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A Demographic Analysis of a Subdivided Population, 1851-1871
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to carry out a demographic analysis of the subdivided population of the Scilly Isles using parish registers, Methodist church registers, and census enumerators' books.Main Topics:Variables
Baptism Records
Date of baptism, name, gender, whether illegitimate, date of birth if...
Atlas of Agriculture in England and Wales, c.1840
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to produce a computer atlas of agriculture in England and Wales circa 1840. The tithe surveys were made following the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 which ended tithe payments to the Church. It was the largest survey of land use, ownership and occupation since the Domesday...
Peasant Land Market in Southern England, 1260-1350
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aims of this research project were:
1) To collect information relating to the peasant land market on the estates of the bishopric of Winchester in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
2) To determine the number and variety of transactions in land on these estates and their fluctuations over...
Social History of Alcohol in East Africa, 1850-1998
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aims of this project were:
To re-examine the historical patterns of change in the making and drinking of alcohol in East Africa, and to use this history of change as a tool for studying wider debates concerning control of resources within the household, and for exploring ideas of what constitutes...
Name, Residence, Vote and Occupation for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield General Elections
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The research project set out in 1985 to investigate the claim made by Martin J. Wiener in <i>English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit: 1850-1980</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1982) that Tory political support was inimical to the growth of industrial capitalism. An ancillary...
Origins and Characteristics of Scottish Business Leaders, 1850-1960s
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The primary aim was to identify the economic and social characteristics of Scotland's business leaders circa 1850-1960, on the basis of the sample of men surveyed in the two volumes of the Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography. This aim guided the structure of the computer database which was designed...
Marriage Litigation in Scotland, 1694-1830
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to transcribe and analyse the records of all declarator of marriage and declarator of freedom cases in the Edinburgh Commissary Court between 1684, when a register of extracted decreets began to be kept, and 1830, when the court was wound up and its functions transferred to the...
Modernity and Multi-Storey Living : Apartment Tenants in Canadian Cities, 1900-1939
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The focus of the research has been to investigate the role of apartment housing in the social geography of two Canadian cities - Toronto and Winnipeg - in the period 1900-1939, in the context of debates about 'spaces of modernity' in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities. The project aimed to...
Docquets of Lord Keeper Coventry, 1625-1640
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to provide a calendar of all items in the Birmingham Reference Library's collection of the official papers of the Lord Keeper Thomas Coventry for use alongside Public Record Office sources for Chancery activities, and as a finding aid for individuals and grants within the Patent...
Parliamentary Poll Books of Colchester, Essex, 1806, 1807 and 1812
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This dataset was created to demonstrate the record linkage possibilities for the software kleio.Main Topics:The dataset contains a machine-readable transcription of the 1806, 1807 and 1812 poll books for Colchester. It contains four tables: the first three tables contain the voting choices of each elector...
Social History of the Welsh Language : Evidence of the 1891 Census; Project 2
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aims of the project were as follows :
to collect and process information from the data relating to the Welsh language in the 1891 Census Enumerators' Returns in 20 selected communities in Wales;
to create computer-readable data files on the language ability of around 90,000 individuals, i.e. five per...
Liverpool Community, 1649-1750
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of the project was to investigate the character of Liverpool society during the first century of its rapid commercial expansion, and in particular to address the question whether its social characteristics help to explain the dynamic nature of its economic growth. The particular questions...
Residence and Kinship in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, 1558-1804
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study of the parish of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, is mainly intended to contribute to the current debate about rural industry and the circumstances under which it became a full factory industry in some areas but not in others. Stonehouse is in the upper Stroudwater district, a former centre of the...
Westminster Historical Database, 1749-1820; Voters Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aims of the project were to:
1. Complete and validate the <i>Westminster Historical Database</i> by including all extant poll book records together with selected rate book records for Westminster between 1749 and 1820;
2. Design and execute experiments on the practice of record...
Genevan Sex Crimes Database, c.1440-c.1790
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The study examined in detail over 300 criminal trials surviving in Geneva relating to sexual deviance (homosexuality, male rape/sexual assault, paedophilia, lesbianism, bestiality, adolescent sexual experimentation, female rape/sexual assault, adultery and fornication). These trials, in which verbatim...
