0008412197 
Hardback The official history of Britain : our story in numbers as told by the Office for National Statistics / Boris Starling with David Bradbury.
Publication year: 2020
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London : HarperCollinsPublishers,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780008412197 (hbk.) :
Notes:
"Office for National Statistics Census 2021."
A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation. `Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation.In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britain, along with 9 artificial eye makers, 20 peg makers, 6 stamp makers and 1 bee dealer. Fast forward nearly two centuries and there are 51,000 midwives working in the UK and not an eye maker in sight!For the past two centuries, through the Census and national surveys, the Office for National Statistics and its predecessors have charted the lives of the British: our jobs, home lives and strange cultural habits. With questions on occupation, housing, religion, travel and family, the Census findings have informed the economy, politics, and every other national matter. Its collected data forms the
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298 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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