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History Data Service

hds.essex.ac.uk

The History Data Service (HDS) collects, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching. The HDS is a successor service to AHDS History which, from 1996 to March 2008, was one of the five centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

The HDS is housed within the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex. Services offered by the HDS include:

  • long-term preservation of deposited data collections
  • access to available collections through the UK Data Archive Data Catalogue
  • online guidance on creating and documenting digital resources from historical sources
  • a dedicated help desk and website
  • regularly updated web-based FAQs
  • JISCmail mailing list offering news on the latest History Data Service collections and other information useful to both creators and users of historical datasets
  • news bulletins and articles
  • online guides and resources on using data

Archive contribution

The HDS is run from the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.

Principal investigator:  Richard Deswarte
Funder:
Dates: April 2008
Contact:  HDS help desk
Links:  History Data Service

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 8: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 8: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 8: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
4 of 8: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
5 of 8: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
6 of 8: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
7 of 8: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
8 of 8: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys

OUR SERVICES  

ESDS 
providing access to key economic and social data
RELU-DSS 
supporting rural research data management
Census.ac.uk 
providing a gateway to 1971- 2001 UK censuses
HDS 
enabling access to a range of historical resources
SDS 
enabling safe and secure remote access to data
SQB 
providing access to key survey questionnaires
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