List of publications arising directly from the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379–1911 project

Preliminary

Papers currently under review and in progress.

Working papers available online.

Forthcoming

Erickson, A.L., 'Sleepe [married name Burney], Esther (1725–1762)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Occupational Structure and the Escape from Malthusian Constraints in England and Wales, 1381–1911', in R. M. Smith and E. A. Wrigley, eds., Population Histories in Context.

Sugden, K., and Erickson, A. L., 'Estimating the number of cotton handloom weavers in England c. 1780-1813; Women and children hiding in plain sight', Textile History.

Published

2023

Sugden, K., Keibek, S., Wells, J., and Shaw-Taylor, L., Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power, Continuity and Change 38, 2 (2023), pp. 163-91.

Erickson, A.L., and Schmidt, A. Migration. In C. MacLeod, A. Shepard, and M. Ågren (eds.), The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press; 2023.

2022

Bogart, D., Buxton Dunn, O., Alvarez-Palau, E., and Shaw-Taylor, L. Organizations and efficiency in public services: the case of English lighthouses revisited. Economic Inquiry. 2022; 60(2), 975-994. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13060

Bogart, D., You, X., Alvarez-Palau, E., Satchell, M., Shaw-Taylor, L. Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales. Journal of Urban Economics. 2022; 128, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2021.103390

Wakelam, A. Assessing female accountability in the long eighteenth century through debt imprisonment. Economic History Review. 2022; 76(2). ​​​​​https://www.doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13193

Williams, S. Poverty, gender and old age in the Victorian and Edwardian workhouse. Continuity and Change. 2022; 37, 389-421.

Williams, S. The working-age poor and the workhouse, 1851-1911. Local Population Studies. 2022; 109, 42-68.

2021

Bogart, D., Dunn, O., Alvarez-Palau, E.J. and Shaw-Taylor, L. Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail. The Economic History Review. 2021; 74(1), 87-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13004

Erickson, A.L., Wealthy businesswomen and marriage in eighteenth-century London, Business History (2021).

Erickson, A. L. Entries on Celia Fiennes, Eleanor Coade, Anna Letitia Barbauld, the Booth sisters, and Kate Greenaway. In Women from Hackney's History. Hackney Society; 2021.

Erickson, A.L. Review of 'No straight path: Becoming women historians', ed. Elizabeth Jacoway. Journal of Contemporary History. 2021; 56, 1202-1203.

Wakelam, A., Coverture and the debtors' prison in the long eighteenth Century. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2021; 44, 343-360

2020

Dunn, O, 'A Sea of Troubles? Journey Times and Coastal Shipping Routes in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales', The Journal of Transport History. Link to this article.

Shaw-Taylor, L. (ed) Epidemics, disease and mortality in economic history. Virtual special issue of The Economic History Review. 2020; 73(3).

Shaw-Taylor, L. An introduction to the history of infectious diseases, epidemics and the early phases of long-run decline in mortality. In: Shaw-Taylor, L. (ed) Epidemics, disease and mortality in economic history, virtual special issue of The Economic History Review. 2020; 73(3), E1-E19. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13019

Travieso, E., 'United by Grass, Separated by Coal: Uruguay and New Zealand during the First Globalization', Journal of Global History. 2020; 15(2).

You, X., 'Working with husband? 'Occupation's Wife' and Married Women's Employment in the Censuses in England and Wales between 1851 and 1911', Social Science History.

Wrigley, E. A., 'The Interplay of Demographic, Economic, and Social History', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 50, 4, pp. 495-515. Link to this article.

Zucca Micheletto, B., 'The Domestic Space as a Space of Paid and Unpaid Work in Early Modern and Modern Europe: the Contribution of Women's History', in J. Eibach and M. Lanzinger, eds., The domestic sphere in Europe (16th to 19th century). Routledge; 2020.

2019

Alvarez-Palau, E. J., and Dunn, O., 'Database of Historic Ports and Coastal Sailing Routes in England and Wales', Data in Brief, 25 (2019), no. 104188. Link to article

Davenport, R. J., Satchell, M., and Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Cholera as a Sanitary Test of British Cities, 1831–66', History of the Family, Special Issue on Water and Sanitation, 24 (2019), pp. 404–38. Link to article

Erickson, A.L., 'City Women in the 18th Century' outdoor exhibition trail, City of London, 21 Sept - 18 Oct. Link to website.

