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Historical reflections

Victorian Data Processing


London Clearing House, circa 1830

London bankers' clerks meet at the Clearing House in Post Office Court, Lombard Street, to exchange cheques and settle accounts, circa 1830.

Credit: Hulton Archive / Getty Images

The Victorian world was awash with data and with organizations that processed it; and they usually used nothing more technologically advanced than pen and paper.

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