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1921 Census: Revealed

Dan Snow's History Hit

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We're Not So Different From Our Ancestors

Scotland organizes their own census, separate from england and wales. Their own 19 21 census will be available to the public in due course. But for scotland, they don't keep the original household returns. They've only kept the books that those responses were collected into by the enumerators. And is one lone household travelled to england and handed their census form in to the english authorities. That's now all that survives of the original 19 21 census of scotland. So one family, one family. We could say then that we're releasing the whole census of 19 21 for england, wales and scotland,. without exaggerating.

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