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The census issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While aggregate data is immediately useful for public administration, it is the detailed records only made public one hundred years later that are of most use to those interested in geneaolgy and individual buildings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The making of the modern census\u00a0<\/strong><em>Nigel Goose\u00a0<\/em>examines the development of the census in the Victorian period and its use by historians today<\/p>\n<p><strong>The census and Victorian housing\u00a0<\/strong><em>Colin Thom<\/em>\u00a0describes how he has used the census in his research into London history<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 1851 religious census<\/strong>\u00a0We focus on some places of worship highlighted in this unique mid-Victorian survey<\/p>\n<p><strong>House Notes: Using archival sources to inform conservation work\u00a0<\/strong>by\u00a0<em>Moses Jenkins<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2011 Census day is 27 March 2011. 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