The JISC has funded AHDS History for a three year project to create a web-based user interface for browsing, searching, viewing and downloading almost 200,000 images of historical population reports.

The project will include the digitisation of almost 600 volumes of census reports, reports of the various Registrar-General's and other associated statistical material emanating from both the English and Scottish General Registrar Offices and their predecessors. The overwhelming body of material will be from the period 1801-1931 though there will be some exceptions. All textual material will be searchable, and many tables will be available in machine-readable format.

A fully-operational demonstrator for this project will be up and running by late 2004.

IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS SITE WILL ONLY CONTAIN THE CENSUS REPORTS. IT WILL NOT CONTAIN ANY INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUALS.