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192 Cambridge Mapping Project Solves a Medieval Murder

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/06/2025 23:30 EDT

Cambridge Mapping Project Solves a Medieval Murder

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2019, we told you about a new interactive digital "murder map" of London compiled by University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner. Drawing on data catalogued in the city coroners' rolls, the map showed the approximate location of 142 homicide cases in late medieval London. The Medieval Murder Maps project has since expanded to include maps of York and Oxford homicides, as well as podcast episodes focusing on individual cases. It's easy to lose

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