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Title: Census 2021 '8 things you need to know about the Census' from the BBC
Post by: goldie61 on Wednesday 10 March 21 02:47 GMT (UK)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51474049
This is a lighthearted look at interesting 'factoids' about the Census since 1801.
It's entitled 'Census 2021', but it's not about this one.

I particularly liked the photos of ranks of women collating data from the 1931 Census forms - only to have the whole thing destroyed later.  :(

Title: Re: '8 things you need to know about the Census' from the BBC
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 10 March 21 15:28 GMT (UK)

Interesting!...thanks for sharing. I researched the Suffragette movement three years ago and created a display and I learned that many of them stayed out all night to avoid being included in the census in protest against women not having the right to vote!

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/suffragettes-on-file/census-boycott/

Carol