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The following lists a selection of books and papers that are directly relevant to Historical GIS. Publications in the field are growing rapidly but are widely distributed across the literature. We would very much welcome suggestions of additional material. Please submit them to Ian Gregory.

Books on HGIS:

Knowles A.K. (2008, ed.) Placing History: How GIS is changing historical scholarship. ESRI Press: Redlands CA. Digital supplement edited by A. Hillier.

Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2007) Historical GIS: Techniques, methodologies and scholarship. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Gregory I.N. (2003) A Place in History: A guide to using GIS in historical research. Oxbow: Oxford. The second edition of this is available online at: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/publications/ig-gis.pdf, the first edition is available from http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/gis/index.asp

Knowles A.K. (2002, ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA

Ott T. and Swiaczny F. (2001) Time-Integrative Geographic Information Systems: Management and analysis of spatio-temporal data. Springer Verlag: Berlin

Goerke M. (1994, ed.) Coordinates for Historical Maps. Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte: Gottinge

Special editions of journals related to HGIS:

Historical Geography, vol. 33, 2005. Edited by A.K. Knowles.

History and Computing, vol. 13(1), 2001. Edited by P.S. Ell and I.N. Gregory.

Social Science History, vol. 24(3), 2000. Edited by A.K. Knowles.

Books that make extensive use of HGIS:

Campbell B.M.S. (2000) English Seigniorial Agriculture 1250-1450. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge

Campbell B.M.S. and Bartley K. (2006) England on the Eve of the Black Death: An atlas of lay lordship, land and wealth, 1300-49. Manchester University Press: Manchester

Cunfer G. (2005) On the Great Plains: Agriculture and environment. Texas A&M University Press: College Station

Kennedy L., Ell P.S., Crawford E.M. and Clarkson L.A. (1999) Mapping the Great Irish Famine: A survey of the Famine decades. Four Courts Press: Dublin

Spence C. (2000) London in the 1690s: A social atlas. Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research: London

Wachowicz M. (1999) Object-Orientated Design for Temporal GIS. Taylor & Francis: London

Woods R. and Shelton N. (1997) An Alas of Victorian Mortality. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool

Journal articles, book chapters and other papers:

Andrienko G. and Andrienko N. (2001) “Exploring spatial data with dominant attribute map and parallel coordinates” Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 25, pp. 5-15

Al-Taha K.K., Snodgrass R.T. and Soo M.D. (1994) “Bibliography on spatio-temporal databases” International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 8, pp. 95-103

Atkins P. and Mitchell G. (1996) “Yesterday’s and today’s data” GIS Europe, 5, pp. 24-26

Bartley K. and Campbell B. (1997) “Inquisitiones Post Mortem, GIS, and the creation of a land-use map of Medieval England” Transactions in GIS, 2, pp. 333-346

Berman M.L. (2005) “Boundaries or networks in historical GIS: Concepts of measuring space and administrative geography in Chinese history” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 118-133

Beveridge A.A. (2002) “Immigration, ethnicity and race in metropolitan New York, 1900-2000” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. 65-78

Block W. and Tomas W. (2003) “Implementing the Data Documentation Initiative at the Minnesota Population Center” Historical Methods, 36, pp. 97-101

Bol P. and Ge J. (2005) “China Historical GIS” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 150-152

Buckland M. and Lancaster L. (2004) “Combining place, time, and topic” D-Lib Magazine, 10 (5), see http://www.dlib.org.

Campos R.M., Congdon P., Curtis S.E., Gregory I.N., Jones I.R. and Southall H.R. (2004) “Locality level mortality and socio-economic change in Britain since 1920: First steps towards analysis of infant mortality variation.” In Boyle P., Curtis S.E., Graham E., and Moore E. (eds.) The Geography of Health Inequalities in the Developed World. Ashgate: Aldershot. pp. 53-75

Congdon P., Campos R.M., Curtis S.E., Southall H.R., Gregory I.N., and Jones I.R. (2001) “Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s” International Journal of Population Geography, 7, pp. 35-51

Cunfer G. (2002) “Causes of the Dust Bowl” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. 93-104

De Moor M. and Wiedemann T. (2001) “Reconstructing Belgian territorial units and hierarchies: An example from Belgium” History and Computing, 13, pp. 71-97

