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Material has been gathered since the late 1970s. </p> <p> The largest part of GBHDB is statistical, and the data are organised more conventionally than in Vision of Britain, in thousands of columns within hundreds of tables. One consequence is that the actual contents of GBHDB are not accessible via this web site. Academic researchers can use "Great Britain Historical Database" to search for and <a href="https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/">download</a> copies of most of the tables in GBHDB via the <a href="http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/">UK Data Service</a>. GBHDB is organised into these parts: </p> <hr /> <div class="cols6"> <a href="/gbhdb/part/census"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"> <img src="../images/jumplinks/censusreports.jpg" alt="censusreports.jpg" width="81" height="81" border="0" /> </div></a> <a href="/gbhdb/part/census">Information from the Census of Population since 1801</a> </div> <div class="cols6"> <a href="/gbhdb/part/econ"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"> <img src="../images/jumplinks/T_WK.jpg" alt="T_WK.jpg" width="81" height="81" border="0" /> </div></a> <a href="/gbhdb/part/econ">Information about Economic Distress and Labour Markets</a> </div> <div class="cols6"> <a href="/gbhdb/part/health"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"> <img src="../images/jumplinks/T_VITAL.jpg" alt="T_VITAL.jpg" width="81" height="81" border="0" /> </div></a> <a href="/gbhdb/part/health">Information about Health and Health Care</a> </div> <div class="cols6"> <a href="/gbhdb/part/other"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"> <img src="../images/jumplinks/T_LAND.jpg" alt="T_LAND.jpg" width="81" height="81" border="0" /> </div></a> <a href="/gbhdb/part/other">Other Information, including pre-1800 Surveys</a> </div> <div class="cols6"> <a href="/gbhdb/part/meta"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"> <img src="../images/jumplinks/historicalmaps.jpg" alt="historicalmaps.jpg" width="81" height="81" border="0" /> </div></a> <a href="/gbhdb/part/meta">Supporting information, including changing geographies</a> </div> <div class="cols6"> <a href="/gbhdb/part/geos_gb"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"> <img src="../images/jumplinks/boundary_map.jpg" alt="boundary_map.jpg" width="81" height="81" border="0" /> </div></a> <a href="/gbhdb/part/geos_gb">Digital boundary data</a> </div> <br class="clear" /> </div> </div> <div id="footerAds" class="row"> <div class="rowInner"> <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1952517583355649" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <!-- 728x90, created 26/06/09 --> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1952517583355649" data-ad-slot="0896119656"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="row"> <div class="rowInner"> <a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk" id="footerLinkJ">JISC</a> <a href="https://www.port.ac.uk" id="footerLinkP">Portsmouth</a> <a href="#header" class="backToTop">Back to top</a> <ul> <li><a href="/about/credits">©2009-2024 University of Portsmouth and others</a></li> <li><a href="/about">About this site</a></li> <li><a href="/expertsearch">Expert search</a></li> <li><a href="https://headscape.co.uk">Web design by Headscape </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>