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The Party Page Carried the Message: Fidesz, Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian Opposition on Facebook, 2014 to 2020
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Did Brexit Travel? Eurosceptic Parties across Europe on Facebook after the 2016 Referendum
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Count the Interactions, Not the Score: What CrowdTangle's Overperforming Score Measures in Archived Facebook Data
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Who Keeps the Crowd? Party Splits and Facebook Engagement in Europe, 2011 to 2019
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Less Is More? Post Length and Engagement on the Facebook Pages of European Parties and Leaders, 2010 to 2020
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More Votes Than Interactions: Romanian Parties and Politicians on Facebook, 2011 to 2020
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Small Parties, Big Pages: Engagement and the Vote among Finnish Parties on Facebook, 2010 to 2020
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The Quiet Centre: Portuguese Parties and Politicians on Facebook, 2010 to 2020
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The Health Minister's Spring: Alain Berset, Covid-19 and Swiss Parties and Politicians on Facebook, 2015 to 2020
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Ahead of the Crisis? Radical Right Parties on Facebook and the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Europe
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A Dip, Not a Decline: Engagement per Follower on the Facebook Pages of European Parties and Leaders, 2016 to 2020
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Where Parties Send People: The Destinations of Links Posted by European Parties and Leaders on Facebook, 2010 to 2020
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European or National? Common and National Swings in Facebook Engagement with European Parties and Leaders, 2013 to 2020
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Who Pays for the Party? The Structure of British Party Advertising on Meta, 2019 to 2026
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Paid and Earned on Facebook: Do British Parties Pay for the Pages that People Engage With?
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Hits or the Long Tail? How Concentrated Is the Facebook Engagement of European Parties and Leaders, 2010 to 2020
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Do Likes Predict Votes? Facebook Engagement and Election Results in Europe, 2010 to 2020
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Leader or Party? How Facebook Engagement Divided between European Party Leaders and Their Parties, 2010 to 2020
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Looking Them Up: Wikipedia Attention, Facebook Engagement and Votes for European Parties, 2015 to 2020
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The Pivot to Video: How European Parties and Leaders Changed What They Posted on Facebook, and What It Got Them, 2010 to 2020
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Building an Audience: What Drove Growth in the Facebook Followings of European Parties and Leaders, 2016 to 2020
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Second-Order Campaigns on Facebook? European Parliament and National Elections on European Party Pages, 2014 and 2019
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Posting in Office Hours? When European Parties Post on Facebook and When Their Posts Do Best, 2010 to 2020
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New Leader, New Audience? Party Leadership Changes and Facebook Engagement in Europe, 2010 to 2020
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After the Votes Are Counted: Facebook Engagement with European Parties around National Elections, 2010 to 2020
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Equal on Facebook? Engagement and Vote Shares of European Parties, 2010 to 2020
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Is There a Newness Premium? New Parties and Engagement on Facebook in Europe, 2010 to 2020
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Does Posting More Pay? Posting Volume and Engagement on the Facebook Pages of European Parties and Leaders, 2010 to 2020
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Shared More, Liked Less? Facebook's 2018 News Feed Change and the Pages of European Parties and Leaders
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Love, Anger and Laughter: Do Women and Men Leading European Parties Get Different Reactions on Facebook?
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Does the Democracy Matter? Party Facebook Engagement in Six Smaller European Democracies, 2010 to 2020
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Does Facebook Lead Public Attention or Follow It? Facebook Engagement, Wikipedia Pageviews and Google Searches for British Parties and Leaders, 2015 to 2020
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What Earns Engagement? Hand-Coded Content and Facebook Interactions on British Party and Leader Pages, 2015 and 2017
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Does Governing Cost Parties Attention on Facebook? Incumbency, Coalitions and Engagement in Europe, 2010 to 2020
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A Smaller Rally: Governing and Opposition Pages on Facebook in Europe's First Covid-19 Wave
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Angrier, or Just More Expressive? Facebook Reactions to European Parties and Leaders, 2016 to 2020
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Engagement Is Not a Poll: Facebook and 31 European Elections, 2011 to 2020
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The Party, Not the Leader: Sweden's Party Leaders on Facebook, 2015 to 2020
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Party Before Leader? Leaders' and Party Pages on Facebook in Spain, 2015 to 2020
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Loudest at the Edges: Belgian Politicians on Facebook and the 2019 Election
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Bigger Page, Fewer Votes: SYRIZA, New Democracy and Facebook in Greece, 2015 to 2020
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Loud on Facebook: French Party Pages and the Vote, 2016 to 2020
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Not a Forecast: The radical right on Facebook in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 2014 to 2020
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Launched the Same Week: Podemos, Vox and Facebook in Spain, 2014 to 2020
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After the Referendum: The SNP, Plaid Cymru and Facebook, 2014 to 2020
