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We no longer offer a download facility, except for the GB1900 Gazetteer. Browse "Statistics by topic" to learn how the data have been re-organised for access within Vision of Britain, and "GBHDB" for details of the original transcriptions.</p> <p>Once you have located <strong>statistical datasets</strong> of interest in GBHDB, you will usually be able to download them from the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk" target="_blank">UK Data Service</a> under an open copyright license. Our deposits with the UK Data Service are mostly based on the sections listed here within GBHDB, and you can find them in the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/find-data/" target="_blank">UKDS Catalogue</a> by searching for "GBHDB".</p> <p>To download digital copies of <strong>historical maps</strong>, we recommend the <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland online map collection</a>, and we are providing them with copies of map images they do not already hold.</p> <p>All our <strong>digital boundary data</strong> are being made available through the UK Data Service except for parish boundaries, again under open licenses but limiting commercial use. These boundary data include the same system of unit identifiers as are systematically included in our updated statistical deposits with the UK Data Service, simplifying statistical mapping.</p> <p>Commercial licensing of <strong>historical parish boundary data</strong> is our main source of continuing income, but these boundaries may be made available for non-commercial use by special request: email gbhgis[at]port.ac.uk to find out more.</p> <p>We continue to make the <strong>GB1900 gazetteer</strong> freely downloadable.</p> </body> </html> </div> </div> <div class="tab" id="tabgb1900"> <div class="cols16"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> .themes { margin-left: 50px; } .cols5_5 { padding: 0; margin-bottom: 18px; } .cols5_5 h3 { font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 3.5em; } .cols12 { margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 25px; margin-left: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <h4>GB1900 GAZETTEER</h4> <p> The GB1900 project computerised <strong>all</strong> the place names and other text on the Second Edition County Series six-inch-to-one-mile maps covering the whole of Great Britain, published by the Ordnance Survey between 1888 and 1914 -- 1900 for short. We are making the resulting data available for download in three formats: These are all large zip archives which may take some time to download. They each include documentation and a copy of the relevant Creative Commons licence. </p> <h4>FINAL RAW DUMP — CC0</h4> <p> This ZIP archive includes four tables holding all final raw data from the crowd-sourcing system except personal information about volunteers, plus detailed documentation. </p> <div> <h5><a href="../../downloads/GB1900_final_raw_dump_july_2018.zip" download="GB1900_raw_dump">DOWNLOAD GB1900 RAW DUMP</a></h5><br/> </div> <h4>COMPLETE GB1900 GAZETTEER — CC-BY-SA</h4> <p> This dataset of c. 2.55m rows is based on the raw data from the crowd-sourcing system, but includes just one agreed name for each location, which for about 1.5% of the transcriptions involved manual checking after the online project ended. Each entry also includes the location in OSGB and WGS84 coordinates, and the names of the nation, modern local authority and modern parish containing the location. </p> <div> <h5><a href="../../downloads/GB1900_gazetteer_complete_july_2018.zip" download="GB1900_gazetteer_complete">DOWNLOAD COMPLETE GB1900 GAZETTEER</a></h5><br/> </div> <h4>ABRIDGED GB1900 GAZETTEER — CC-BY-SA</h4> <p> The complete gazetteer includes very large numbers of repeating labels, such as "F.P." for footpath. This version is substantially reduced in size by removing the commonest such labels, but still contains many transcriptions which are not necessarily place-names. </p> <div> <h5><a href="../../downloads/GB1900_gazetteer_abridged_july_2018.zip" download="GB1900_gazetteer_abridged">DOWNLOAD ABRIDGED GB1900 GAZETTEER</a></h5><br/> </div> <h4>COPYRIGHT NOTICE</h4> <p> The Complete and Abridged GB1900 Gazetteers are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike Licence, which means that you may do anything you like with these data, including using them commercially, but you must acknowledge the Great Britain Historical GIS, the GB1900 partners and volunteers, and you may not imply that your work is in any sense endorsed by the GB1900 project or its partners. You must provide a link to the licence, indicating if changes were made. You can redistribute the data but only under the same licence and without additional restrictions. </p> <p> The GB1900 Raw Dump is made available under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Licence. This means that you may do anything you like with these data, including using them commercially, and are not required to acknowledge us. However, you may not give the name "GB1900 Gazetteer", or similar, to any resulting work: invent your own. Only unmodified versions of the gazetteer files may be distributed as the "GB1900 Gazetteer". </p> <h6>MORE ABOUT GB1900</h6> <p> The project ran from September 2016 to January 2018, and was a collaboration between the GB Historical GIS, the creators of <em>A Vision of Britain through Time</em>, the National Library of Scotland, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, the National Library of Wales and the People鈥檚 Collection Wales. We are deeply grateful to the more than a thousand online volunteers who did most of the hard work. </p> </body> </html> </div> </div> <div class="tab" id="tab04"> <div