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Summary tables for Births, Deaths and Marriages in England and Wales from Annual report of the Registrar General

  • UKLSE-DL1GR01
  • Collection
  • 1839-1842

The data presented consists of 3 tables in csv format which show the numbers of births, marriages and deaths in English and Welsh regions for the years stated. These were extracted from image files of digitised printed material in LSE Library. The aim was to make that data more easily processed by the end-user in spreadsheet format.

The initial digitisation was the result of a project at LSE Library. The resulting corpus of materials consists of lengthy runs (some complete) of a series of publications including The Labour Gazette, The Annual Report of the Registrar General and the Census of Production. The Library, in conjunction with LSE’s Department of Economic History, began the digitisation project in 2018. This has made a substantial collection of materials available which can be used by members of the faculty (and beyond) for research and teaching purposes.

A second phase of the project attempted to extract tables from image files from the early years of the Annual Reports of the Registrar General. The aim was to convert the large amounts of valuable data across the publications into an open format so that it could be re-used, repurposed and analysed more easily in statistical analysis software. While the extraction proved considerably challenging, the extracted tables are relatively excellent reproductions and have been well rendered as csv files.

Note: Care has been taken to ensure the fidelity of the content of the tables but we cannot guarantee that the automated processes we have used have always captured this correctly. Some data cleansing may therefore be needed to be carried out as a result. The materials can be double checked against the originals which are available online at Annual report of the Registrar General of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales.

South African Governmental Publications

  • UKLSE-DL1SA01
  • Collection
  • 1866-1986

A collection of official and administrative publications produced by successive South African governments between 1866 and 1986, including a series of censuses (1866 – 1968) and a series of reports on education (1882 – 1986). These publications provide statistics and time-series data on a range of topics, including demographics, education, employment, housing, industry, marital conditions and public health, as well as insight into the policies of successive South African governments before and after independence from British rule.

Beatrice Webb's Diaries

  • uklse-dl1wd01
  • Collection
  • 1873-1943

The diaries of Beatrice Webb (1858 – 1943), including the original manuscript volumes and typescript copies with associated ephemera. Webb kept a diary from 1873 until her death in 1943, providing a detailed account of her life and work. Topics covered include the Fabian Society, the Labour Party, trade unionism, the suffrage movement, LSE, local government and communism, as well as details of Webb’s personal life, her marriage to Sidney Webb and descriptions of friends and acquaintances.

Street Life in London

  • UKLSE_DL1SL01
  • Collection
  • 1877

‘Street Life in London’ (1877) is a book consisting of a series of articles by radical journalist Adolphe Smith and photographer John Thomson. The book vividly documents the lives of working-class Londoners living on the margins of society, combining Thomson’s photographs with detailed written passages based on interviews. The authors felt at the time that the images lent authenticity to the text, and their book is now regarded as a key work in the history of documentary photography. This collection includes the book itself, as well as a separate series containing only the photographs.

Fabian Society and Young Fabians

  • UKLSE-DL1FS01
  • Collection
  • 1884-2009

A collection of papers and publications produced by the Fabian Society between 1884 and 2009, including the Fabian Tracts, the Young Fabian pamphlets series and meeting minutes. These materials provide a record of the Society’s internal administration, as well as illustrating their political and ideological evolution over time. Founded in 1884, the Fabian Society is a prominent left-wing think tank which has had (and continues to have) a significant influence on the British left, most notably the Labour Party. The Society was founded with the purpose to "reconstruct society in such a manner as to secure the general welfare and happiness".

Economic History Digital Collection

  • UKLSE-DL1EH01
  • Collection
  • 1884 - 2002

Official publications selected from LSE Library’s key collections of UK government and economic statistics, dating from 1884 to 2002. They contain time-series data on a range of topics, including demographics, economics, public health and housing.

