The Great Britain Historical Database holds most of the ingredients from which Vision of Britain was constructed, and much more besides. Material has been gathered since the late 1970s.

The largest part of GBHDB is statistical, and the data are organised more conventionally than in Vision of Britain, in thousands of columns within hundreds of tables. One consequence is that the actual contents of GBHDB are not accessible via this web site. Academic researchers can download copies of most of the tables in GBHDB via AHDS History. GBHDB is organised into these parts:

Information from the Census of Population since 1801

Information about Economic Distress and Labour Markets

Information about Health and Health Care

Other Information, including pre-1800 Surveys

Supporting information, including changing geographies