‘No savings, no pension’: Ten census ‘time capsules’ that people have made public

Some decried the Government’s record, others wrote poems, one quoted JRR Tolkien


They filled in the “time capsule” section of the census form (the bit that is supposed to stay under wraps for 100 years), then posted them to social media.

Those who made their forms public took a variety of approaches. Political anger and party-political messaging was common, but there were also several poems and family histories, notes from children ... and at least one from the family dog.

A carer’s lot
A carer’s lot
A family history
A family history
Impressive rhyming
Impressive rhyming
Political anger
Political anger
Love never dies
Love never dies
More  politics
More politics
A gamer’s world
A gamer’s world
A cyclist’s view
A cyclist’s view
From The  Lord of the Rings
From The Lord of the Rings