The Occupational Structure of Nineteenth Century Britain

This project has been generously funded by the ESRC (RES-000-23-1579). It is part of a larger ongoing programme of research The occupational structure of Britain 1379-1911, which is directed by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley and has been awarded British Academy Research Project status. The wider project aims ultimately to reconstruct the evolution of the occupational structure of Britain from the late medieval period down to the late nineteenth century. The underlying aim of the project is to improve our understanding both of the first Industrial Revolution and of the centuries of economic development which preceded it and to put our work in a comparative context. This project focusses on the nineteenth century but the creation of a quasi-census of male occupations c.1817 provides a critical resource for work on earlier periods.

• Publications and publication plans
• Papers, reports and conference presentations
• International comparisons
• Mapping the male occupational geography of England and Wales c.1817-1881
• Mapping the population geography of England and Wales 1801-1891
• Mapping the occupational geography of Britain 1851 to 1911 for males and females
• PowerPoint slides for school teachers and university lecturers
• Population and Occupational datasets created by the project
• Occupational coding – the PST system
• GIS boundary datasets created by the project
• The codebook of Anglican registration units
• Examples of other scholars using our datasets
• Data access and collaborative possibilities
• People working on the project