Erickson A.L. Afterword. In Capern A., McDonagh B., and Aston, J. (eds) Women and the Land, 1500-1900. Boydell Press; 2019.

Rosevear, A., Bogart, D., and Shaw-Taylor, L., 'The Spatial Patterns of Coaching in England and Wales from 1681 to 1836: A Geographic Information Systems Approach', Journal of Transport History, 40 (2019), pp. 418–44. Link to article

Satchell, M., Bennett, R. J., Shaw-Taylor, L., and Bogart, D., 'Constructing Parish-level Data and RSD-level Data on Transport Infrastructure in England and Wales 1851–1911', Working Paper 16: ESRC project ES/M010953: 'Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses', University of Cambridge, 2019. Link to article

Sugden, R., and Sugden, K., 'Economic Development of Interior British Columbia: A Case Study of Wages in the Okanagan, 1911–1921', BC Studies, 201 (2019), pp. 93–124. Link to article

Wrigley, E. A., and Smith, R. M., 'Malthus and the Poor Law', Historical Journal, early online view, 2019. Link to article

You, X., 'Women's Labour Force Participation in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales: Evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books', Economic History Review, early online view, 2019. Link to article

Zucca Micheletto, B., 'A Large 'Umbrella'. Multiple Patterns of Apprenticeship in 18th Century Turin', in M. Prak and P. Wallis, eds., Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2019), pp. 78–105.

Zucca Micheletto, B., 'Documents and Local Networks: Monitoring Migrants and Workers in 18th Century Turin', in H. Greefs and A. Winter, eds., Migration Policies and the Materiality of Identification in European cities 1500–2000 (London-New York, 2019), pp. 87–110.

2018

Davenport, R. J., Satchell, M., and Shaw-Taylor, L., 'The Geography of Smallpox in England before Vaccination: a Conundrum Resolved', Social Science & Medicine, 206 (2018), pp. 75–85. Link to article

Enflo, K., Alvarez-Palau, E., and Marti-Henneberg, J., 'Transportation and Regional Inequality: the Impact of Railways in the Nordic Countries, 1860–1960', Journal of Historical Geography, 62 (2018), pp. 51–70. Link to article

Erickson, A. L., 'Esther Sleepe, Fanmaker, and her Family', Eighteenth-Century Life, 42 (2018), pp. 15–37. Link to article

Field, J., 'Economic Change in a London Suburb: Southwark, c.1601–1881', London Journal, 43 (2018), pp. 243–66. Link to article

Field, J., London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery (Abingdon, 2018).

Martí-Henneberg, J., and Alvarez-Palau, E. J., 'Railroads and Population Distribution: HGIS Data and Indicators for Spatial Analysis', in I. Gregory, D. DeBats and D. Lafreniere, eds., The Routledge Companion to Spatial History (Abingdon, 2018), pp. 54–75.

Shaw-Taylor, L., and You, X., 'The Development of the Railway Network in Britain 1825–1911', in L. Shaw-Taylor, D. Bogart and M. Satchell, eds., The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680–1911, 2018.

Sugden, K., 'Clapham Revisited: The Transference of the Worsted Industry from Norfolk to the West Riding, c. 1700–1851', Continuity and Change, 33 (2018), pp. 203–24. Link to article

Sugden, K., Keibek, S., and Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Adam Smith Revisited: Coal and the Location of the Woollen Manufacture in England Before Mechanization, c.1500–1820', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 33, 2018. PDF

Wrigley, E. A., 'The General and the Particular', Local Population Studies, 100 (2018), pp. 25–32.

Wrigley, E. A., 'The Preventive Check and the Poor Law: the Malthusian Model and its Implications', in S. Stimson, ed., T. R. Malthus, An Essay of the Principle of Population (New Haven, 2018).

Wrigley, E. A., 'Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution: England and Wales', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 49 (2018), pp. 9–42. Link to article

Zucca Micheletto, B., 'Micro-Mobilité au Quotidien: Pluriactivité, Métiers et Appartenances Sociales dans l'Italie Moderne (Turin XVIIIe–XIXe Siècles)', in A. Caracausi, N. Rolla and M. Schnyder, eds., Travail et Mobilité en Europe XVe–XIXe Siècles (Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2018), pp. 107–31.

