The lives of every man, woman and child living in England and Wales in 1921 have been revealed like never before, with detailed census returns from Windsor Castle and Chequers to cramped family homes made available to the public for the first time. The records, released after 100 years locked in the vaults, offer an unprecedented snapshot of life across the two nations, capturing the personal details of 38 million people on June 19 1921. The census features a number of famous names and their fam

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Find out by adding your postcode or visit InYourAreaBritain's population rose by just 4.9 percent in the decade before the 1921 Census, as war and disease took their toll. Before then, it had risen by double-digit percentages at every count since the records began in 1801.... He used his ink sketch to predict that the world would go to war in 1936....

The yellowed, handwritten pages of the 1921 census bring to life the private worlds of some of the 20th century’s most famous people – as well as one whose fleeting time in the limelight was much more recent. The century-old document contains mention of a certain Thomas Moore, better known now as “ Captain Tom ”, who would go on to become one of the totems of the nation’s stoicism during the coronavirus pandemic by raising more than ￡30 million for the NHS through walking lengths of his garden.