Census and Social Structure

Richard Lawton is Professor of Geography and head of the Department in the University of Liverpool. He has written on population trends and mobility in nineteenth-century England and has recently completed a study of the social geography of mid­ Victorian Liverpool.

1. Introduction 2. The census enumerators' books: a commentary 3. Census data for urban areas 4. Birthplace statistics and the analysis of internal migration 5. Occupation statistics in the nineteenth century censuses 6. The social structure of nineteenth century England as seen through the Census 7. Education in England and Wales in 1851: the Education Census of Great Britain,1851 8. The Religious Census of 1851