The Population of Victorian and Edwardian Norfolk. (Reviews of Books).

Alan Armstrong. The Population of Victorian and Edwardian Norfolk. Norwich: Centre of East Anglian Studies. 2000. Pp. 142. [pounds sterling]7.95. ISBN 0-906219-50-7.

This book summarises the demographic history of Norfolk in the hundred years before the First World War, setting the experience of Norfolk in the context of England and Wales as a whole. Population growth was relatively low (the Norfolk growth rate ranked tenth among forty-one English counties). This was primarily a consequence of migration. There was net movement out of the rural areas in all decades. London was the ...

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