h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We’re in the process of putting together an h2g2 Edited Guide entry for each and every one of the UK’s Counties and Regions – and we’d like you to help us write them!

Ideally we’re looking for a volunteer to take on the job of putting together an entry on East Lothian, covering the following kind of basic information:

- General location in the UK, including all of the bordering regions.

- The main towns and cities there

- A very basic history of the region (which, for those created in more recent times might include a little background about the region before the county was formed). Some counties/regions will be famous for specific key events in history, which we'd also like to know about.

- Any geographical features (lakes in Cumbria, Peak District in Derbyshire, Pennines in Yorkshire/Greater Manchester)

- Links to other related entries for the region.

If you’ve also got the time, we’d love to see the following kind of thing in the entry too:

basic statistical data (population, size, house prices, etc); famous sons and daughters from that region (actors, sports stars, musicians?); any notable places to visit and things to do (castles, theme parks, shopping centres); TV/film appearances that might give people an idea of what the county is like, etc, etc.

If you feel that you haven’t got the time to devote to writing a whole County/Region by yourself, then please help us get the work up and going by posting any relevant facts, figures, bits of trivia or the like to this conversation thread – which will GREATLY help the person who eventually writes up the whole article. Thanks in advance for your contributions to this massive h2g2 project!

Cheers!

Paully

I'll do this one

Hurrah!

Cheers, Fords! But of course, if anyone has any ideas or suggestions or favourite trivial facts & figures, then I'm sure Fords won't object to seeing them popped onto this thread...

Paully

Not at all

I'm delighted to announce that we already have two County entries in Peer Review, waiting to receive any bouquets or brickbats that people might lob in their general direction! If you're currently either working on or contributing to a County entry of your own right now, you might like to have a quick look to see how some other researchers have tackled this challenge. They are: County Fermanagh (A6092606) and Norfolk (A6108473).

Hope you enjoy reading them!

Paully

"I'll do this one "

*ahem* need something to do in the last few weeks? We're offering T-shirts to anyone who'd like to help fill these last gaps in.

Ye gods, back for less than a week and I'm already being harassed to write again - it's nice to feel wanted!

Yeah go on then, I'll pick up on this one

Thank you very much!

Once it's been on the Front Page, if you email h2g2team AT (you know the rest) with your details we'll put one in the post for you. We may miss it if you post back to this thread.