Demography from the Census

This set of pages draws together a range of projects which use individual level census information from digitised transcriptions of census enumerators' books for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, between 1851 and 1911, sometimes combining this with data from other sources.

Overview

The importance of the census for nineteenth century demography and social structure.

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Research projects

Find out more about our research projects.

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Public engagement

Find out about our Online Atlas, and resources for schools, historians, and the general public.

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Academic outputs

Journal articles, reports and datasets.

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People

Find out who is involved in this research programme.

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Acknowledgements

Our funders and third-party dataset acknowledgements.

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