perhaps better thought of as a type of database. What makes a GIS database unique is that a location is stored for each item of data, with this location taking any of a variety of forms: a point, a line, a polygon representing an area …
The Railways, Urbanization, and Local Demography in England and Wales, 1825-1911
Exploring Qualitative Geographies in Large Volumes of Digital Text
Thus far, approaches to analyzing geographies in large collections of digital texts have used coordinate-based locations derived from toponyms (place names). Although this approach provides a useful starting point, it ignores both nontoponym references to place and textual structure while stressing Euclidean space. This article addresses these issues. Focusing on a corpus of writing about the English Lake District before 1900, it explores the dif…
Digital humanities and tourism history
This symposium considers how the digital humanities (DH), which relies on computer technology to interpret data and present conclusions, can enhance our understanding of tourism history. It begins with an introduction that defines DH, considers how DH can assist the way in which we think about tourism, and discusses the strengths and limitations of applications like text mining and digital mapping. This is followed by a review of the scholarship …
Child Welfare in Victorian Newspapers
Corpus linguistics enables the analysis of patterns in large bodies of written material. The use of this approach to trace discourses about infant mortality in all of the text published by four newspapers in England and Wales between 1870 and 1900 detects systematic variations in views about infant welfare by locality. It also reveals some of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in interrogating digitized text with linguistic tools in historical…
Longitudinal Analysis of Age- and Gender-Specific Migration Patterns in England and Wales
The study of long-term change has traditionally been severely hampered by changes in the administrative geography for which data have been published. The traditional response to this problem has been aggregation, however, this causes a loss of detail and may also lead to unreliable results due to the modifiable areal unit problem. This paper presents a methodology that allows longitudinal analysis to be performed with approximately the level of s…
An Analysis of Familial Data on Psychiatric Patients
Data collected by A. Norton in 1952 and 1957 on a large series of psychiatric patients (predominantly neurotic) in London and certain data recorded by B. Malzberg in 1938 in New York concerning patients with dementia praecox and manic-depressive psychoses are further examined in an effort to determine the relationship if any of parental age family size birth order and ordinal position to mental disorders. A slight but statistically significant in…
T. W. Moore on the Ethics of Discrimination
Schools and Employment Law
The nature of the education labour market and the role of employment law the nature and regulation of employment contract recruiting, selecting and promoting staff staff management and job security management of non employees the legal rules affecting the work environment industrial relations and the school employment relations - future trends
Some Reflections on Golby and Governors
It is suggested that, pace Michael Golby, recourse to metaphor has little role to play in enabling governing bodies to come to terms with their new and onerous responsibilities. The better way forward is a clearer appreciation of what is demanded of them by law
Parents and Schools
Education and the Law
Longitudinal Analysis of Age- and Gender-Specific Migration Patterns in England and Wales
Many geographers have argued for the need to incorporate change over time into their analyses (see, for example, Haggett 1965; Hägerstrand 1970; Thrift 1977;Marsh et al. 1988); however, changes to administrative boundaries often mean that demographic statistics collected at two different dates cannot be directly compared. This has made it very difficult to study longitudinal change without resorting to undesirable levels of aggregation, typically…
Longitudinal Analysis of Age- and Gender-Specific Migration Patterns in England and Wales
The study of long-term change has traditionally been severely hampered by changes in the administrative geography for which data have been published. The traditional response to this problem has been aggregation, however, this causes a loss of detail and may also lead to unreliable results due to the modifiable areal unit problem. This paper presents a methodology that allows longitudinal analysis to be performed with approximately the level of s…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardized geographical units
This paper analyses geographical trends in relative poverty in England and Wales over the last century by comparing key quantitative indicators from key dates. The comparison is made possible by interpolating all the datasets onto a single standardized geography. Results suggest rising inequality in spite of the decline in absolute poverty
Good Citizenship and Educational Provision
Citizenship has been taught in school around the world for many years now, and is due to be introduced to the UK curriculum over the next few years. Teachers, Headteachres, administrators and policy makers have the opportunity to develop citizenship education programs for all their students. This book takes a pragmatic approach to the issue, and answers many of the crucial questions that will be emerging: what definitions of citizenship are to be…
Analyzing Spatiotemporal Change by Use of National Historical Geographical Information Systems
Several countries have made large investments in building historical Geographical Information Systems (GIS) databases containing census and other quantitative statistics over long periods of time. Making good use of these databases requires approaches that explore spatial and temporal change. The authors use a variety of visualization and spatial analysis techniques to explore population change in Ireland during and after the Great Famine of the …
Historical GIS
Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate h…
Historical GIS
The last 10 years have seen a sudden rise in interest in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in historical research. This has led to a field that has become known as `historical GIS'. This development started in the more quantitative ends of the discipline but has spread to encompass qualitative research as well. Interest in historical GIS is not restricted to researchers who would previously have regarded themselves as historical g…
Different Places, Different Stories
This article presents a substantive analysis using the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GIS), one of the earliest national historical GISs. It develops exploratory techniques to explore local patterns of demographic change and applies these to the study of infant mortality in England and Wales from 1851 to 1911. The techniques developed could be applied to a wide variety of fields where the aim is to explore long-term spa…
The Railways, Urbanization, and Local Demography in England and Wales, 1825-1911
The Railways, Urbanization, and Local Demography in England and Wales, 1825–1911
This article uses geographic information systems (GIS) to explore the growth of the rail network in England and Wales in the period before World War I. It uses two major GIS databases, one containing data on the growth of the rail network, including both lines and stations, and one containing parish-level populations. The parish-level data are particularly important for two reasons: they give an unparalleled level of spatial detail, and they are …
Mapping the English Lake District
To date, much of the work that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to study human geographies applies a social science paradigm to quantitative data. There is a growing recognition of the need, however, to test whether GIS can be used to map out the qualitative ‘data’ provided by the articulation of subjective spatial experiences. This paper expands the conceptual possibilities opened up by the use of GIS technology through an exploration…
Introduction to Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History
Introduction to Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History
Over the past decade or so geographic information systems (GIS) methodology has become an accepted tool in historical research (Gregory and Ell 2007; Knowles 2008). Although often regarded as a mapping tool, GIS is perhaps better thought of as a type of database. What makes a GIS database unique is that a location is stored for each item of data, with this location taking any of a variety of forms: a point, a line, a polygon representing an area …
Spatial History
A comparative spatial history combining historical narrative, geographical thinking, and spatial analysis of historical data offers new perspectives on railway expansion and its effects in France and Great Britain during the long nineteenth century. Accessible rail transport in the rural regions of both countries opened new economic opportunities in agriculture, extractive industries, and service trades, helping to revitalize rural communities an…
Troubled Geographies
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A Method for Exploring Long-Term Urban Change Using National Historical GIS Databases
This article describes a new approach for analyzing data within national historical geographic information system databases that can be used to explore long-term trends in landscape evolution. The methodology is based on clustering together areas with similar demographic characteristics to define urban agglomerations whose territorial extents and populations vary over time. The resulting database can be used in a wide range of ways that allow the…
Toward Spatial Humanities
Applying geo-spatial methods to history
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