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GAP Research Day 2013
Posted on May 13, 2013 | No CommentsFriday 10th May was Research Day for the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP) at QUB. The morning session consisted of a number of post graduate students presenting on... -
Interdisciplinary Early Modern Map Seminar, St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Posted on January 25, 2013 | No CommentsEarlier this week I took part in the Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminar at St.Catharine’s College, Cambridge. The main focus of the roundtable was current methods used to study Early modern... -
Winter School January 2013 – Cartography and Archives
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No CommentsEarlier this week I attended the Winter School in at Newcastle University. The program can be found here. I presented on my experience of using archives in relation to cartography. ... -
ENVISION – Landscape Layers and Mapping through Time: GIS applications in the pursuit of landscape histories
Posted on December 4, 2012 | No CommentsLast week, Dr Keith Lilley and I, along with some MSc Heritage Science students, attended a talk being given by Keith as part of the ENVISION community heritage project. The... -
Porter, C. 2013. Doctoral Theses in Progress: Quantifying Irish Cartographic Histories, Imago Mundi, 65 (1), p.135-136.
Posted on November 2, 2012 | No CommentsThis short article, written for Imago Mundi, has recently been published. It provides a brief outline of my thesis methodology, as well as detailing some preliminary results to challenge to... -
Doctorates in progress relating to the history of cartography
Posted on October 26, 2012 | No CommentsI have recently been included in the Doctorates in progress relating to the history of cartography webpage overseen by Tony Campbell the former Map Librarian at the British Library. -
Maps of Ulster BBC documentary
Posted on September 26, 2012 | No CommentsRecently I carried out some work on the 1609 Bodley Escheated County Maps of Ulster for a BBCNI documentary on early maps of Ulster (Hardy Pictures). These maps were the... -
Robert Lythe’s Ireland
Posted on August 29, 2012 | No CommentsI’ve recently been working on Robert Lythe’s map of Ireland (courtesy of Petworth House archives), created from his intensive survey of the country between 1567-1570. There are over 2300 ‘places’... -
XV. International Conference of Historical Geographers
Posted on August 9, 2012 | No CommentsEarlier this week Dr Keith Lilley and I presented the paper ‘Unravelling historical geographies of medieval and modern cartography: The uses of GIS in quantifying and comparing changes in European...
