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The Alice Coleman Legacy : The 1961 Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain

The Alice Coleman Legacy : The 1961 Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain - an inter-departmental rescue. Presented by Bruce Mitchell I first discovered the Dudley Stamp (1931) and Alice Coleman (1961) Land Utilisation Surveys in 2019. Both had potential to provide ONS with proxies for the distribution of population recorded by the 1931 and 1961 Censuses of England and Wales. Coleman’s survey (like Stamp’s) was chronically under-funded: what was achieved came about through extraordinary efforts by a host of volunteers, at the heart of which sat Alice Coleman herself, firing off academic papers, grant applications, and thousands of letters to supporters, critics and surveyors alike. The published maps that she hoped would pay for themselves proved prohibitively expensive: fewer than 120 of a planned 843 were ever printed. By the 1980s, Coleman was redirecting her energies elsewhere. Having substantially funded the Second Land Utilisation Survey herself, she considered its material to be her own personal property and, on retirement from King’s College London in 1997, took about ten tons of material home to set up a study centre. I was too late on the scene to benefit from this: Covid then prevented a proposed meeting. After Coleman’s passing in 2023 (age 99), her family kindly invited me to explore her legacy and were keen for it to be made publicly available. On my recommendation, the then National Statistician authorised the legacy’s transfer to ONS. We soon formed a consortium with DEFRA, UKCEH, GenusIT, and National Library of Scotland to digitise the material. This work has now been completed, and publication is imminent. Speaker’s Bio: Geospatial Analyst and Cartography Supervisor, Office for National Statistics I am part of the Geospatial Branch in ONS’ Data Architecture Division. My principal role is GIS lead on the Historical Census Digitisation Project (HCDP) – working towards a means of presenting data from the censuses of England and Wales 1921-1991 to the public. This principally involves sourcing of materials, creation of high-resolution boundaries, generating residential environment proxies (which brought me into contact with Alice Coleman’s Second Land Utilisation Survey), definition of methods, collaborating with ONS Census and a range of prominent academics, and feature extraction from raster maps. Recently, securing, inventorying, managing the onward destinations and publication of the late Prof. the Alice Coleman’s legacy have dominated.