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St. Albans and its region
In: Population, economy and family structure in Hertfordshire in 1851 Vol. 2
Editorial
In: Local population studies, Issue 91, p. 1-3
ISSN: 2515-7760
Accommodating the elderly poor: almshouses and the mixed economy of welfare in England in the second millennium
In: Scandinavian economic history review, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 35-57
ISSN: 1750-2837
Editorial
In: Local population studies, Issue 90, p. 1-3
ISSN: 2515-7760
Editorial
In: Local population studies, Issue 89, p. 1-2
ISSN: 2515-7760
Editorial
In: Local population studies, Issue 88, p. 1-3
ISSN: 2515-7760
Editorial
In: Local population studies, Issue 87, p. 1-3
ISSN: 2515-7760
Editorial
In: Local population studies, Issue 86, p. 1-3
ISSN: 2515-7760
Victoria county history: a history of the county of Northampton – Edited by Charles Insley, John Beckett, Alan Thacker, Cynthia Brown, Peter Mountfield, and Elizabeth Williamson Victoria county history: a history of the county of Stafford – Edited by Nigel J. Tringham
In: The economic history review, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 222-224
ISSN: 1468-0289
The middle sort of people in provincial England, 1600–1750 – By Henry R. French
In: The economic history review, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 212-214
ISSN: 1468-0289
Child workers in England, 1780–1820: parish apprentices and the making of the early industrial labour force – By Katrina Honeyman
In: The economic history review, Volume 62, Issue 1, p. 221-222
ISSN: 1468-0289
Cottage industry, migration, and marriage in nineteenth‐century England
In: The economic history review, Volume 61, Issue 4, p. 798-819
ISSN: 1468-0289
There has been considerable debate concerning the impact of the industrial employment of women upon their demographic behaviour in nineteenth‐century England. This article assesses the impact of employment in the cottage industry of straw plait and hat making in the county of Hertfordshire, comparing and contrasting districts where the industry was prominent with those where it was not. It is discovered that in 1851 the availability of straw industry employment encouraged earlier marriage, most notably in those parishes where the industry was particularly heavily concentrated, although overall levels of nuptiality and proportions ultimately marrying were similar in straw and non‐straw areas alike. By 1871, however, the skewed sex ratio that such employment produced among young adults served to offset this positive effect. As the industry waned in the later nineteenth century, the experience of different regions of the county converged, while throughout the period the data suggest that urban/rural contrasts and the suburbanization of London produced more stark contrasts in female marriage patterns than did the availability of cottage industry employment.
Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams, Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700–1920. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.) Pages xv+249. £50.00
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 552-554
ISSN: 1469-218X
Victoria county history: a history of the county of Chester, vol. V, 2, The city of Chester: culture, buildings and institutions – Edited by Christopher P. Lewis and Alan T. Thacker Victoria county history: a history of the county of Durham, vol. IV, Darlington – Edited by Gillian Cookson Victoria...
In: The economic history review, Volume 60, Issue 4, p. 830-832
ISSN: 1468-0289