Release of Religious Census of the United Kingdom

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

Articles

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