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Political Meetings Mapper - Katrina Navickas - Winner of BL Labs 2015 Competition

Dr Katrina Navickas, Lecturer of Digital History, University of Hertfordshire presenting at the British Library Labs 2015 Symposium, Conference Centre, British Library, 2 November, 2015. The Political Meetings Mapper project developed a tool to extract notices of meetings from historical newspapers and plot them on layers of historical maps in the British Library's collections. It visualised the locations of political events in the crucial era of the 1830s and 1840s, when Chartism, the first and largest movement for democracy in Britain, held thousands of meetings and demonstrations to campaign for the vote. By plotting the meetings listed in the Chartist newspaper, The Northern Star, from 1838 to 1844, it discovered new spatial patterns in where popular politics happened, and in so doing, helped answer the questions of how and why it happened. More information is available here: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/d... Brief 4 minute video of Katrina's work is available here:    • Katrina Navickas BL Labs Competition Winne...