Peter Razzell
Peter Razzell
A review of evidence on infant mortality derived from the London bills of mortality and parish registers indicates that there were major registration problems throughout the whole of the parish register period. One way of addressing these p...
Christine Jones
Christine Jones
Disability history is a comparatively new field of study, and to date little use has been made of the British census as a source because of its perceived difficulties. This article shows that it is possible to study a local, disabled popula...
Family size and expectations about housing in the later nineteenth century: three Yorkshire towns [0.03%]
十九世纪后期的家庭规模与住房期望：约克郡三镇之比较
Paul Atkinson
Paul Atkinson
This article illustrates how cultural history can deepen the understanding of demographic change, presenting evidence about ways in which rising working-class expectations about appropriate living standards may have created additional press...
Interpreting seventeenth-century probate documents: John Carter, master carpenter in St Albans [0.03%]
解读17世纪遗嘱文件：圣奥尔本斯的首席木匠约翰·卡特
Jane Harris,Pat Howe
Jane Harris
This is a study of a successful seventeenth-century carpenter in St Albans, John Carter, using probate and other documents, assisted by a large-scale computer database of St Albans residents of the period. Sections of the article cover his ...
Andy Gritt,Peter Park
Andy Gritt
This article investigates the characteristics of the workhouse populations in Lancashire in 1881. The analysis is based on the snapshot view provided by the 1881 census and, despite the limitations of such an approach, this large-scale surv...
Chris Galley,Eilidh Garrett,Ros Davies et al.
Chris Galley et al.
This article examines the extent to which living siblings were given identical first names. Whilst the practice of sibling name-sharing appeared to have died out in England during the eighteenth century, in northern Scotland it persisted at...
Audrey Eccles
Audrey Eccles
This article traces the salient developments in poor law and vagrancy law that led to the counties of England and Wales being obliged to shoulder the financial burden of the mobile poor throughout the eighteenth century. It shows that despi...
Yet another inquiry into the trustworthiness of eighteenth-century London's Bills of Mortality [0.03%]
试论18世纪伦敦死亡周报表的可信度
Jeremy Boulton,Leonard Schwarz
Jeremy Boulton
This is an enquiry into how eighteenth-century London's Bills of Mortality were compiled. It concludes that while they remain tolerably accurate in aggregate, particularly when considered over a number of years, they are liable to be very m...
John Perkins
John Perkins
This article examines the birth/baptism interval in 68 Anglican parishes. It provides a continuous annual record from 1646 to 1917 thereby augmenting previous studies in which periods such as the 1640s, the mid-eighteenth and late-nineteent...
A review of methods for identifying mortality 'crises' using parish record data [0.03%]
基于教区记录数据识别死亡“危机”的方法述评
Andrew Hinde
Andrew Hinde