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  <dc:title xml:lang="en">Great Britain Historical Database : Vital Statistics, Marriage Statistics, 1841-1914</dc:title>
  <dc:creator xml:lang="en">Gilbert, D. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography</dc:creator><dc:creator xml:lang="en">Southall, H. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography</dc:creator><dc:creator xml:lang="en">Gregory, I., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography</dc:creator>
  <dc:description xml:lang="en">&lt;P&gt;Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical Database&lt;/i&gt; has been assembled as part of the ongoing &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical GIS Project&lt;/i&gt;. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gbhdb/" target="_blank" style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 82, 124); text-decoration-line: underline;"&gt;A Vision of Britain webpages&lt;/a&gt;, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; The &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical GIS Project&lt;/i&gt; has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http:\\census.ukdataservice.ac.uk" title="UK Data Service Census Support" target="_blank"&gt;census.ukdataservice.ac.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description><dc:description xml:lang="en">&lt;B&gt;Main Topics&lt;/B&gt;:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;p&gt; The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Great Britain Historical Database&lt;/span&gt; is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Great Britain Historical Database &lt;/span&gt;currently contains :&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wage statistics, 1845-1906&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938&lt;br&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</dc:description><dc:description xml:lang="en">There are seven tables in this part of the &lt;i&gt;Great Britain Historical Database&lt;/i&gt; :&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;mar_rd&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for each registration district in England and Wales from 1841 to 1870.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;mar_1840&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for each registration district in England and Wales from 1841 to 1850.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;mar_1850&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for each registration district in England and Wales from 1851 to 1860.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;mar_1860&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for each registration district in England and Wales from 1861 to 1870.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;reg_gen_durham_1871-1914.tab&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for the County of Durham and its registration districts from 1871 to 1914.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;reg_gen_england_wales_1871-1914.tab&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for each county of England and Wales from 1871 to 1914.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;i&gt;reg_gen_lancashire_1871-1914.tab&lt;/i&gt; holds marriage statistics for the County of Lancashire and its registration districts from 1871 to 1914.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;</dc:description>
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