Abstract
In the Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom for 1871–1885, most of the 200 pages provide great detail on trade in agricultural products, including from the colonies, and the public finances (HMSO, 1986). There are just twelve pages on factories, mines and railways. So at the height of the Industrial Revolution official statistics provided scant information about the dynamic manufacturing economy. The reader can find monthly sales of corn in English and Welsh market towns, or the volume of guano and gutta percha imported into the United Kingdom, but rather little about factories other than their number, employment and – to be fair – the number of power looms and spindles installed.
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