WHG is a platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language.
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Technical Director: @docuracy.co.uk
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World Historical Gazetteer
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Image: Indigenous Place Names in North America, a WHG Place Collection at doi.org/10.60681/whg...
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🕵️We're transcribing and geocoding all 7 volumes of "A Gazetteer of the World" (1856), a monumental work edited anonymously by "a Member of the Royal Geographical Society" @rgs.org - can anyone suggest who that might have been, and why they might not have been named?
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