Violence in the North West with Special Reference to Liverpool and Manchester 1850-1914
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project was intended to investigate all forms of interpersonal violence, from common assault to murder, in the second half of the 19th century, and to attempt to differentiate and contextualise the range of violent offences. The aims of the project were to:
1. Expand and enhance historical...
National Sample from the 1881 Censuses of Great Britain
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This computerised transcription of the census enumerators' books for the 1881 Census for England, Scotland and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is a by-product of a project to create a microfiche index of the population of Great Britain for genealogists. Covering the entire enumerated...
Burial Registers for Kingston upon Thames Parishes, 1850-1901 and Bonner Hill Cemetery, 1855-1911
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.These data have been generated as part of the work being undertaken by the Kingston Local History Project. The aim of this project is to create a comprehensive database covering the people who lived, worked and died in Kingston upon Thames between 1850 and 1911. The core of the database is the census...
Violence in Early Modern England: a Regional Survey: Cheshire, 1600-1800
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this project was to carry out a systematic investigation and analysis of crimes of violence tried in the courts of the county of Cheshire, in the period 1601-1800. The core of the study is formed by details of homicides prosecuted at the Court of Great Sessions at Chester over this period,...
UK Business Data Survey, 2021
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The UK Business Data Survey (UKBDS), commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, began in 2021. The survey is a telephone- and online-based quantitative and qualitative study of UK businesses. It gathers evidence on the importance and awareness of digital data use for UK...
UK Business Data Survey, 2022
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The UK Business Data Survey (UKBDS), commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, began in 2021. The survey is a telephone- and online-based quantitative and qualitative study of UK businesses. It gathers evidence on the importance and awareness of digital data use for UK...
Kenya Educational and Social Survey, 1969
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to collect information about the aspirations, social background and examination performance of Kenyan secondary school pupils. Intended as the first stage of a panel survey, periodic follow-up studies were planned to monitor their subsequent employment status and rate of...
Sheffield Club Membership Book, 1873-1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The data were originally collected as background material to a PhD which investigated the claim made by Martin J. Wiener in <i>English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit: 1850-1980</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1982) that Tory political support was inimical to the growth of...
Metropolitan Market Networks, c.1300-1600; London, its Region and the Economy of England
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project sought to further understanding of London's dynamic role within the economy of its region, and of England as a whole, between c.1300 and c.1600. It sought to clarify the parallels between the medieval and early modern periods and to explore the dynamics of change by assembling data relating to...
Town and Countryside in West Berkshire, c.1400-1600
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project was an investigation into the nature of social and economic change during the transition from the late medieval to early modern periods. This was achieved through a detailed study of urban and rural areas of western Berkshire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The project aimed to...
Baltic Iron and the Organisation of the British Iron Market in the Eighteenth Century
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The project was concerned with the role of international commerce and mercantile networks in the early phases of British industrialisation. Specifically, it was concerned with the operation of the market for malleable bar iron. Between 1650 and 1800 domestic ironmasters were unable to meet the growing...
Staffordshire Landowners, 1873
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The main aim of the project was to create from the return of owners in 1873 an accurate list of landowners for Staffordshire. This could be compared with Bateman's calculations of the number of owners in individual counties and the whole of England and Wales according to certain categories of status....
Suffolk Census Data, 1851-1876
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study involved placing on computer tape the census returns of a selection of Suffolk parishes for 1851, as well as some 1861, 1871 and 1876 data, for the purpose of teaching computer assisted method in local history research.Main Topics:Variables
For each person, name, addres, sex, age, occupation,...
Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086; second edition
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The text of Domesday Book is notoriously ambiguous, its array of social and economic statistics hitherto inaccessible, and the majority of individuals and many places unidentified. This electronic edition aims to make Domesday Book both more accessible and more intelligible by presenting its contents in a...
1851 Census : Berkhamsted Superintendent Registrar's District, Hertfordshire
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this project was to analyse population, economy and social and family structure in mid-19th century Hertfordshire, in comparative perspective.
The 1851 census was the first to provide details of both county and town or parish of birth of each individual, whilst clearer instructions were...