Charles Booth Digitised Archive

  • UKLSE-DL1CB01
  • Collection
  • 1886-1903

The poverty maps, papers and notebooks of Charles Booth’s inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People in London (1886 – 1903), an investigation into the distribution of wealth and poverty in late-Victorian London. The most famous items in this collection are the maps, known for their street-by-street colour-coded display of wealth distribution throughout the city at the time. This collection includes both the printed and hand-coloured maps produced by the inquiry. Further topics addressed in Booth's papers and notebooks include industry and religion.

Poster Collections

  • UKLSE-DL1PO01
  • Collection
  • 1892 - 1930s

A collection of posters drawn from four different collections held at LSE archives. The ‘Political and Tariff Reform Posters’ series includes a selection of political posters produced by various British political parties and the Tariff Reform League from 1892 – 1910. The ‘London County Council Election 1907’ series includes a selection of campaigning posters and papers produced for that election. The ‘British Labour Delegation to Russia’ series includes propaganda posters, papers, gazettes and newspaper articles collected by the Delegation during their visit to Soviet Russia in 1920. The ‘Russia Childcare Posters’ series includes posters produced by the Soviet Ministry of Health (Ministerstvo zdravookhraneniya) from 1930 – 1931, instructing parents on how to take care of their children’s health.

Peace and Internationalism Digitised Collection

  • UKLSE-DL1PI01
  • Collection
  • 1900-1961

A curated collection that focuses on the topics of pacifism and global peace, particularly during the interwar period (1919-1939). The collection draws upon selected archives and material from the League of Nations Union (LNU), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, including posters, photographs, papers, pamphlets, meeting minutes, annual reports, journals and ephemera. These materials detail the activities and ideas of those organisations and their efforts to work towards world peace.

Hugh Dalton's Diaries

  • UKLSE-DL1HD01
  • Collection
  • 1916-1978

The manuscript diaries of Labour politician Hugh Dalton (1887 – 1962), including a report on the diaries from The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1978). The diaries provide an account of Dalton’s life and work from 1916 to 1960, notably documenting his military service during the First World War and his service in government during the Second World War. Wider topics covered in his diaries include political issues, Labour Party issues, economic reform, trade, foreign policy and economic production.

EU Referendum leaflets

  • Collection
  • 1975-2016

A collection of campaigning leaflets from the 1975 and 2016 referendums on the UK’s membership of the European Common Market and European Union respectively. The leaflets were produced by various individuals, political parties and organisations active during both campaigns. Together, they evidence the arguments that were presented to the public by campaigners and provide insight into public perception of the referendums at the time.

Oxford Research Group

  • UKLSE-AS1OX01
  • Collection
  • 2001-2020

This collection contains born-digital records created by ORG, mainly research outputs produced as part of the Sustainable Security, Strategic Peacebuilding, and Remote Warfare programmes, as well as ORG newsletters and blog articles from external contributors. Also included are podcasts and recordings of panel discussions. The majority of this material was downloaded from the ORG website and transferred to LSE Library when the organisation was wound down. The collection also includes some annual accounts and impact reports (a fuller set of annual reports is available in the ORG analogue collection).

Oxford Research Group (ORG)

Election Ephemera Collection

  • UKLSE-AS1EL01
  • Collection
  • 2016-2021

This collection includes born-digital ephemera and other material collected by the LSE Library which relates to elections in the United Kingdom.
The first two series consist of candidate manifestos for the main political parties as well as minor and independent parties, and voter guides from the London Mayor Elections in 2016 and 2021.

Political parties represented inlude:
Conservative Party
Green Party of England and Wales
British National Party (BNP)
Labour Party
Liberal Democrats
Women's Equality Party (WEP)
UK Independence Party (UKIP)

George Lansbury Archives

  • UKLSE-DL1GL01
  • Collection

The papers of George Lansbury MP (1859 – 1940), which include photographs and caricatures of Lansbury, press reviews of Lansbury’s published work, articles, pamphlets, speeches, leaflets, election addresses and personal ephemera. Topics covered in these papers include schools, the Labour Party, unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet Crisis and the Metropolitan Police.