User-generated travelogues can generate much geographic data, containing abundant semantic and geographic information that reflects people’s movement patterns. The tourist movement patterns in travelogues can help others when planning trips, or understanding how people travel within certain regions. The trajectory data in travelogues might include tourist attractions, restaurants and other loca...

Download ArticleBy Bob Bennett (University of Cambridge, UK) A new resource has been launched that gives insights into the development entrepreneurship up to start 20th century. It enables Regional Studies researchers, students and schools look at geography entrepreneurs recorded in censuses England, Wales Scotland […]

In the article a prayer against gout from the early 19th century is analysed, which reflects the surviving medieval theurgical view of healing. It also sheds light on a less known sphere of Croatian Glagolitic texts, i.e. on texts with medical content written in Glagolitic script in Croatian lands.

the invention of higher tonnage steamships and the opening of the suez canal instead of the way of southern africa, created significant changes on commercial affairs of 19th century. the iranian southern ports, accessing to the open seas through the persian gulf, had benefited such development. this article is indirectly trying to analyze the impact of the suez canal on iranian ports on the bas...

Travel writing has enjoyed continuous success since the Renaissance, and has been an important factor in shaping perceptions of individual and group identities. Especially during the second half of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century travelogues constituted an influential part of the discourse on culture, and helped, through their descriptions of the foreign and a reaff...