Population, economy and welfare, c. 1200-2000: a conference in honour of Richard M. Smith
Papers
Links to these papers are password-protected. Please contact the conference organisers for details.
| Strand 1: Agrarian economy and society |
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Jacques Beauroy: Social roles and status of women in a Norfolk small market town: Heacham c. 1276-1324
Richard Britnell: Employment on a Northern English Farm, 1370-1409
John Broad: Land, inheritance and housing under lifehold: Wylye, Wiltshire 1632-1925
Tracy Dennison: The institutional context of serfdom in England and Russia
Jane Whittle: Servants in rural England 1560-1650: Kussmaul revisited
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| Strand 2: Welfare, ageing and kinship |
Jeremy Boulton: Indoors or Outdoors? Welfare priorities and pauper choices in the metropolis under the Old Poor Law, 1718-1824
Nigel Goose and Margaret Yates: Charity and commemoration: a Berkshire family and their almshouse 1675-1763
Alysa Levene and Susannah Ottaway: Dependency, the workhouse and family ties in later eighteenth-century England
Julie Marfany: Family and welfare in Europe over the ages: a north-south comparison
Stephen Thompson: Parochial, regional or national? Local poor relief legislation and the English Poor Law, 1660-1841
Samantha Williams: Support for the elderly during the "crisis of the Old Poor Law", c.1790-1834
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| Strand 3: Fertility and household formation |
Stuart Basten: Spatial variation of sub-national fertility trends in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 1800-2010
Shane Doyle: Historical demography in East Africa, 1900-1980: explaining fertility change [data]
Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda: The preventive check in medieval and pre-industrial England
Peter Kitson: Marriages processes in the English past revisited
Alice Reid and Eilidh Garrett: Family formation, marriage and procreative careers in late nineteenth-century Scotland [ppt]
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| Strand 4: Mortality, disease and environment |
Richard Hoyle: Some speculations on the stabilisation of mortality and economic development
Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall: Gender, age and mortality in a changing society
Rebecca Oakes: Moving targets: how place of origin affected the life chances of late medieval scholars at Winchester College and New College, Oxford
Phillipp R. Schofield: Approaches to famine in medieval England
Roger Schofield: The last visitation of the plague in Sweden: the case of Bräkne-Hoby, Blekinge in 1710-11
Simon Szreter: Health and urban growth in England in the 'dark age' of Historical Demography c.1750-1850
Zhongwei Zhao and Anna Reimondos: The demography of China's 1958-61 Great Famine: a closer examination
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