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Ahead of the Polls? Sinn Féin, Facebook and the 2020 Irish general election
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New Leader, New Crowd: Labour's Facebook comment section from Miliband to Corbyn
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Outdrawing the Candidate: A campaign-linked page and the Facebook campaigns of Trump and Biden in 2020
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A Pause in the Mockery: Government, party and politician pages on Facebook in Britain's first Covid-19 wave
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Different Campaigns, Similar Totals: Republican and Democratic Senate candidates on Facebook in 2020
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What Does a Satellite Campaign Do? Momentum, the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn on Facebook in the 2017 general election
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One City, Two Comment Sections: Toxicity and identity on Sadiq Khan's and Zac Goldsmith's Facebook pages, 2016
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Setting the Tone or Supplying the Words? Donald Trump's Facebook posts and the hostility of his comment section in the 2016 Republican primaries
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Who Speaks in the Candidate's Comment Section? Participation, toxicity and reward on Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's Facebook pages in 2016
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Follow the Leader? How British parties divided the work between leader pages and party pages on Facebook at the 2015 and 2017 general elections
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From the Doorstep to the Debate: Momentum's Facebook page in the 2017 general election and the 2018 permanent campaign
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Who Gets to Be in the Picture? Political identity ownership on Labour and Conservative Facebook pages at the 2015 and 2017 general elections
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Do Populists Win on Facebook? The engagement premium of populist parties in Europe, 2010 to 2020
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Same Message, Thousands of Times: Targeted Facebook advertising by British parties at the 2017 and 2019 general elections
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Who Carries the Party on Facebook? Leaders, party pages and the polls in Britain, 2010 to 2020
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Did YouTube Attention Predict How Counties Voted in 2016? Evidence from the Trump and Clinton campaigns
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Who Won the Facebook Referendum? Engagement, tone and nationalism on UK party and campaign pages, February to June 2016
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What Went Viral on Britain First's Facebook Page? Outrage, questions and the cost of mobilisation, 2013 to 2018
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How do political parties use Facebook and what does it offer to their campaigns?
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What does a satellite campaign do? The use of Momentum in Labour's 2017 General Election Facebook campaign
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"Behind the curtain of the targeting machine": political parties A/B testing in action
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Drowned and Rising: A Bathtub Model of Britain and the World from the Last Glacial Maximum to an Ice-Free Earth
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How Many Months a Year Are Pleasantly Warm? Pleasant Months in the Climate of 1970 to 2000 and 2041 to 2060 from WorldClim
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Sun and Rain: The World's Sunshine Against Its Rainfall. A Bivariate Reading of the CRU CL 2.0 Climatology, 1961 to 1990
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Sun and Rain: The United Kingdom's Sunshine Against Its Rainfall at 1 km, 1961 to 2020
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When Did Your Town Last See a Total Eclipse? Every Path of Totality over Britain and Ireland, AD 1000 to 2200
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Governing on the Move: Where England's Kings Slept. Itineraries of Henry II, John, Edward I and Elizabeth I as Data
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Turnpikes and Coaching Towns: England's Turnpike Trusts, Their Surviving Milestones and the Growth of Towns
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Did the Pits Closing Still Show? Britain's Coalfield Towns, 1984 to 2021
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What's the King on Your Postbox? Royal Cyphers on the Post Boxes of the United Kingdom in OpenStreetMap
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Britain's Earthquakes Since 1382: Clusters, Coalfields and How Often the Big Ones Come
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The Lido Boom and Bust: Britain's Open-Air Pools, 1815 to 2026
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Bombs on Britain: Where the Air Raids Killed, 1914 to 1945. Civilian Deaths Town by Town from the CWGC Roll and the First World War Raids
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Where Are Britain's Oldest Trees? Notable, Veteran and Churchyard Trees in OpenStreetMap
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Ring the Changes: Where England's Bells Hang. A Data Study of Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers
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How Many Names on Your War Memorial? Counting the First World War Dead Place by Place in the War Memorials Register
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Did the Railway Invent the Seaside? Census Growth of British Resorts Before and After the Line Arrived, 1801 to 1911
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Captain Swing: Did the Riots Follow the Machines? A Parish-Level Look at the Swing Riots of 1830 to 1832
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Market Towns That Failed: What Became of the Medieval Market Places of England and Wales
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Britain's Last Line of Defence: Pillboxes, Stop Lines and the Sea Lion Coast in the Defence of Britain Database
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Did Beeching Kill Your Town? Britain's Lost Railway Towns, 1955 to 2021
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Millstreams: Domesday Mill Places, Modern Traces of Mills and the Textile Mills that Went Elsewhere
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Ley Lines, Tested: Are Ancient Sites in Britain Lined Up More Than Chance Allows?
