This was the first paperback edition of a classic work of recent English historiography, first published in 1981. In analysing the population of a country over

This is the first paperback edition of a classic work of recent English historiography, first published by Edward Arnold in 1981. Numerous traditional assumptio

This concise volume for students reviews the literature on the population history of Britain and Ireland.

A review of the course of English population history from 1066 to the 1980s, with a particular focus on English family forms.