Opening comments

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Keynote lecture

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Sheilagh Ogilvie: Choices and constraints in the pre-industrial countryside.

Round table discussion session

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Discussant: Chris Dyer

Paper-givers:

• Jacques Beauroy: The social rôles and status of women in a Norfolk small market town: Heacham 1276-1327.
• Richard Britnell: Employment on a northern English farm in the fourteenth century.
• John Broad: Land, inheritance and housing under lifehold: Wylye, Wiltshire 1632-1925.
• Tracy Dennison: Rural society under serfdom in England and Russia.
• Jane Whittle: Servants in the wealthy households of rural England, 1550-1650.

Dinner

No formal arrangements for dining have been organised for this evening; a wide range of local restaurants are available. The college bar will be open until 11pm.

Keynote lecture

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Keith Wrightson: Household networks and the plague.

Round table discussion session

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Discussant: Paul Slack

Paper-givers:

• Jeremy Boulton: Indoors or outdoors? Welfare priorities and pauper choices in the metropolis under the Old Poor Law, 1725-1824.
• 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.
• Margaret Yates and Nigel Goose: Charity and commemoration: Berkshire almshouses in the eighteenth century.

Keynote lecture

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Tony Wrigley: The west European marriage pattern: John Hajnal and historical demography.

Round table discussion session

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Discussant: Michael Anderson

Paper-givers:

• 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.
• Peter Kitson: Marriage processes in the English past revisited.
• Cormac Ó Gráda and Morgan Kelly: The preventive check in medieval and early modern England.
• Alice Reid and Eilidh Garrett: Household formation, marriage and procreative careers in late nineteenth-century Scotland.

Conference Dinner

The Hall, Fitzwilliam College

Keynote lecture

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Bruce Campbell: The population geography of Britain c.1290: a provisional reconstruction.

Round table discussion session

The Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College

Discussant: John Landers

Paper-givers:

• 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 Schofield: Famine and dearth in medieval England: some approaches.
• Roger Schofield: The last visitation of the plague in Sweden: Brakne Hoby in 1710-11.
• Simon Szreter: Health and urban growth 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