The Census

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Here in the UK, it's census time! Today, I'm joined on the podcast by one of the nations favourite family historians Dr Michala Hulme who certainly knows her way around a historical census. The first census was back in 1801 so we now have over 200 years of census information. We discuss why the census was first created, how the census can give us a real insight into how people lived their lives and how the census has changed and evolved over time. Please fill out your census as it provides vital information not just for the government, but most importantly for future historians to understand what was going on.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History at its Census Time here in the UK.
0:04.8	I think it's Census Time in the US as well.
0:07.4	That's good.
0:08.4	We need to keep a note of what's going on in these countries.
0:11.0	And I've got Dr. Michaela Hume, she's a lecturer in public history at Manchester Metropolitan
0:15.2	University, and she is one of the nation's favorites family historians.
0:19.8	You've seen her on the BBC, various other TV shows and all sorts of places.
0:23.8	She knows her way around historical censuses.
0:27.0	Better than anybody.
0:29.2	Other censuses back in 1801, we've now got well over 200 years of these snapshots of our
0:33.3	national life.
0:34.6	They're fantastic things, going for your censors out everybody, vital information in there,
0:39.2	of course, for government providing services to all of us and for our ability to vote.
0:43.2	But most importantly of all, to future historians who want to look back, have a nose around
0:47.2	our lives and work out what was going on.
0:49.0	The first sentence was during the great series of wars against France at the end of the
0:53.3	18th, early 19th centuries.
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0:58.7	It's like Netflix for history.
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