Description & Citation--Study No. 8422

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

08422

Kent's Directories of Businesses in London, 1759-1828

Tilly, Charles

Tilly, Charles. KENT'S DIRECTORIES OF BUSINESSES IN LONDON, 1759-1828. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Research on Social Organization [producer], 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08422.v1

Scope of Study

Published annually from 1732 until 1828, Kent's Directories provide the names, descriptions, and addresses of businesses in London. This collection is a transcription of the directories beginning with the 1759 edition. In addition to the name, type of business, and street address for each entry, the datasets contain the year of the listing, a "mobility code" indicating presence in the previous year's directory, and a set of geographical grid coordinates accurate to 100 meters. The directories are presented in three data files.

businesses, retail industry

England, Great Britain, London, Global

• 1759--1828

• 1980-06--1983-06

Businesses included in Kent's Directories from 1759-1828.

administrative records data

Methodology

Kent's Directories, 1759-1828

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1985-12-20

• 2006-01-18 File CB8422.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

• DS1: Alphabetical Listing of Street Addresses
• DS2: Alphabetical Listing of Businesses by Their Description
• DS3: Full Transcription of Kent's Publications