2017

Bogart, D., 'The Turnpike Roads of England and Wales', in L. Shaw-Taylor, D. Bogart and M. Satchell, eds., The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680–1911, 2017. PDF

Field, J., 'Clandestine Weddings at the Fleet Prison, c.1710–1750: Who Married There?', Continuity and Change, 32 (2017), pp. 349–77. Link to article

Keibek, S., 'By-employments in Early Modern England and Their Significance for Estimating Historical Male Occupational Structures', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 29, 2017. PDF

Keibek, S., 'Correcting the Probate Inventory Record for Wealth Bias', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 28, 2017. PDF

Keibek, S., 'Allocating Labourers to Occupational (Sub-)Sectors Using Regression Techniques', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 27, 2017. PDF

Keibek, S., 'Using Probate Data to Determine Historical Male Occupational Structures', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 26, 2017. PDF

Obschonka, M., Stuetzer, M., Rentfrow, P. J., Shaw-Taylor, L., Satchell, M., Silbereisen, R. K., Potter, J., and Gosling, S. D., 'In the Shadow of Coal: How Large-Scale Industries Contributed to Present-Day Regional Differences in Personality and Well-Being', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115 (online early view 2017, print 2018), pp. 903–27. Link to article

Satchell, M., 'Navigable Waterways and the Economy of England and Wales 1600–1835', in L. Shaw-Taylor, D. Bogart and M. Satchell, eds., The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680–1911, 2017. PDF

Sugden, K., 'An Occupational Study to Track the Rise of Adult Male Mule Spinning in Lancashire and Cheshire, 1777–1813', Textile History, 48 (2017), pp. 160–75. Link to article

Sugden, R., and Sugden, K., 'Economic Development of Interior British Columbia: A Case Study of Occupations in the Okanagan, 1881–1921', BC Studies, 194 (2017), pp. 65–89. Link to article

Sugden, K., and Cockerill, A., 'The Wool and Cotton Textile Industries in England and Wales up to 1850', in L. Shaw-Taylor, A. Cockerill and M. Satchell, eds., The Online Historical Atlas of Occupational Structure and Population Geography in England and Wales 1600–2011, 2017. PDF

Stanev, K., Alvarez-Palau, E. J., and Martí-Henneberg, J., 'Railway Development and the Economic and Political Integration of the Balkans, c. 1850–2000', Europe-Asia Studies, 69 (2017), pp. 1601–25. Link to article

Travieso, E., 'Railroads and Regional Economies in Uruguay, c.1910', Revista Uruguaya de Historia Económica, 7 (2017), pp. 30–57. Link to article

Wrigley, E. A., 'A New Look at the Industrial Revolution', The Letter, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, 96 (2017), pp. 24–32. PDF

You, X., 'The Missing Half: Female Employment in Victorian England and Wales', in L. Shaw-Taylor, A. Cockerill and M. Satchell, eds., The Online Historical Atlas of Occupational Structure and Population Geography in England and Wales 1600–2011, 2017. PDF

Zucca Micheletto, B., 'Privilegi Economici, Corporazioni e Rapporti di Potere negli Stati Sabaudi (1680–1799). Una Ricerca in Corso', RISES Ricerche di Storia Economica e Sociale, 1 (2017), pp. 139–161. Link to article

2016

Stuetzer, M., Obschonka, M., Audretsch, D. B., Wyrwich, M., Rentfrow, P. J., Coombes, M., Shaw-Taylor, L., and Satchell, M., 'Industry Structure, Entrepreneurship, and Culture: An Empirical Analysis Using Historical Coalfields', European Economic Review, 86 (2016), pp. 52–72. Link to article

Sugden, K., 'The Location of the Textile Industry in England and Wales, 1813–1820', Textile History, 47 (2016), pp. 208–26. Link to article

Wrigley, E. A., The Path to Sustained Growth: England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, 2016). [Chapter 5, 'Changing Occupational Structure and Consumer Demand', arises from the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379–1911 project]

2014

Erickson, A. L., 'Mistresses and Marriage: Or, a Short History of the Mrs.', History Workshop Journal, 78 (2014), pp. 39–57. Link to article

McGeevor, S., 'How Well Did the 19th Century Census Record Women's 'Regular' Employment in England and Wales? A Case Study of Hertfordshire in 1851', History of the Family, 19 (2014), pp. 489–512. Link to article

Shaw-Taylor, L., and Wrigley, E. A., 'Occupational Structure and Population Change', in R. Floud, J. Humphries and P. Johnson, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume I, 1700–1870 (Cambridge, 2014), pp. 53–88.

