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Historical British telephone directories have recently availed themselves as disaggregate sourcesof population data for time periods not covered by other popular sources. Having devised acomprehensive processing pipeline to prepare these data for further analyses, this paper exploreswhat they could uncover about British historical demography. For one, the differential uptake oftelephones across space and time, owing to changes to its affordability and applications, reflectssocioeconomic disparities. Being a data source that spans decades, it also lends its application tothe study of intergenerational inequalities through the unit of family groups, as indicated bysurnames that subscribers bear. |