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Barm, bap, cob or roll? Mapping Britain's bread roll lines from 20,000 survey answers
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Where the Devil Lives: Devil Place Names, Prehistoric Monuments and Saints in Britain
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Did Fairy Belief Protect Ireland's Ringforts? Ringforts and Other Earthworks on the Ordnance Survey Maps and in the Sites and Monuments Record
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Haunted, or Just Old? Britain and Ireland's Reportedly Haunted Places against Its Oldest Notable Buildings
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Giants in the Landscape: Did People Explain Big Things with Big People?
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Great Fires: Did the Towns That Burned Rebuild Bigger?
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Who Gets a Blue Plaque? Gender, Occupation and Place in Britain's Commemorative Plaques
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Rotten Boroughs: Where Are They Now? England's Disfranchised Boroughs of 1832 and Their Places Today
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Minted: The Anglo-Saxon and Norman Mint Towns of England and What Became of Them
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Canal Mania: Did England's Canal Towns Boom, and Do They Still Lead?
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Here Be Dragons: The Dragons, Worms and Wyrms of British Folklore and Place Names
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Cholera 1849: Low Ground, Bad Water and a Long Shadow in London
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The Roman Commuter Belt? Roman Villas and Household Income in England and Wales
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Laid Waste: The Harrying of the North in Domesday Book and Today
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Fire on the Hills: How Fast Could the Armada Beacons Carry the News?
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Ford or Bridge? Crossing Names and Wealth in Britain Today
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Gallows Hill: Where Britain Put Its Execution Places
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The Conquest in Castles: Dating the Spread of Norman Castles across Britain, 1066 to 1199
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From Saint to Wish: Mapping the Holy and Wishing Wells of Britain and Ireland
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Still Standing: Why Buildings from Before AD 1100 Survive, in Wikidata
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There and Back Again: Mapping 43 Great Journeys and Grading the Evidence That They Happened
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Same Shape, Different Millennia: Stone Circles in Europe's Open Data
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Is the Barrow a European Thing? Mapping and Dating Europe's Burial Mounds
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The Megalith Highway: Did the Idea of the Great Stone Tomb Travel by Sea?
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What Became of the Abbeys? The Afterlives and Settings of the Religious Houses Closed 1536 to 1540
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Whose Church Is It? Church Dedications and Holy Wells across Western Europe
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Where Was the Battle? Testing Proposed Sites of Lost Early Battles in Britain against their Texts
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Silver and Names: Viking Hoards and Norse Place Names in Britain
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Cold Years, Witch Years? Scotland's Witch Panics and the Little Ice Age, 1563 to 1736
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The Villages That Vanished: Size, Setting and Timing of England's Deserted Medieval Villages
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Bloody Place Names: Do Britain's Battle Names Mark Real Battles?
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Whose Ships Sank Where? Flags of Shipwrecks in Europe's Seas, 1744 to 1945
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Far from Home: Birthplaces, Places of Action and Distance for the Victoria Cross, 1854 to 2013
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The geography of saints: church dedications across Great Britain mapped from OpenStreetMap: data and code
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What pub names remember: every named pub in Great Britain in OpenStreetMap, grouped by name and mapped: data and code
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Thankful Villages: luck or size? Parish size and the chance that every serviceman returned from the First World War: data and code
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Is there a barrow in Barrow? Old English beorg place-names and scheduled burial mounds in England: data and code
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Did Lighthouses Work? Shipwreck Records before and after First Lighting on the British and Irish Coasts, 1750 to 1913
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Within Sight: Line-of-Sight Networks among 4,147 Hillforts in Britain and Ireland
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Dale, Down, Fell and Beck: Mapping the Landscape Vocabulary of Great Britain
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Is Domesday Destiny? Size in 1086 and Size Today in 7,641 English Parishes
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How Roman is your road? Data and code
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Did Detectorists start a boom? Data and code
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The Famous Few: Size, Fame and Online Attention to 4,147 Hillforts in Britain and Ireland
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Permanent satellite campaigning? Momentum across the 2017 General Election and 2018 permanent campaign
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Labour's 2017 General Election campaign: what sets Momentum apart from the leader and party page?
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Is it party leader pages or party pages that matter most on UK Facebook?
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Researching Facebook in troubled times
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Facebook and Big Data: has it changed party campaigning in Britain forever? (with D. Cutts)
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Trump v Biden: who is engaging the most followers on Facebook?
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Political Content on Social Media 2020
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Brexit and election advertising: an asset for some, a liability for others
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General Election 2019: what are the parties telling us via their targeted adverts?
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The digital campaign: targeted advertising in the 2019 General Election
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We need to talk about A/B testing: Brexit, attack ads and the election campaign
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Facebook risks starting a war on knowledge
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Facebook is restricting search results: is this taking transparency seriously?
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Kodachrome Magnificence: a foray into a grandfather's life through images of work and pleasure
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