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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Mystery solved! See bsky.app/profile/whga...
🕵️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?
archive.org/details/agaz...