Diamond E. and Bodenhamer D. (2001) “Investigating white-flight in Indianapolis: A GIS approach” History and Computing, 13, pp. 25-44

Fitch C.A. and Ruggles S. (2003) “Building the National Historical Geographic Information System” Historical Methods, 36, 41-51

Fleming R. and Lowerre A. (2004) “MacDomesday Book” Past and Present, 184, pp. 209-232

Gregory I.N. (2000) “Longitudinal analysis of age and gender specific migration patterns in England and Wales: a GIS-based approach” Social Science History, 24, pp. 471-503

Gregory I.N. (2002) “Time variant databases of changing historical administrative boundaries: a European comparison” Transactions in GIS, 6, pp. 161-178

Gregory I.N. (2002) “The accuracy of areal interpolation techniques: Standardising 19th and 20th century census data to allow long-term comparisons” Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 26, pp. 293-314

Gregory I.N. (2005) “The Great Britain Historical GIS” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 132-134

Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2005) “Breaking the boundaries: Integrating 200 years of the Census using GIS” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 168, pp. 419-437

Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2005) “Analysing spatio-temporal change using national historical GISs: Population change during and after the Great Irish Famine” Historical Methods, 38, pp. 149-167

Gregory I.N. and Ell P.S. (2006) “Error sensitive historical GIS: identifying areal interpolation errors in time-series data” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 20, pp. 135-152

Gregory I.N. and Healey R.G. (2007) “Historical GIS: Structuring, mapping and analysing geographies of the past” Progress in Human Geography, 31, pp. 638-653

Gregory I.N. and Southall H.R. (1998) “Putting the past in its place: The Great Britain Historical GIS” in Carver S. (ed.) Innovations in GIS 5. Taylor & Francis: London: pp. 210-221

Gregory I.N. and Southall H.R. (2000) “Spatial frameworks for historical censuses – the Great Britain Historical GIS” in Hall P.K., McCaa R. and Thorvaldsen D. (eds.) Handbook of Historical Microdata for Population Research. Minnesota Population Center: Minneapolis, pp. 319-333

Gregory I.N., Bennett C., Gilham V.L. and Southall H.R. (2002) “The Great Britain Historical GIS: From maps to changing human geography” The Cartographic Journal, 39, pp. 37-49

Gregory I.N., Kemp K.K. and Mostern R. (2001) “Geographic Information and historical research: Current progress and future directions” History and Computing, 13, pp. 7-21

Gregory I.N., Dorling D. and Southall H.R. (2001) “A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardised geographical units” Area, 33, pp. 297-311

Harris T. (2002) “GIS in archaeology” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. 131-143.

Healey R.G. and Stamp T.R. (2000) “Historical GIS as a foundation for the analysis of regional economic growth: theoretical, methodological, and practical issues” Social Science History, 24, pp. 575-612

Hill L.L. and Janee G. (2004) “The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Metadata development and use” in Hillmann D.I. and Westbrooks E.L. (eds.) Metadata in Practice. American Library Association: Chicago, pp. 117-138.

Hillier A.E. (2002) “Redlining in Philadelphia.” in Knowles, A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI: Redlands, CA, pp. 79-93

Hillier A.E. (2003) “Spatial analysis of historical redlining: A methodological exploration” Journal of Housing Research, 14, pp. 137-167

Holdsworth D.W. (2002) “Historical geography: The ancients and the moderns – generational vitality” Progress in Human Geography, 26, pp. 671-678

Holdsworth D.W. (2003) “Historical geography: New ways of imaging and seeing the past” Progress in Human Geography, 27, pp. 486-493

Knowles A.K. (2000) “Introduction” Social Science History, 24, pp. 451-470

Knowles A.K. (2002) “Introducing historical GIS” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. xi-xx

Knowles A.K. (2005) “Emerging trends in historical GIS” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 7-13

Knowles A.K. (2005, ed.) “Reports on National Historical GIS projects” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 293-314

Lancaster L. and Bodenhamer D. (2002) “The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and the North American Religion Atlas” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. 163-178

Larson R.R. (2003) “Placing cultural events and documents in space and time” in Duckham M., Goodchild M.F. and Worboys M.F. (eds.) Foundations of Geographic Information Science. Taylor & Francis: London, pp. 223-239

Lilley K., Lloyd C., Trick S. and Graham C. (2005) “Mapping and analyzing medieval built form using GPS and GIS” Urban Morphology, 9, 5-15

Lilley K., Lloyd, C. and Trick S. (2005) “Mapping medieval urban landscapes: The design and planning of Edward I’s new towns of England and Wales” Antiquity, 79 (303). See http://www.antiquity.ac.uk.

