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[History by Numbers] Shades of the trades

How different censuses recorded our ancestors' working lives

Andrew Chapman
Apr 21, 2023
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As well as providing details of individuals’ lives, census records also represent huge aggregations of data about the country as a whole. Among other things, we can see general occupational trends over time.

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