Abstract
This article discusses the setting up and operation of the Kingston Local History Project, emphasizing, in this process, the active co-operation between Kingston University and the local community. The Project aims to construct a comprehensive database on the people of Kingston between I850 and I900 and to subject the data collected to rigorous analysis. This will provide an extensive longitudinal socio-economic profile of an important market town in transition and, via techniques of record linkage, details of the life-cycles of thousands of Kingstonians. The core of the database is the decennial census enumerators’ books I85I-I89I, plus details from other sources, including parish registers and cemetery records. Data on female domestic service are then analysed to demonstrate how the database enables some important research questions to be tackled.
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