PhD theses

Those marked * obtained a research fellowship following PhD.

2020

• C. Yang, 'The occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1736-1898'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.50491

2019

• A. Wakelam, 'Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37489

2018

• A. S. Gibbs, 'Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.38852
• K. S. Button, 'The Environmental History of the National Grid The Process of Electrification: Infrastructure and Influence'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.31575

2016

• *S. A. J. Keibek, 'The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1850'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.8960
• A. A. Marphatia, 'Predictors and consequences of variability in secondary educational attainment in rural India: A life course approach'.

2015

• K. 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

• J. Day, 'Leaving home and migrating in nineteenth-century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs)'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.31339
• X. You, 'Women's employment in England and Wales, 1851-1911'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.31334

2013

• J. Barker, 'The emergence of agrarian capitalism in early modern England: A reconsideration of farm sizes'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.31295
• L. Boothman, 'Immobility and the immobile: A case study of Long Melford, Suffolk 1661-1861'.
• Z. Crisp, 'The urban back garden in England in the 18th and 19th centuries'.

2012

• J. Woo, 'Wills and bequests: Male and female testators in medieval East Anglia 1400-1520'.

2011

• C. P. Sumnall, 'The historical geography of illegitimacy in the Gurk Valley, Austria, c. 1868 to 1945'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11701

2010

• C. Andrade, 'Population in nineteenth-century Vila do Conde: The demographic dynamics of a north-western Portuguese urban parish'.
• *S. J. Thompson, 'Census taking, political economy and state formation in Britain c. 1790-1840'. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11688

2009

• *S. L. Walters, 'Fertility, morality and marriage in Northwest Tanzania, 1920-1970: a demographic study using parish registers'.

2008

• S. Basten, 'Registration practices in Anglican parishes and Non-Conformist groups in northern England 1770-1840'.

2005

• K. J. Dauteuille, 'Household materials and social networks in Norwich 1371-1500: A study of testamentary evidence'.
• *P. M. Kitson, 'Family formation, male occupation and the nature of parochial registration in England, c.1538-1837'.
• *T. Nutt, 'Illegitimacy and the poor law in late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England'.
• J. L. Phillips, 'Collaboration and litigation in two Suffolk manor courts, 1289-1364'.

2004

• D. De Villiers Coetzee, 'Factors accounting for variations in voluntary enlistment in Scotland, August 1914 to December 1915'.
• *J. E. Marfany, 'Proto-industrialisation and demographic change in Catalonia, 1680-1829'.
• R. M. Thompson, 'Economic and social change in a Somerset village, 1700-1851: A microhistory'.
• *T. Dennison, 'Economy and society in rural Russia: The serf estate of Voschazhnikova 1750-1860'.

2003

• S. Dasgupta, 'Poverty, pauperism and parish relief in seventeenth-century intramural London'.

2002

• A. Levene, 'Health and survival chances at the London Foundling Hospital and the Spedale Degli Innocenti of Florence, 1741-99'.
• *C. D. Briggs, 'Rural credit, debt litigation and manor courts in England c. 1290-c. 1380'.
• N. Rushton, 'Monastic Charitable Provision in late Medieval England c. 1260-1540'.

2000

• *C. Frances, 'Networks of the life-course: A case study of Cheshire 1570-1700'.
• *A. M. Reid, 'Infant and child health and mortality in Derbyshire from the Great War to the mid-1920s'.
• *P. S. Warde, 'The ecology of wood use in early modern Wr̈ttemberg, c.1450-1650'.

1999

• *L. M. W. Shaw-Taylor, 'Proletarianisation, parliamentary enclosure and the household economy of the labouring poor 1750-1850'.
• S. K. Williams, 'Poor relief, welfare and medical provision in Bedfordshire: The social, economic and demographic context, c. 1770-1834'.

1998

• S. Lauricella, 'Economic and social influences on marriage in Banbury, 1730-1841'.

1996

• C. Avalos, 'Ageing and modernization. The living arrangements of elderly individuals in a Spanish community: TaÌrrega (1897-1992)'.

1995

• C. R. Husbands, 'The hearth tax and the structures of the English economy'.

1993

• Z. Zhao, 'Household and kinship in recent and very recent Chinese history'.

1992

• R. Adair, 'Regional variation in illegitimacy and courtship behaviour in England, 1538-1754'.
• J. Almecija, 'The family in colonial Venezuela 1745-98: An iconoclastic view'.

1991

• C. Davey, 'Re-constructing local population history: The Hatfield and Bobbingworth district of Essex, 1550-1800'.

1989

• B. Taylor, 'The economic and demographic context of enclosure: A case study from Oxfordshire, c.1550 to 1850'.
• T. Sokoll, 'Household and family among the poor: The case of two Essex communities in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries'.

1988

• *P. Sharpe, 'Gender-specific demographic adjustment to changing economic circumstance: Colyton 1538-1837'.

1987

• *P. J. P. Goldberg, 'Female labour, status and marriage in late medieval York and other English towns'.
• M. A. Clarke, 'Household and family in Bethnal Green, 1851-71: The effects of social and economic change'.

1985

• F. A. C. Newall, 'Socio-economic influences in the demography of Aldenham: An exploration of the techniques and application of family reconstitution'.
• *S. C. Ogilvie, 'Corporatism and regulation in rural industry: Woollen weaving in Württemberg, 1590-1740'.
• A. Pyrgaki, 'The effects of economic and social changes in the Ottomon Empire on a Greek-Turkish community (1870-1922)'.

1984

• J. M. Landers, 'Some problems in the historical demography of London, 1675-1825'.
• *L. R. Poos, 'Population and mortality in two fourteenth-century Essex communities'.
• *S. 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

• G. 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

• C. C. Wilson, 'Marital fertility in pre-industrial England, 1550-1849'.

1981

• *R. A. Houston, 'Aspects of society in Scotland and north east England, c.1550 - c.1750: Social structure, literacy and geographical mobility'.
• *D. C. Souden, 'Pre-industrial English local migration fields'.

1980

• *K. D. M. Snell, 'The standard of living, social relations, the family and labour mobility in south-eastern and western countries, c.1700-1860'.
• D. Thomson, 'Provision for the Elderly in England 1830-1908'.

1979

• V. 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

• R. A. P. Finlay, 'The population of London, 1580-1650'.
• J. P. Morgan, 'Godly learning: Puritan theories of the religious utility of education 1560-1640'.

1976

• E. Todd, 'Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century)'.

1975

• D. C. Levine, 'The demographic implications of rural industrialization, a family reconstitution study of two Leicestershire villages, 1600-1851'.
• R. M. Smith, 'English peasant life-cycles and socio-economic networks: A quantitative geographical case study'.

1974

• *K. Wrightson, 'The Puritan Reformation of manners, with special reference to the counties of Lancashire and Essex'.

1973

• D. A. 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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