1851 Census Principal Towns Occupational Data

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>These data were collected as part of a research project run by Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Professor E.A. Wrigley and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: Male occupational structure and economic growth in England 1750-1851 (RES-000-23-0131). <br> <br> The aim of this project was to reconstruct the evolution of England's male occupational structure from c.1750 to 1851.

The underlying aim was to improve our understanding of the industrial revolution. The results of the project have not, at the time of writing, been published.<br>