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Mapping the Scottish Reformation

A video interview with Chris Langley and Mikki Brock, co-directors of the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project.

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Six in six minutes - 3 students and 3 staff discuss Wikipedia in the Classroom at the University of Edinburgh

Contributors include:Karoline Nanfeldt - 4th year Psychology undergraduate student. Tomas Sanders - 4th year History undergraduate student. Aine Kavanagh - Senior Hons. Reproductive Biology student.…

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Professor Louise Jackson -Social History- Research in a Nutshell

Louise talks about her area of research.

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MESH: Lost Edinburgh

Video about the MESH tool that searches the "Lost Edinburgh's" Facebook images. The MESH project - Mapping Edinburgh's Social History - combines the rich, detailed OpenStreetMap…

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MESH: Geocoder

Video about the MESH geocoding tool. The Mapping Edinburgh's Social History (MESH) project team has developed a tool that converts address-based information into a map superimposed either on a…

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MESH: Creating a new mapping framework for Edinburgh

The MESH project - Mapping Edinburgh's Social History - superimposes historical data on geo-referenced historical maps. The video explores how surveying almost 100,000 buildings, assigning…

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MESH: Comparing changes in the city

This MESH video shows how new tools improve our understanding of the processse of historical change in the city. The tools include multiple (2, 4 or 6) synchronised screens of Edinburgh maps at…

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