History
Family and Industrialisation
An interesting classroom exercise that combines historical work on family / household life and research methods is to analyse Census data (which can be downloaded below) to see what it tells us about family structures in England in the mid 19th century.
The data is from one small area (Wrockwardine Wood) from one part of the country (Shropshire) and represents a very small - but manageable - data set for classroom use.
In addition, the use of such data gives students the opportunity to consider key methodological concepts such as data reliability, validity, representativeness and generalisation.
