Migration and mobility in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Between December 1993 and September 1995 a total of 1388 respondents [in Britain] provided useable information on 16091 individuals born between 1750 and 1930 who had undertaken a total of 73864 recorded residential moves during their lifetimes. These data have now been analysed and this article reports some of the key results of the project....The paper simply summarizes some of the key findings which challenge or refine existing knowledge on migration in the past. (EXCERPT)