class="cols16"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> .themes { margin-left: 50px; } .cols5_5 { padding: 0; margin-bottom: 18px; } .cols5_5 h3 { font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 3.5em; } .cols12 { margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 25px; margin-left: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=N_OCC_RAW1841"> <img src="../images/sub/occ1841_sample.jpg" width="279" height="149" class="imgRight" alt="part of the 1841 occupational table" /></a> <p>The Vision of Britain system holds a large library of historical statistics. We store all the data values in one big list, and for each value we record:</p> <ul> <li><strong>WHERE</strong> the data value is for, by links to our <a href="../expertsearch#tab02">administrative gazetteer</a></li> <li><strong>WHEN</strong> the value is for, by a year or period</li> <li><strong>The SOURCE</strong>, linking to our listings of <a href="../census">Census Reports</a></li> </ul> <p>We record <strong>WHAT</strong> each number measures via our implementation of the Aggregate/Tabular Data Extension developed by the <a href="https://ddialliance.org" target="_blank">Data Documentation Initiative</a>. This places each data value within a <a href="dds_type_page.jsp?type=N">dataset</a>, or nCube, whose dimensions are defined by <a href="dds_type_page.jsp?type=V">variables</a> (sometimes organised into <a href="dds_type_page.jsp?type=VG">variable groups</a>), like <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=VG_OCC">occupation</a> and <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=V_SEX">gender</a> and <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=VG_AGE">age</a>, each of which is a set of <a href="dds_type_page.jsp?type=C">categories</a>, such as "<a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=C_SEX_1">Males</a>" and "<a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=C_SEX_2">Females</a>":</p> <hr/> <p>Enter a search term below to find relevant datasets from our statistical database:</p> <form name="nCubeSearchForm" id="nCubeSearchForm" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px" method="get" action="ncube_results_page.jsp"> <input style="display: inline;" type="text" class="field" id="searchField" name="word"/> <input style="display: inline;" type="submit" class="button" value="Search" alt="Search"/> </form> <hr/> <div class="cols12"> <p class="pEm" align="center" style="font-size: 13.5px">Themes are used in the Vision of Britain system to organise all our statistical data into a small number of broad categories, often identified by icons on the web site. Click on one of the Themes for more information:</p> </div> <div class="cols5_5" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_POP"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_POP.jpg" alt="Population" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_POP"><h3>Population</h3></a> </div> <div class="themes"> <div class="cols5_5""> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_IND"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_IND.jpg" alt="Industry" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_IND"><h3>Industry</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_SOC"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_SOC.jpg" alt="Social structure" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_SOC"><h3>Social Structure</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_LEARN"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_LEARN.jpg" alt="Language & learning" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_LEARN"><h3>Learning & Language</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_LAND"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_LAND.jpg" alt="Agriculture & Land Use" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_LAND"><h3>Agriculture & Land Use</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_VITAL"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_VITAL.jpg" alt="Births & deaths" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_VITAL"><h3>Life & Death</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_WK"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_WK.jpg" alt="Employment & poverty" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_WK"><h3>Work & Poverty</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_HOUS"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_HOUS.jpg" alt="Housing" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_HOUS"><h3>Housing</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_REL"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/T_REL.jpg" alt="Roots & religion" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_REL"><h3>Roots & Religion</h3></a> </div> <div class="cols5_5" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_POL"><div class="imgBorder imgLeft"><img src="../images/jumplinks/ballot.gif" alt="Politics" width="81" height="81" border="0" /></div></a> <a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_POL"><h3>Political Life</h3></a> </div> </div> <br class="clear" /> </body> </html> </div> </div> <div class="tab" id="tabgbhdb"> <div class="cols16"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> .themes { margin-left: 50px; } .cols5_5 { padding: 0; margin-bottom: 18px; } .cols5_5 h3 { font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 3.5em; } .cols12 { margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 25px; margin-left: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <h3><a href="../gbhdb">GB Historical Database</a></h3> <p>Most of the material in Vision of Britain has been imported from an older, larger and more traditional system called the <em>Great Britain Historical Database</em>. 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