MacDonald B.M. and Black F.A. (2000) “Using GIS for spatial and temporal analysis in print culture studies: some opportunities and challenges” Social Science History, 24, pp. 505-536

Madry S.L.H. and Crumley C.L. (1990) “An application of remote sensing and GIS in a regional archaeological settlement analysis: The Arroux River Valley, Burgundy, France” in Allen K.M.S., Green S.W. and Zubrow E.B.W. (eds.) Interpreting Space: GIS and archaeology. Taylor and Francis: London, pp 364-381

McMaster R.B. and Noble P. (2005) “The U.S. National Historical Geographical Information System” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 134-136

Miller D. and Modell J. (1988) “Teaching United States history with the Great American History Machine” Historical Methods, 21, pp. 121-134

Owens J.B. and Woodworth-Ney (2005) “Envisioning a master’s degree program in geographically-integrated history.” Journal of the Association of History and Computing, Vol. 8(2). See: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/jahcindex.htm

Pearson A.W. and Collier P. (1998) “The integration and analysis of historical and environmental data using a Geographical Information System: Landownership and agricultural productivity in Pembrokeshire c. 1850” Agricultural History Review, 46, pp. 162-176

Pearson A.W. and Collier P. (2002) “Agricultural history with GIS” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, pp. 105-116

Plewe B. (2002) “The nature of uncertainty in historical Geographical Information” Transactions in GIS, 6, pp. 431-456

Ray B.C. (2002) “Teaching the Salem witchcraft trials” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. 19-33

Rumsey D. and Williams M. (2002) “Historical maps in GIS” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA: pp. 1-18

Schaefer M. (2004) “Design and implementation of a proposed standard for digital storage and internet-based retrieval of data from the Tithe Survey of England and Wales” Historical Methods, 37, pp. 61-72

Sheehan-Dean A.C. (2002) “Similarity and difference in the Antebellum North and South” in Knowles A.K. (ed.) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for history. ESRI Press: Redlands, CA, pp. 35-50

Siebert L. (2000) “Using GIS to document, visualize, and interpret Tokyo’s spatial history” Social Science History, 24, 537-574

Skinner G.W., Henderson M. and Jianhua Y. (2000) “China’s fertility transition through regional space” Social Science History, 24, pp. 613-652.

Smith D.M., Crane G. and Rydberg-Cox, J. (2000) “The Perseus Project: A digital library for the humanities” Literary and Linguistic Computing, 15, pp. 15-25

Southall H.R. (2006) “A Vision of Britain through Time: Making sense of 200 years of census reports” Local Population Studies, 76, pp. 76-84

Spence C. (2000) “Computers, maps and metropolitan London in the 1690s” in Woollard M. (ed.) New Windows on London’s Past: Information technology and the transformation of Metropolitan history. Association for History and Computing: Glasgow, pp. 25-46

Thomas W.G. and Ayers E.L. (2003) “An overview: The differences slavery made: A close analysis of two American communities” American Historical Review, 108, pp. 1298-1307, see also http://www.historycooperative.org/ahr/elec-projects.html.

VanHaute E. (2005) “The Belgium Historical GIS” Historical Geography, 33, pp. 136-139

Vrana R. (1989) “Historical data as an explicit component of land information systems” International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 3, pp. 33-49.

Vrana R. (1990) “Historical data as an explicit component of land information systems” in Peuquet D.J. and Marble D.F. (eds.) Introductory Readings in Geographical Information Systems. Taylor & Francis: London, pp. 286-302

Walford N. (2005) “Connecting historical and contemporary small-area geography in Britain: The creation of digital boundary data for 1971 and 1981 census units” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19, pp. 749-767

Wilson A. (2001) “Sydney TimeMap: Integrating historical resources using GIS” History and Computing, 13, pp. 45-69

(c) Ian Gregory, 2007
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