Edward Higgs Books

Making Sense of the Census: The Manuscript Returns for England and Wales, 1801-1901 - Public Record Office Handbooks
A Clearer Sense of the Census: Victorian Censuses and Historical Research
The information state in England
The information state in England
Domestic servants and households in Rochdale, 1851-1871
Life Death and Statistics
Life Death and Statistics

By Edward Higgs

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The Information State in England
Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective
Identifying the English
Identifying the English

By Edward Higgs

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Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the...

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Making sense of the census revisited

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