ABSTRACT
By the early twentieth century, British society had become highly urbanised, some four-fifths of the population living in towns. In England and Wales in 1911 the urban proportion of the population was 78 per cent, and in Scotland it was 75 per cent. 1 (’Urban’ here is taken to indicate people living in urban administrative areas in England and Wales; in Scotland, it indicates people living in burghs and certain other districts having a population of over 1,000.)
