British Population History
From the Black Death to the Present Day

The only comprehensive survey of British population from the Black Death to the present day, aimed at students and their teachers.

Michael Anderson (Edited by)

9780521570305, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 July 1996

436 pages, 28 b/w illus.
22.3 x 14.6 x 3.3 cm, 0.729 kg

'By collecting the pamphlets into a single volume and providing newcomers to the subject in what a masterly, up-to-date overview of the progress of demographic trends from medieval times to the early 1990s, the Economic History Society has done a valuable service.' English Historical Review

This book brings together in one volume the four studies on British population history already published in the series New Studies in Economic and Social History, and adds to them a new essay on British population in the twentieth century. Between them, the authors survey the trends and debates in British population history from 1348 to 1991. Research over the past twenty-five years has transformed our understanding of how population has grown and declined, of why the numbers of births, deaths, marriages and migrants have risen and fallen, and thrown much new light on the economic and social impact of these changes. The studies in this book supply introductions to these problems for readers who are not themselves demographers but who, as students, teachers, or non-specialist historians and social scientists, want to know more about what happened and what are the main topics of current debate. Full bibliographies for further study are included.

1. Editor's introduction Michael Anderson
2. Plague, Population, and the English Economy, 1348–1530 John Hatcher
3. The Population History of Britain and Ireland, 1500–1750 R. A. Houston
4. Population Change in North-Western Europe, 1700–1850 Michael Anderson
5. The Population of Britain in the Nineteenth Century Robert Woods
6. British Population History, 1911–1991 Michael Anderson.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]