{"id":2,"date":"2013-12-17T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:20:59","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.entry-title {display:none;}<br \/><\/style>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<p>This five-year project ran from 2012-16 and was funded by the European Research Council under a Starting Researcher Grant. Our aim was to create a step-change in how place, space and geography were explored in the Humanities. Building on ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½&#8217;s technical expertise in Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics and Geospatial Analysis, as well as its applied expertise in the history of the English Lake District, we developed and applied methodologies for analysing unstructured texts\u2014including large corpora of historical books, periodicals and official reports\u2014within a Geographic Information Systems (or GIS) environment.<\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s prizes, publications, and other achievements are available on this site which is no longer maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the project having finished, its work continues under the auspices of ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancasterdh.org\/\">Digital Humanities Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021-1024x147.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-bg1_021.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021-1024x147.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a>\u00a9 Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS &amp; Places<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LancasterShield.png\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LancasterShield.png\" alt=\"LancasterShield\" width=\"191\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/European_Research_Council_logopng.png\" alt=\"European_Research_Council_logopng\" width=\"113\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ucrel.lancs.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/corpus01.jpg\" alt=\"corpus01\" width=\"111\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HISTORY-LOGO.gif\" alt=\"HISTORY-LOGO\" width=\"179\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address>This research project was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union\u2019s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7\/2007-2013) ERC grant \u2018Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, places\u2019 (agreement number 283850)<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This five-year project ran from 2012-16 and was funded by the European Research Council under a Starting Researcher Grant. 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