The United Kingdom released its religious census. The returns revealed that four out of five worshipers in Wales attended Nonconformist places of worship rather than Anglican Churches.

Image: Cover of the original census report. This image is part of the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Courtesy of Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=VRQSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=united+kingdom+census+1851&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiovZuGu9riAhVEcq0KHe5-AfAQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Matthew Jones, “On Nineteenth-Century Welsh Literacies, and the ‘Blue Book’ Education Reports of 1847”