Free Historical GIS Seminar York 28 February 2007 – Booking Open During 2007 the ESRC, as part of the Historical Geographical Information Systems Research Network, is sponsoring a number of free seminars on the use of GIS to study the past. These will be led by Dr Ian Gregory, author of A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research. Historical GIS is a rapidly growing field within historical research. A Geographical Information System (GIS) is a form of database management system within which every row of data is linked to a co-ordinate-based location. By using GIS historians can structure, integrate, analyse and visualise the geographies of the past. The seminars will consist of a mixture of presentations and roundtable discussions and will help attendees to make better use of GIS in their research, by considering what exactly GIS has to offer historians, in what ways historians make, or would like to make, use of GIS in their research and what technological and methodological issues are faced. They are aimed at a broad audience including established academics, members of the heritage sector, junior researchers and post-graduates. The first seminar will take place in York on 28 February 2007. Places are limited and booking forms need to be returned by 15 December 2006. Further details of the seminar, including a downloadable booking form, can be found at http://ahds.ac.uk/history/hgis/seminar-york.htm Zoe Dr Zoe Bliss Acquisitions and Information Officer AHDS History UK Data Archive University of Essex Colchester C04 3SQ Phone: + 44 1206 872326 Fax: + 44 1206 872003