Local Communities in the Victorian Census Enumerators' Books

One of the key documentary sources for the study of the Victorian period, the census enumerators' books contain key statistics on virtually every parish and settlement in England and Wales. With information on named individuals, along with families and households, this resource forms a central core of data for local, community-based studies for the Victorian period. Topics such as the enumeration process, employment and occupations, migration and population turnover, and residential patterns are all introduced with explanations on the census enumerators' relation to the themes at hand.

Dennis Mills is the former staff tutor in social sciences at the Open University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Land and Property: The English Land Tax 1692–1832. Kevin Schurer is the director of the Economic and Social Data Service and of the United Kingdom Data Archive, both run by the University of Essex. He is the coauthor of Changing Family Size in England and Wales.