This is the online release of the 1901 census for England and Wales. The census details personal information for all persons living in England at the time and is understandably a necessary stop for anyone wanting to document family and social history. Initial response literally has been overwhelming and "exceeded expectations by a factor of 20."

Recently placed online by the UK House of Commons Library (reviewed in the June 5, 1998 Scout Report), this paper offers short summaries of selected UK social and economic trends since 1900. Preceded by a brief introduction, the paper contains graphs, tables, and key facts covering a number of sectors, including population, health, education, defense, crime, transport, energy, economy, and...

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, life for women in Britain was much different in many regards than in the present day. Women could not join the professions, and married women had no rights to property. By the time of Queen Victoria, women's lives had become even more transformed, and this change produced new feminine roles and also produced a clutch of great poets,...

The BBC is known around the world for its vast collection of audio and visual material that dates back to the corporation's earliest days. Drawing on these vast resources, the BBC has established this Web site (in conjunction with a living history television show) to place some of these materials online, available for the general public. The site itself is divided into five broad themes, including...

Part social history, part public documentary, Peter Higginbotham has created a Web site devoted to the workhouse, a feature of the English landscape for over two hundred years that provided employment for the destitute in return for board and lodging. Through a series of primary documents, including the Poor Laws of the 19th century, Mr. Higginbotham offers a descriptive and nuanced perspective on...

Old newspapers are engaging for a wide range of people, including historians and journalists. Access to digitized newspapers has been increasing in the past few years, and a number of specialized projects have popped up at institutions like the Library of Congress and the British Library. In fact, the British Library has created this rather excellent site to provide detailed access to papers like...