The British Library gets and keeps these. More details are in their pamphlet: http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/offpubs/electreg/electoralregisters.pdf
By the way, Richard Webber is an academic who is probably the UK's leading expert on name analysis (and he in effect invented the Mosaic classification scheme too), so he may be worth contacting: http://www.neighbourhoodcentre.org.uk/members/webber.html <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/offpubs/electreg/electoralregisters.pdf>Hope that helps, Mark On 11 January 2011 09:04, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where I might be able to obtain a full, but old, > copy of the electoral roll? > > The purpose of this is to do a statistical analysis of the geographical > distribution of surnames in the UK, as compared with that shown by the 1881 > census, so I do need the full version (not the edited version), but it > doesn't have to be current - an old database from before 2002 (when the > edited register was introduced) would be perfect. > > (I am aware that this is personal data and would need to be held and > processed by an organisation registered under the DPA. Compliance with the > law isn't an issue, it's getting hold of the data in an analysable format > which is the problem). > > Mark > -- > http://mark.goodge.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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