The all seeing eye of social research
by Charlie Tims
The Universities of Portsmounth, Leeds and Belfast have produced a research tool that threatens to create mass-redundancies amongst the interns of Britain.The "Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System" is a veritable honey pot of postcode-searchable information on population, industry, work and poverty, live and death blah blah blah tracked from the 19th century till the last census in 2001. For example, here is everything you could want to know about Southwark.