Recent posts

• The Industrial Revolution in Scotland
• The forgotten Chinese serfs who picked tea for Victorian England
• Beyond the microbe: why social institutions matter for epidemics
• We’ve reached 60! But that’s not all…
• Reconsidering the drivers of population change
• Is the nuclear family broken?
• Was Malthus right?
• From past to present: the persistence of regional inequalities in survival, health and reproduction in England and Wales
• What’s in a name?
• Wedding days
• Sexuality in marriage during and after the fertility decline
• When did spinsters spin?
• The struggle to define self-employment
• Home Duties in the 1921 Census
• Who was self-employed in the past?
• Industriousness and precarity: work before the Industrial Revolution
• When Mrs wasn’t married
• The rise of coal
• When we don’t have a cure or a vaccine, what works?
• How did the elderly poor survive in the past?
• Peasants and the law in medieval England
• Did anyone “retire” in the past?
• Call the midwife! Birth attendance and birth outcomes across history.
• Still living with mum and dad?
• The not-so tropical disease: malaria in northern Europe
• International Women’s Day: Female Entrepreneurs
• Five reasons why service in the past was not like Downton Abbey
• Could farm managers in the middle ages be trusted?
• With whom did older persons reside in the past?
• From cradle to grave
• Who had access to common land?
• The vulnerability of non-marital births
• Working from home in the past
• The growth of the service sector
• Were all workhouses Dickensian? Indoor relief under the Old Poor Law (1601-1834)
• When did England and Wales industrialise?
• High days, hiring-days and holidays: the seasonality of marriage and birth
• Who are these people? Reconstructing life courses using record linking.
• How important was agriculture before and during the Industrial Revolution?
• Was the economy backward before the Industrial Revolution?
• Changing fertility and timing of motherhood in England and Wales – a long view
• To the manor bound: Serfdom in Europe
• Who dies of old age?
• The north-south divide
• The first urban society
• The organic economy
• What kept the rich and the poor apart in industrial Manchester?
• How scarce were the elderly in the British past?
• Did anyone have sex before marriage in the past?
• You’re not from these parts, are you?
• How dangerous was childbirth in the past?
• Sorry, you’ll have to walk!
• Chinese genealogies are different
• Why were Hansel and Gretel not English?
• Stuck in the mud!
• Three score and ten?
• Women have always worked – for pay
• What a big family you have, Grandma!
• Marriage in the Middle Ages
• Why was high family size in the British past so low?
• How modern is the modern family?
• What age did people marry in the British past?
• What was the size of the English population before the first census in 1801 – and how do we know?
• Mrs Man: Why do women take their husbands’ surnames?
• Launching 11 July