Recent publications

Last updated 12/9/1996

Authored books

Neighbourhood and Society. A London Suburb in the seventeenth century (C.U.P, 1987).

Major Articles and Book Chapters

'The limits of formal religion: the administration of Holy Communion in late Elizabethan and Early Stuart London', London Journal 10, 2(1984), 135-54.

'Residential mobility in seventeenth-century Southwark', Urban History Yearbook (1986), 1-14.

'Neighbourhood mobility in its local context', in P. Clark and D. Souden, eds., Migration and Society in Early Modern England (Hutchinson, 1987), 107-49.

'Economy of Time? Wedding Days and the working week in the past', Local Population Studies 43 (1989), 28-46.

'London widowhood revisited: the decline of remarriage in seventeenth-century London', Continuity and Change 5, 3 (1990), 323-55.

'Itching after private marryings? Marriage customs in seventeenth-century London', London Journal 16, 1 (1991), 15-34.

'The naming of children in seventeenth-century London', in D. Postles, ed., Naming, Society and Regional Identity (Leicester, in press, forthcoming 1996).

'The Marriage Duty Act and Parochial Registration in London, 1695-1706', in K. Schurer and T. Arkell, eds., Surveying the People: the importance and use of document sources for the study of population in the late seventeenth century (Local Population Studies Supplement, November 1992), pp. 222-52.

'Clandestine marriages in London: an examination of a neglected urban variable', Urban History 20, 2 (1993), 191-210.

'Wage labour in seventeenth-century London' Economic History Review 49, 2(1996).

Other Publications In Last Five Years

Short articles on 'Family', 'Famine', 'Food riots', 'Household structure', 'Illegitimacy', 'Marriage', 'Nutrition', 'Population Trends' in R. Porter and J. Black, eds. A Dictionary of Eighteenth Century World History (Blackwell, Oxford, November 1994).

Conference Report

'The parish pension in seventeenth-century London', Social History Society Bulletin, 18, 1(1993), 7.

Review Articles

'The Quest for stability in the Early Modern City', review of I. W. Archer, The Pursuit of Stability. Social relations in Elizabethan London (CUP, 1991); ; Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation (Clarendon, 1989); F. J. Fisher, London and the English Economy 1500-1700, eds. P. J. Corfield and N. B. Harte, (Hambledon, 1990), in Journal of Urban History 19, 4 (1993), 110-15.

R. B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment; D. Andrew, Philanthropy and Police; P. J. Atkins, The Directories of London, Continuity and Change 8, 1(1993), 131-37.

'Review of Periodical Literature, 1500-1700, 1992', Economic History Review XLVII, 1(1994), 173-80.

'Review of Periodical Literature, 1500-1700, 1993', Economic History Review XLVIII, 1 (Feb 1995), 159-66.

'Review of Periodical Literature, 1500-1700, 1994', Economic History Review XLIX, 1 (Feb 1996).

'Review of Periodical Literature, 1500-1700, 1995', Economic History Review L, 1 (Feb 1997).

'Medicine, charity and the poor in early modern England': review article of M. Fissell, Patients, Power and the Poor (CUP, 1991); J. Barry and C. Jones, Medicine and Charity before the Welfare State (Routledge, 1991); L. Davison et al, eds., Stilling the Grumbling Hive (1992). in Continuity and Change (1995).

Work forthcoming

Going on the parish: The parish pension and its meaning in the London suburbs, 1640-1724 in P. Sharpe and T. Hitchcock eds., Words of the Poor, Lives of the Poor (Manchester University Press, forthcoming, in press).

London 1540-1700 in Cambridge Urban History of Britain, forthcoming.

Short articles on birth control; famine; households;London, growth of; marriage; Marriage Act, 1753; Malthus; parish registers; plague; Stow, John forthcoming in J. Cannon, ed., The Oxford Companion to British History.

Short articles on Marriage and marriage law; Southwark; Population; Family in A. F. Kinney ed., Tudor England: An Encyclopedia.

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