Tanu, Nikki;
Gibin, Maurizio;
Longley, Paul;
(2021)
Georeferencing historical telephone directories to understand innovation diffusion and social change.
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Proceedings of the 29th Annual GIS Research UK Conference (GISRUK).
(pp. pp. 1-6).
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Abstract
This paper explores how historical archives of British telephone directories, recently made available, can be used to revisit historical and geographical questions using a modern, quantitative approach. By geolocating telephone subscribers throughout history, we seek to retrace spatial and temporal changes in demography and the spread of the fixed line telephone network in Britain. We develop a prototypical pipeline for capturing and processing these data using archives from 1881 and demonstrate that, if extended and applied to directories from the subsequent 100 years, this research can provide new insights into wide-ranging aspects of British social and economic history.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Georeferencing historical telephone directories to understand innovation diffusion and social change |
| Event: | 29th Annual GIS Research UK Conference (GISRUK) |
| Location: | Cardiff, UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.4665847 |
| Publisher version: | https://https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4665847 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Authors 2022. Original content in this publication is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | historical GIS, telecommunications, demography, innovation diffusion |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152990 |
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