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Historical UK literacy rates

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Can anyone point me towards any historical data on how literacy rates in the UK have changed over, say, the past 100 years (or preferably even longer if numbers are available)?
  

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[/nq] Go to a library and consult: 1. 1b. UNESCO statistics.

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  • [/nq] Go to a library and consult: 1.
  • 1b.
  • UNESCO statistics.
  • 2.
  • The substantial scholarly literature.
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[nq:1]Can anyone point me towards any historical data on how literacy rates in the UK have changed over, say, the past 100 years (or preferably even longer if numbers are available)?[/nq]
Go to a library and consult:

1. National statistics.1b. UNESCO statistics.

2. The substantial scholarly literature. You couldbegin with Carlo M. Cipolla's Literacy and Development in the Wes
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[nq:1]Hi Can anyone point me towards any historical data on how literacy rates in the UK have changed over, say, the past 100 years[/nq]
They've gone up

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]Hi Can anyone point me towards any historical data on how literacy rates in the UK have changed over, say, the past 100 years[/nq]
[nq:1]They've gone up[/nq]
Shh! The Daily Mail might hear you!

Andrew Gwilliam
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