Open licence and Common Contract, relating to the use of the Electoral Register data on the Here in the Past website:

The electoral data in our website was supplied by the British Library through their commercial partner Find My Past. They provided images of the pages of the electoral registers for the Brighton area between 1855 and 1931.

The project team at The Regency Town House extracted text from these images using OCR software. The text contained large numbers of errors and inconsistencies which were then corrected and sorted in to a rational data set that could be imported into the website database.

The website database can be searched and sorted on the Population data search page.

The corrected data can also be downloaded as Excel files on the Population data download page accessible. You may also find additional files here that have not yet been upload to the database.

Great care and attention has been paid to correcting the data. If you do find any mistakes, please email your comments to: office@rth.org.uk.

The data on this website is free to use for non-commercial purposes.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.