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Thanks both for interesting information and insights. Government policies certainly left much to be desired: eg if memory serves, four times more was spent compensating West Indies planters (abolition of slavery) than on famine relief in Ireland; and Sir Charles Trevelyn considered his policy in the latter so effective that he applied much or all of it to the next Indian famine. Owen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Staines" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:37 PM Subject: Re: AQMeN Event: A New View of the Irish Famine through Geographic Information Science and Geographically Weighted Regression > There were several famines, but there wasn't one in Ireland from 1865 to > 1869 - that is a fairly obvious typo. The worst Indian famines were in > 1770 - contributed to by the East India company policy of planting opium > poppies on food producing lands. There were severe famines in the Punjab > Orissa, Bengal and Rajputana in the period 1850 to 1880. These were > greatly exacerbated, as was the Irish famine, by British government > policies. The last major famine in India was in 1943. > Anthony > > On 06/12/11 17:17, William Stanbury wrote: >> Stimulating memories from my O level history lessons c30 years ago >> (I'm not an expert here); could it be that there was more than one >> famine that century? The British Empire back then wasn't especially >> great at avoiding or managing famines, thinking of India as an >> example. >> >> >> >> On 13 July 2010 16:36, owen murphy<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> As some readers will already know, the Great Irish Famine wreaked its >>> devastating effects over the period 1845 to 1851 approximately, and not >>> 1865 >>> to 1869 as the below posting has it. >>> >>> I drew the attention of the original poster to this error, offline, when >>> it >>> first appeared, suggesting that an amended note might be circulated, >>> but, >>> disappointingly, it has clearly not been considered to merit correction. >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie >>> Dickson"<[log in to unmask]> >>> To:<[log in to unmask]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:46 PM >>> Subject: AQMeN Event: A New View of the Irish Famine through Geographic >>> Information Science and Geographically Weighted Regression >>> >>> >>>> On the 8th December 2011, Professor A. Stewart Fotheringham, Professor >>>> of Human Geography, and Director, Centre for GeoInformatics, University >>>> of St. Andrews will present an evening lecture at the University of >>>> Dundee to which all AQMeN members are invited to attend. >>>> >>>> The Irish Famine was not only a pivotal period in Irish history but >>>> also had a major effect on the demographics and economies of countries >>>> such as the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. During a period between >>>> 1865 and 1869 approximately 1 million people died of famine-related >>>> deaths and 1 million people emigrated. This had an immediate impact on >>>> an island where the population was just over 8 million but it has had a >>>> long-term impact on population within Ireland where today the >>>> population >>>> is still about 1.5 million lower than it was in 1841. Because of its >>>> importance and impact, much has been written about the effects of the >>>> Irish famine but the geographical impacts have been dealt with fairly >>>> crudely. In this lecture, Professor Fotheringham will present a new, >>>> more >>>> detailed spatial view of the impacts of the famine and analyse why some >>>> places lost population at a much more devastating rate than others. 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