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- 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
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- 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?
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