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Lethal Brandy for Christmas
by Bea Alex We are making good progress with our text mining work in Trading Consequences and are able to identify related commodities and geo-referenced locations in our collections. We are working on...
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Dr Jim Clifford, postdoctoral fellow at York University on the Trading Consequences project, has accepted a tenure-track job at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon beginning 1 July 2013. Jim’s...
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Presenting Trading Consequences at CHESS’13
On June 1st, we presented the Trading Consequences project as part of CHESS’13, the Canadian History & Environment Summer School that took place in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, Canada, from May...
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Plant Diseases in the 19th Century
A word cloud of diseases found in The Diseases of Tropical Plants by Melville Thurston Cook During the 19th century British industrialists and botanists searched the world for economically useful...
View ArticleGuest Post on Commodity Histories Site
The Trading Consequences team have written a guest post on the new Commodity Histories website which is live as of today. The post describes our early prototype which we created at the beginning of...
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Bootstrapping (for historians)
Disciplines have their own vocabularies, and these may sometimes appear obscure to people who peek into the new areas. My word-processing package used to tell me that it didn’t recognise...
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Comparing Apples with Oranges
This Friday we will officially launch Trading Consequences this Friday (21st March), with publication of our White Paper and the launch of our visualization and search tools. Ahead of the launch we...
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Official Launch of Trading Consequences!
Today we are delighted to officially announce the launch of Trading Consequences! Over the course of the last two years the project team have been hard at work to use text mining, traditional and...
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A Quick Exploration of Ten Nineteenth Century British Imports
During the 19th century, Britain imported hundreds of commodities from all over the world. Ten of the most important were cotton, wool, wheat, sugar, tea, butter, silk, flax, rice and guano. Below are...
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Seven Tips for Using the Trading Consequences Database and Visualization Tools
The strengths of the Trading Consequences relational database and visualization tools lie in the information they convey about the geospatial history of particular commodities. There are a variety of...
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