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August 1, 2022 · announcements

Early Modern London Shapefiles

By Jessica Otis

geography

The team is excited to announce that shapefiles for 17th and 18th century London are now available on our GitHub: https://github.com/chnm/bom/tree/main/parish-shapefiles

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