Great Britain Historical Database : Geographical Units and Changes, 1888-1973

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>The <i>Great Britain Historical Database</i> has been assembled as part of the ongoing <i>Great Britain Historical GIS Project</i>. 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&nbsp;<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;">A Vision of Britain webpages</a>, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.<br></p><p>
The <i>Great Britain Historical GIS Project</i> has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at&nbsp;<a href="http:\\census.ukdataservice.ac.uk" title="UK Data Service Census Support" target="_blank">census.ukdataservice.ac.uk</a></p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><p> The <span style="font-style: italic;">Great Britain Historical Database</span> 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.<br>
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The <span style="font-style: italic;">Great Britain Historical Database </span>currently contains :<br></p><ul><li>Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861<br>
</li><li>Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931<br>
</li><li>Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931<br>
</li><li>Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920<br>
</li><li>Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870<br>
</li><li>Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918<br>
</li><li>Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912<br>
</li><li>Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939<br>
</li><li>Wage statistics, 1845-1906<br>
</li><li>Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913<br>
</li><li>Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938<br>
</li></ul><br>There are four tables in this part of the <i>Great Britain Historical Database</i>, providing a comprehensive account of changing administrative units in England and Wales over the period from 1888 to 1973:<br>
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<i>Lgd</i> holds all the local government districts (county boroughs, London boroughs, municipal boroughs, rural districts and urban districts) in the GIS and acts as a gazetteer between the GIS and the <i>Great Britain Historical Database</i>.<br>
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<i>Main_ch</i> holds the total information about each change, e.g. date, total population, total area, type of change, etc (This table is currently unavailable).<br>
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<i>Sub_area</i> holds details of all the sub areas (ideally civil parishes) affected by the changes (This table is currently unavailable).<br>
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<i>Lgd_to_cha</i> acts as a lookup table between <i>lgd</i> and <i>main_ch</i> (This table is currently unavailable).<br>
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Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br>
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