BBCNEWS Breakfast January 6, 2022 06:26:00
A hundred years after it was first collected, the 1921 census of england and wales opens up to the public for the first time today. it paints a picture of the lives of more than 38 million people in the years after the first world war including where they lived, where they worked and where they were born. sanchia berg reports. 100 years ago, women outnumbered men by almost 2 million in england and wales. so many young men had died in the first world war, many were unlikely to find husbands. the census forms, now made public, show a lot of these so—called surplus women went to work instead. c...