Wrigley, E. A., 'Urban Growth in Early Modern England: Food, Fuel, and Transport', Past and Present, 225 (2014), pp. 79–112. Link to article

2013

Casson, M., Shaw-Taylor, L., Satchell, A. E., and Wrigley, E. A., 'Railways and Local Population Growth: Northamptonshire and Rutland, 1801–91', in M. Casson and N. Hashimzade, eds., Large Databases in Economic History: Research Methods and Case Studies (London, 2013).

Field, J., 'Domestic Service, Gender, and Wages in Rural England, c.1700–1860', Economic History Review, 66 (2013), pp. 249–72. Link to article

Keibek, S., and Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Early Modern Rural By-employments: A Re-examination of the Probate Inventory Evidence', Agricultural History Review, 61 (2013), pp. 244–81. PDF

Wrigley, E. A., 'Energy and the English Industrial Revolution', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 371 (2013), 2011.0568. Link to article

2012

Erickson, A. L., 'Marital Status and Economic Activity: Interpreting Spinsters, Wives, and Widows in Pre-census Population Listings', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 7, 2012. PDF

Kitson, P. M., Shaw-Taylor, L., Wrigley, E. A., Davies, R. S., Newton, G., and Satchell, A. E., 'The Creation of a 'Census' of Adult Male Employment for England and Wales for 1817', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 4, 2012&2013. PDF

Shaw-Taylor, L., 'The Rise of Agrarian Capitalism and the Decline of Family Farming in England', Economic History Review, 65 (2012), pp. 26–60. Link to article

2011

Erickson, A. L., 'Eleanor Mosley and Other Milliners in the City of London Companies 1700–1750', History Workshop Journal, 71 (2011), pp. 147–72. Link to article

Wrigley, E. A., 'Coping with Rapid Population Growth: How England Fared in the Century Preceding the Great Exhibition of 1851', in D. Feldman and J. Lawrence, eds., Structures and Transformations in Modern British History: Essays for Gareth Stedman-Jones (Cambridge, 2011), pp. 24–53.

Wrigley, E. A., The Early English Censuses (Oxford, 2011).

2010

Wrigley, E. A., Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, 2010). [Chapter 5, 'Occupational Structure, Aggregated Income, and Migration', arises from the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379–1911 project]

2009

Erickson, A. L., 'What Shall we Do About the Servants?: Carolyn Steedman, Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age, and Alison Light, Mrs Woolf and the Servants' [review], History Workshop Journal, 67 (2009), pp. 277–86.

Erickson, A. L., 'Alison Kay, The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and Household in London c.1800–1870' [review], Reviews in History (2009), no. 917. Link to article

Wrigley, E. A., 'Rickman Revisited: the Population Growth Rates of English Counties in the Early Modern Period', Economic History Review, 62 (2009), pp. 711–35. Link to article

2008

Erickson, A. L., 'Married Women's Occupations in Eighteenth-century London', Continuity and Change, 23 (2008), pp. 267–307. Link to article

Erickson, A. L., 'Women's Work in the Eighteenth Century: Nancy Locklin, Women's Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany, and Isabelle Baudino, et al (eds) Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain' [review], Reviews in History (2008), no. 708a. Link to article

2007

Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Diverse Experiences: The Geography of Adult Female Employment and the 1851 Census', in N. Goose, ed., Women's Work in Industrial England: Regional and Local Perspectives (Hatfield, 2007), pp. 29–50.

Wrigley, E. A., 'English County Populations in the Later Eighteenth Century', Economic History Review, 60 (2007), pp. 35–69. Link to article

2005

Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Family Farms and Capitalist Farms in Mid Nineteenth Century England', Agricultural History Review, 53 (2005), pp. 158–91. Link to article