Peter Jolly
Peter Jolly
This article explores the potential reasons for and extent of bigamy in London in the early nineteenth century. The nature of the criminal offence is considered, examining the evidence required to secure a conviction, and the penalties impo...
Romola Davenport
Romola Davenport
Family reconstitutions have been undertaken only rarely in urban settings due to the high mobility of historical urban populations, in both life and death. Recently Gill Newton has outlined a methodology for the reconstitution of urban popu...
Margaret Bolton
Margaret Bolton
On 2 July 1637 43-year-old Elizabeth Burgess, from Canterbury, was buried at Birchington, Kent, having died of the plague in the hamlet of Wood in that parish. She was the first victim of an outbreak of plague in 1637. This article firstly ...
Romola Davenport
Romola Davenport
Family reconstitutions have been undertaken only rarely in urban settings due to the high mobility of historical urban populations, in both life and death. Recently Gill Newton has outlined a methodology for the reconstitution of urban popu...
Samantha A Shave
Samantha A Shave
This research note describes an under-used collection of papers which document interwar income, nutrition and health in Britain which were created in the administration of the Carnegie Dietary Survey by John Boyd-Orr in the Rowett Institute...
Brian Parker
Brian Parker
The double logarithmic straight-line representation of marriage horizon data is a useful tool for their comparison. Current practice is to exclude intra-parochial couples from the calculations. This note argues that these couples should be ...
Why was Infant Mortality so High in Eastern England in the mid Nineteenth Century? [0.03%]
十九世纪中叶英格兰东部婴儿死亡率为何居高不下？
Andrew Hinde,Victoria Fairhurst
Andrew Hinde
This paper re-examines the high rates of infant mortality observed in rural areas of eastern England in the early years of civil registration. Infant mortality rates in some rural registration districts in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Camb...
Few Deaths before Baptism: Clerical Policy, Private Baptism and the Registration of Births in Georgian Westminster: a Paradox Resolved [0.03%]
论教士政策、私人生育登记与乔治王时代的威斯敏斯特市出生人口普查数据中的洗礼现象：一种悖论的解决
Jeremy Boulton,Romola Davenport
Jeremy Boulton
The evident lengthening of the interval between birth and baptism over the eighteenth century has often been assumed to have increased the risk that young infants died before baptism. Using burial records that include burials of unbaptised ...
Julia Allison
Julia Allison
This study examines the maternal mortality rate in six early modern rural parishes of East Anglia where a midwife was known to be practicing. Register entries from the six parishes are translated and transcribed and maternal outcomes establ...
Lyn Boothman,Mary Cook,Cohn Pooley et al.
Lyn Boothman et al.