Select one of the following tasks:

Task 1: Who am I?
This is a great task for newcomers to the database. Practice your search skills by identifying a Coalbrookdale inhabitant from a series of clues that they give you.
Estimated to take 30 minutes. Printable worksheet available here.

Task 2: The Vital Statistics!
Test your searching skills and learn about life in Coalbrookdale by answering a series of structured questions about the occupations, living conditions and background of the Coalbrookdale population.
Estimated to take 30 minutes. Printable worksheet available here.

Task 3: True or False?
Use the database to check the accuracy of a series of first-person accounts about life in Coalbrookdale. In so doing, you will consider the limitations of the census and question whether historians are right to use their imagination to fill the gaps in the evidence.
Estimated to take 30 minutes. Printable worksheet available here.