PinnedMap Max·Sep 6, 2022Mapping Revachol, Part I: Starting PointsThis is something unrelated to my previous posts (there will be more Brazil at some vague point — maybe even somewhat sooner than expected…
Map Max·Oct 5, 2025Trams in Gothenburg, 27 September 2025This is going to be something a little bit different. On Saturday the 27th of September, I went on a day trip to Gothenburg, Sweden’s…
Map Max·Mar 6, 2024One Too Many Republics: France 1956The victory for the Third Force in 1951 appeared to give the Fourth Republic a respite. The economy was finally starting to recover, and…
Map Max·Feb 28, 2024One Too Many Republics: France 1951With the Constitution approved and the 1946 legislative election returning a healthy majority for the governing three-party coalition…
Map Max·Feb 21, 2024One Too Many Republics: France 1945–46On the 8th of May, 1945, the Second World War’s European theatre came to a close. The guns stopped firing across Europe, and the French…
Map Max·Feb 19, 2024Finland Votes 2024: for what, though?Last Sunday, the 11th of February, Finland held the second round of its sixth fully-direct presidential election. Previously elected…
Map Max·Feb 13, 2024A Century (roughly) of UK General Elections: 1935With a huge majority in hand, the National Government carried on under MacDonald’s leadership for four years. However, MacDonald himself…
Map Max·Feb 13, 2024A Century (roughly) of UK General Elections: 1931MacDonald’s second administration, like his first, was a minority, but this time Labour were at least the largest party in the House of…
Map Max·Feb 7, 2024A Century (roughly) of UK General Elections: 1929Stanley Baldwin’s second ministry, backed as it was by over four hundred votes in the House of Commons, would last a full parliamentary…
Map Max·Jan 31, 2024A Century (roughly) of UK General Elections: 1924The MacDonald ministry marked a turning point in British political history. For the first time, a socialist party formed the government…
