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Random Survey of Public Attitudes to Museums, Archaeology and the Past, 1985
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this survey was to gauge for the first time public attitudes to, and participation in, <i>heritage presentations</i>; to understand why certain social groups tend to participate and others do not; to gauge public images of and attitudes to archaelogy and the past. The data, covering...
Coventry and Liverpool Lives Oral History Collection, c.1945-1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The Coventry and Liverpool Lives oral history project collected 58 oral history interviews with 21 men and women who have lived and worked in these cities since approximately 1945. The project aimed to explore how working-class men and women narrate their life...
Archbishop Thomson's Visitation Returns for the Diocese of York, 1865
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This database was compiled as part of a project preparing a scholarly printed edition of the clergy visitation returns at Archbishop Thomson's Primary Visitation in 1865.Main Topics:The database provides information on 659 returns from the Diocese of York in 1865 under the following headings: number and...
Liverpool Jewry Historical Database, 1740-1881
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Liverpool Jewish community was the earliest to be formed in the north of England (approximately 1745). Examination of this important minority community, from a religious, historical, demographic, sociological, and genealogical perspective has been severely hampered by the lack of a unified source of...
Historical Consciousness in Finland 2010: Interviews
The qualitative study charted historical consciousness and notions of the past in Finland. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews. The interviewee sample was randomly drawn from among the individuals who had responded to a survey on the same subject in 2009 (FSD2932) and had indicated willingness to participate in a subsequent interview. In addition, students of...
Brain Drain Debate in the United Kingdom, c.1950-1970
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This qualitative project sought to provide an analysis of the 'brain drain' debate of the 1950s and 1960s as a social phenomenon.
The term 'brain drain' was adopted in the 1960s in the context of concerns the United Kingdom was losing skilled scientific and engineering personnel to other countries....
Victorian Voting: the Origins of Party orientation and Class Alignment, 1832-1868: Replication Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This data collection contains the replication data for "Victorian Voting: The Origins of Party Orientation and Class Alignment". The collection includes information on voters' social class and vote choices in three English constituencies (Ashford, Guildford, and Sandwich) over the years 1832-1868. The...
Knowledge and Perceptions of the First World War, 2013: a Seven-Country Survey
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Used to inform the British Council’s publication on the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, 'Remember the World as Well as the War', the Knowledge and Perceptions of the First World War study contains the results of a survey carried out online in September 2013 by YouGov on behalf of the...
Public Petitions to the House of Commons, 1780-1918
The data contains two files that together record and classify over one million public petitions to the House of Commons, 1780-1918, by the subjects that they addressed, which in turn are placed into broader categories to facilitate analysis. For the 1833 to 1918 period, the data also records the 165 million signatures on public petitions to the House of Commons, classified...