Tag: Census

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Webinar: Missing from the census?

Thursday 15 March 2018

Census records are invaluable sources of information for all family historians. But what if you can’t find your ancestor on the census? This webinar will look...

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Mapping Women’s Suffrage

Tuesday 24 October 2017

The women’s suffrage campaign in Britain was a particularly long and difficult struggle. It was fought by women and men in cities, towns and villages right ac...

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Webinar: Using the 1939 Register, recording the UK population before the war

Wednesday 13 January 2016

The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and as the uniformed army prepared to face the enemy, a civilian army was mobilised at h...

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Using the 1939 Register: Recording the UK population before the war

Tuesday 22 December 2015

The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and as the uniformed army prepared to face the enemy, a civilian army was mobilised at h...

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Vanishing for the Vote: diverse suffragettes boycott the 1911 census

Friday 6 March 2015

Vanishing for the Vote tells the story of what happened on census night, 2 April 1911. Despite decades of campaigning, no woman had won the right to vote. Suffr...

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Yapton: a Sussex parish seen through the census and parish records

Friday 13 September 2013

This talk looks beyond the names recorded in the parish registers and census records, which can contain a wealth of other information that can help to define th...

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No vote no census

Monday 5 March 2012

The National Archives held a one day conference at Kew on Saturday 1 October 2011. The conference brought together an audience wanting to know more about the ce...

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The 1911 Census: a vision of England

Friday 14 October 2011

The 1911 census was the 12th national census of the United Kingdom, and in many ways it represented a watershed in the history of census taking in this country...

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Solving census problems

Thursday 10 July 2008

David Annal takes a practical approach to overcoming the most common problems faced by family historians when using the 19th century census returns.  It may se...