I want to use this post to briefly touch on an issue, which has been popping up with increasing regularity, and focuses on the accessibility, or lack thereof, of many historical sources.
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Back in 2008, Anne Knowles and Amy Hillier declared that historical Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were 'still something of a maverick method in the study of history.' In recent years, however, such tools have been utilised by scholars from a number of disciplines, and we are seeing an increasing trend towards their adoption in the humanities.
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