Introduction to accessing data

Who can access the data?

Most of the collection is available to any user free of charge for the purposes of not-for-profit research or teaching or personal educational development. A few studies are only available to higher and further education for teaching, learning and research purposes. In addition a few studies have been deposited with the History Data Service for preservation only and cannot be disseminated. If data is required for commercial uses then the the UK Data Archive's advice for commercial users should be consulted.

Ordering data via the Data Catalogue

Most of our studies can be ordered via the UK Data Archive's Data Catalogue. You will have to be registered with the UK Data Archive to place and order. Further information on how to register with the UK Data Archive and how to access data is given on the accessing data section of the UK Data Archive website.

Other data resources

The History Data Service also provides the following resources which are not accessed via the Data Catalogue.

Histpop the Online Historical Population Reports website which provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937

The Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data (CHCC) which provides access to UK higher and hurther education users to aggregate level demographic data from the Great Britain Historical Database and the Database of Welsh Historical Statistics and allows users to order subsets of a complete transcription of the 1881 census enumerators' books for England and Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.