Sum of Us

From Domesday Book to modern census debates, Commons Library statistician Sturge explores how Britain has kept track of itself. Insightful and engaging, this is a smart, often surprising history of data, identity and the stories numbers can tell * The i *Remarkable. A history of data-gathering that is also a masterpiece of storytelling. Georgina Sturge has illuminated Britain’s social history with a searching beam of good sense, always sensitive to the poetry of actual fact * Robert Winder *This book covers a formidable scope, does an excellent job of drawing human narratives from the numbers, and encourages a critical approach, highlighting how statistics can either illuminate or cloud our judgement, depending on how they are used * Dr Sophie Kay *A fascinating and often moving journey through British data-gathering from Domesday Book right up to modern day debates about ethics * Significance *

Georgina Sturge is a Statistician at the House of Commons Library. Prior to working at Parliament, she trained in quantitative public policy analysis at the United Nations University and Maastricht University Graduate School of Governance. She has worked in global development, international migration, social security, poverty and inequality. She is a member of the Office for National Statistics’ expert advisory group on population and migration statistics and an advisor to the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory. Her first book was Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of us Get Misled by Numbers.

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