The wiki now has pages for ecclesiastical units in England and Wales. You can drill down from the Church of England to find provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries and rural deaneries. The relationships in this […]

Covid interferes with everything eventually but it has only interfered with this project in a very indirect way: I needed new glasses and I waited to get vaccinated before booking an eye test. Then when I got new […]

One of the advantages of doing this project on my own with no funding or institutional support is that there are no deadlines. A disadvantage is that working on the project has to come third behind paid work and […]

I’ve been working on importing wiki pages for settlements in England. This post follows on from the one about importing Scottish places and will refer back to that instead of repeating all the details, but for […]

Every time I think I’ve finalised the data structures of the semantic wiki, I realise that something could be done better or that querying for a certain thing is too difficult. This week I’ve given the wiki a big […]

This month I’ve started working on importing large amounts of data for places in Great Britain. I’m writing this blog post as I go, so that I can easily remember what I did. Imports of authors seem like old news […]

I’ve finished working on The Power of Petitioning, and the shutdown is giving me plenty of time to work on By The Sword Linked, so here’s a quick summary of where I am and where I’m going.

The biggest news is […]

As it’s the start of a new year, this post is a review of progress so far and a rough plan for the coming year.

The blog and the wiki have been fairly quiet because I’m still busy transcribing petitions for The […]