UCL now has access to the Social History Archive : Records, Newspapers and the 1921 Census

UCL users now have access to Social History Archive : Records, Newspapers and the 1921 Census. Access is restricted to current UCL students and staff only.

This archive features a collection of British and Irish primary source material:

• Records: consisting of 3.5 billion transcribed records, 375 million digitised scans of original records in over 2,800 separate collections, these records cover a broad spectrum of the themes and topics of British history and its colonial expansion into Ireland, India and the wider world.
• Newspapers: the largest collection of historical British & Irish newspapers online and the official source for the British Library’s newspaper holdings. This collection features over 1,850 titles and over 47 million pages dating from 1700 to the 2000s. Access included the Bookseller archive.
• Census: the 1921 Census of England & Wales includes 38 million records covering every person in England and Wales on 19 June 1921. It’s searchable by over 35 fields including keyword, name, address and employer.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian