PhD theses

The following are PhD theses by members of the Group.

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Year	Forename	Surname	Thesis title
In progress	Emily	Chung	Urbanization and Social Division in Victorian Manchester, 1851-1901.
In progress	Jessica	Collins	Female Entrepreneurs in Eighteenth-Century London: A Prosopographical Study of Businesswomen in Lombard Street, Gracechurch Street and Cornhill in the City of London.
In progress	Emma	Diduch	Fertility Decline and Women's Labour Force Participation in Late 19th Century Derbyshire.
In progress	Jerome	Gasson	The Auditing of Manorial Accounts on the Clare Estate, 1317-1360.
In progress	Stuart	Henderson	The Industrialisation of the English and Welsh Leather Economy, 1700-1900.
In progress	Elizabeth	Isaac	Subsistence crises and the spread of plague across Eurasia and the Mediterranean Littoral between 1850-1960.
In progress	Caroline	Keinast von Einem	Exploring the Impact of Residential Relocation on Population Health Interventions.
In progress	Emma	Kelso	The impact of economic shocks on the nineteenth-century British urban poor.
In progress	Madeleine	Miller	Heart of the Empire: Constructing London's Docklands, 1799-1886.
In progress	Sarah	Rafferty	New methods to answer old questions: a study of London infant and child mortality at the turn of the twentieth century.
In progress	Annisa	Ratri	Greying in the Coast: Understanding the Intersection of Gender Inequality and Ageing in Fishing Communities.
In progress	Jenny	Smart	Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914.
In progress	Auriane	Terki-Mignot	Patterns of Female Employment in France, 1792-1901
In progress	Joanne	Wallace	Nineteenth Century English Rural Population Mobility and Small Market Towns
In progress	Gin	Warren	The Loudon family as social entrepreneurs in the first half of the nineteenth century.
2023	Ying	Dai	The occupational structure of the Yangtze Valley in the twentieth century
2022	Stephanie	Brown	Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85
2022	Papa Momodou	Jack	Equity in healthcare: Stakeholder perceptions on the implementation of the Community-Based Health Insurance scheme in Ethiopia
2022	Tobias	Lunde	An Economic Geography of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland, c.1760–1840
2022	Alexander	Tertzakian	Wages, employment, and technological change in English cotton spinning, c.1780-1850
2020	Lander	Bosch	On shape and being shaped: the relation between overweight and obesity in London's schoolchildren and the energy-expending characteristics of their built environment
2020	Cheng	Yang	The occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1736-1898
2019	Alexander	Wakelam	Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
2018	Alex Spike	Gibbs	Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600
2018	Katherine Shillabeer	Button	The Environmental History of the National Grid The Process of Electrification: Infrastructure and Influence
2016	Sebastiaan Antonius Johannes	Keibek	The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1850
2016	Akanksha	Marphatia	Predictors and consequences of variability in secondary educational attainment in rural India: A life course approach.
2015	Keith	Sugden	An occupational analysis of the worsted industry, circa 1700-1851. A study of de-industrialization in Norfolk and the rise of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
2014	Joseph	Day	Leaving home and migrating in nineteenth-century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs)
2014	Xuesheng	You	Women's employment in England and Wales, 1851-1911
2013	Joseph David	Barker	The emergence of agrarian capitalism in early modern England: A reconsideration of farm sizes
2013	Lyn	Boothman	Immobility and the immobile: A case study of Long Melford, Suffolk 1661-1861.
2013	Zoe	Crisp	The urban back garden in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2012	Jessie	Woo	Wills and bequests: Male and female testators in medieval East Anglia 1400-1520.
2011	Catherine Patricia	Sumnall	The historical geography of illegitimacy in the Gurk Valley, Austria, c. 1868 to 1945
2010	Cristiana	Viegas de Andrade	Population in nineteenth-century Vila do Conde: The demographic dynamics of a north-western Portuguese urban parish.
2010	Stephen John	Thompson	Census taking, political economy and state formation in Britain c. 1790-1840
2009	Sarah L.	Walters	Fertility, morality and marriage in Northwest Tanzania, 1920-1970: a demographic study using parish registers.
2008	Stuart	Basten	Registration practices in Anglican parishes and Non-Conformist groups in northern England 1770-1840.
2005	Karine Jeanne	Dauteuille	Household materials and social networks in Norwich 1371-1500: A study of testamentary evidence.
2005	Peter Michael	Kitson	Family formation, male occupation and the nature of parochial registration in England, c.1538-1837.
2005	Thomas William	Nutt	Illegitimacy and the poor law in late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England.
2005	Jennifer Louise	Phillips	Collaboration and litigation in two Suffolk manor courts, 1289-1364.
2004	Daniel	De Villiers Coetzee	Factors accounting for variations in voluntary enlistment in Scotland, August 1914 to December 1915.
2004	Julie	Marfany	Proto-industrialisation and demographic change in Catalonia, 1680-1829.
2004	Rhiannon	Thompson	Economic and social change in a Somerset village, 1700-1851: A microhistory.
2004	Tracy K.	Dennison	Economy and society in rural Russia: The serf estate of Voschazhnikova 1750-1860.
2003	Anisha Sasheen	Dasgupta	Poverty, pauperism and parish relief in seventeenth-century intramural London.
2002	Alysa	Levene	Health and survival chances at the London Foundling Hospital and the Spedale Degli Innocenti of Florence, 1741-99.
2002	Chris	Briggs	Rural credit, debt litigation and manor courts in England c. 1290-c. 1380.
2002	Neil S.	Rushton	Monastic Charitable Provision in late Medieval England c. 1260-1540.
2000	Catherine	Frances	Networks of the life-course: A case study of Cheshire 1570-1700.
2000	Alice	Reid	Infant and child health and mortality in Derbyshire from the Great War to the mid-1920s.
2000	Paul	Warde	The ecology of wood use in early modern Wr̈ttemberg, c.1450-1650.
1999	Leigh	Shaw-Taylor	Proletarianisation, parliamentary enclosure and the household economy of the labouring poor 1750-1850.
1999	Samantha K.	Williams	Poor relief, welfare and medical provision in Bedfordshire: The social, economic and demographic context, c. 1770-1834.
1998	Sharon	Lauricella	Economic and social influences on marriage in Banbury, 1730-1841.
1996	Carmen del Pino	Avalos	Ageing and modernization. The living arrangements of elderly individuals in a Spanish community: TaÌrrega (1897-1992).
1995	Christopher Roy	Husbands	The hearth tax and the structures of the English economy.
1993	Shongwei	Zhao	Household and kinship in recent and very recent Chinese history.
1992	Richard	Adair	Regional variation in illegitimacy and courtship behaviour in England, 1538-1754.
1991	Juan	Almecija	The family in colonial Venezuela 1745-98: An iconoclastic view.
1991	Claire	Davey	Re-constructing local population history: The Hatfield and Bobbingworth district of Essex, 1550-1800.
1989	Bridget Jane	Taylor	The economic and demographic context of enclosure: A case study from Oxfordshire, c.1550 to 1850.
1989	Thomas	Sokoll	Household and family among the poor: The case of two Essex communities in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
1988	Pamela	Sharpe	Gender-specific demographic adjustment to changing economic circumstance: Colyton 1538-1837.
1987	Jeremy	Goldberg	Female labour, status and marriage in late medieval York and other English towns.
1987	Martin A.	Clarke	Household and family in Bethnal Green, 1851-71: The effects of social and economic change.
1985	Fiona A. C.	Newall	Socio-economic influences in the demography of Aldenham: An exploration of the techniques and application of family reconstitution.
1985	Sheilagh C.	Ogilvie	Corporatism and regulation in rural industry: Woollen weaving in Württemberg, 1590-1740.
1985	Anna	Pyrgaki	The effects of economic and social changes in the Ottomon Empire on a Greek-Turkish community (1870-1922).
1984	John Maxwell	Landers	Some problems in the historical demography of London, 1675-1825.
1984	Lawrence R.	Poos	Population and mortality in two fourteenth-century Essex communities.
1984	Simon R. S.	Szreter	The decline of marital fertility in England and Wales: A critique of the theory of social class differentials through an investigation of its historical origins and an examination of data for the constituent male occupations.
1983	Granham Arthur	Kerby	Inequality in a pre-industrial society: A study of wealth, status, office and taxation in Tudor and Stuart England with particular reference to Cheshire.
1982	Christopher Cleveland	Wilson	Marital fertility in pre-industrial England, 1550-1849.
1981	Robert Allen	Houston	Aspects of society in Scotland and north east England, c.1550 - c.1750: Social structure, literacy and geographical mobility.
1981	David Charles	Souden	Pre-industrial English local migration fields.
1980	Keith D. M.	Snell	The standard of living, social relations, the family and labour mobility in south-eastern and western countries, c.1700-1860.
1980	David W.	Thomson	Provision for the Elderly in England 1830-1908.
1979	Vivien	Brodsky Elliott	Mobility and marriage in pre-industrial England : A demographic and social structural analysis of geographic and social mobility and aspects of marriage, 1570-1690, with particular reference to London and general reference to Middlesex, Kent, Essex and Hertfordshire.
1977	Roger	Finlay	The population of London, 1580-1650.
1977	John	Morgan	Godly learning: Puritan theories of the religious utility of education 1560-1640.
1976	Emmanuel	Todd	Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century).
1975	David C.	Levine	The demographic implications of rural industrialization, a family reconstitution study of two Leicestershire villages, 1600-1851.
1975	Richard M.	Smith	English peasant life-cycles and socio-economic networks: A quantitative geographical case study.
1974	Keith	Wrightson	The Puritan Reformation of manners, with special reference to the counties of Lancashire and Essex.
1973	David	Cressy	Education and literacy in London and East Anglia, 1580-1700 including appendix: Schoolmasters in the Dioceses of London and Norwich, 1580-1700.

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