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SSRC Data Bank created
Allen Potter, Director
Floppy disc invented at IBM
Sexual Offences Act legalises homosexuality
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Students revolt at Essex University
Intel founded
First release of SPSS
Grosvenor Square demonstration, 200 arrested
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Fire on campus destroys wooden building housing administration and clerical records of the Data Bank
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Formation of Office of Population Censuses and Surveys from General Register Office and Government Social Survey Department
General Household Survey started
Development of UNIX started
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UK Census
First email program
First release of SAS
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SSRC Data Bank becomes Survey Archive
Ken Macdonald, Director
Second catalogue released
Unemployment reaches 1 million
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Labour Force Survey starts
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Ivor Crewe, Director
Ceefax teletext introduced
Two general elections in UK
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450 studies in collection
Affiliated with Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
First edition of the Survey Archive Bulletin
Sex Discrimination Act/Equal Pay Act
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Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) established
Race Relations Act
Apple Computer founded
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Family Expenditure Study workshops
Summer school in Survey Design and Analysis
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Day seminar: Measuring the Quality of Life
Archive Representatives Conference: Local Data Facilities
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1,400 studies in collection
First spreadsheet for personal computers - VIsiCalc
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Unemployment reaches 2 million
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Introduction of MS DOS 1.0
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Survey Archive becomes SSRC Data Archive
2,000 studies in collection
Unemployment reaches 3 million
Falklands War
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Howard Newby, Director
Introduction of CD
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SSRC Data Archive becomes ESRC Data Archive
Launched service for exchange of material on floppy disks
One pound note withdrawn
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 The Domesday Project
Visit by Her Majesty the Queen
First release of Microsoft Windows
Sinclair C5 launched
Ozone layer discovered
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Purchased optical disc drives and a Micro Vax II computer
'The Independent' newspaper launched
Two volume Catalogue of Holdings available in hardcover at £65, suitable for
libraries or institutions, and in paperback at approximately £25
Bulletin distributed to over 3,500 individuals
HASSET developed
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First annual CESSDA Expert Seminar
Bridget Winstanley and Marcia Taylor won British Library Research and Develeopment award
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Archive's 21st celebrations: seminar on 'Information Needs in the Social Sciences to the year 2000'
Tree planting
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Catherine Hakim, Director
WWW prototype built at CERN
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Paper copy of the ESRC Data Archive Catalogue cost £40
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Denise Lievesley, Director
ESRC Data Archive's first Compact Disc
Linux kernel born
Omnibus Survey
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Introduction of Windows 3.1
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3,000 studies in collection
BIRON available for external users
PDF 1.0 released
History Data Unit formed at ESRC Data Archive
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UKDA becomes web-based resource
Netscape Navigator replaces Mosaic
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HASSET available via web
Pentium Pro released
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ESRC Data Archive becomes The Data Archive
Digitisation project
NESSTAR project begins
Hotmail launched
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Five staff presented papers at IASSIST conference in Denmark
AMASS V4.5.8 hierarchical file management system acquired
Extension of offices and new telephone system
ESRC re-structured
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Launch of Great Britain Historical Database Online
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Users able to browse, perform simple analysis and download certain selected data directly from the web site
Minimum Wage introduced
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Kevin Schürer, Director
The Data Archive becomes UK Data Archive
Introduction of 'shopping-basket' ordering facility 
LIMBER, FASTER, Geo-projects MetaNet, CHCC
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Download service begins
Census Registration Service
First issue of UK Databytes
First launch of Nesstar for users
COSMOS, AMRADS
iPod released
UK Census: 0.7 per cent of population recorded as Jedi!
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MADIERA, Go-Geo, GeoXwalk, MetaDater
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Start of Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
JISC X4L
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ESDS one-stop registration service
DARP, OAIS/METS, VPS, OHPR
Mozilla Firefox released
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UKDA designated Place of Deposit for public records
Report on OAIS/METS standards
SAFARI UKDA, SQUAD, QUADS, SToRE
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RELU, DExT, Census Portal
Data Catalogue
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Almost 6,000 studies in collection
4S
SPSS 15
Move to new building
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