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Published and unpublished papers

Conference and Seminar Papers

Harding, Vanessa, 'Shops, markets and retailers in London's Cheapside, c.1500-1700', conference on 'Le parfait négociant: Buyers, sellers and salesmanship in medieval and early modern Europe', Antwerp University, November 2003

Harding, Vanessa, 'Families, households and housing in early modern London', North American Conference on British Studies, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004

Newton, Gill, 'Family reconstitution of three Cheapside parishes', Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Graduate Seminar, Cambridge, November 2004 [Abstract; Presentation slides (pdf format; 1 MB)]

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, '"For the house her self and one servant": households and families in late seventeenth-century London', Metropolitan History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, January 2005

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, 'Family, housing and household in early modern London', Pre-Modern Towns Group Annual Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, January 2005

Harding, Vanessa, 'Families, households and housing in early modern London', Research seminar, University of Southampton, February 2005

Harding, Vanessa, 'Home and household in later medieval London', conference on 'Medieval Domesticity: Home, housing and household', Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies, New York, NY, March 2005

Newton, Gill, 'Marriage à la mode: matrimony and mobility among the inhabitants of early modern Clerkenwell', conference on 'Beyond Shakespeare's Globe: People, Place and Plays in the Middlesex suburbs 1400-1700', London Metropolitan Archives, London, October 2005

Newton, Gill, 'Church and clandestine marriage among the inhabitants of Clerkenwell, 1695-1753', 'Rhythms and Rituals Workshop', University of Leicester, Leicester, November 2005

Harding, Vanessa, 'Cheapside: commerce and commemoration', symposium on early modern London, the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, December 2005

Newton, Gill, 'Church and clandestine marriage among the inhabitants of Clerkenwell, 1550-1753', Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure seminar, Cambridge, December 2005 [Abstract; Presentation slides (pdf format; 5.7MB)]

Newton, Gill and Smith, Richard, 'Demographic patterns in late seventeenth-century Cheapside', Economic History Society Annual Conference, Reading, April 2006 [Abstract; Presentation slides (pdf format; 656K)]

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, 'Family and household in late seventeenth century London', Economic History Society Annual Conference, Reading, April 2006

Harding, Vanessa, 'Housing and households in seventeenth-century London', Economic History Society Annual Conference, Reading, April 2006

Harding, Vanessa, 'Living and lodging in Shakespeare's London', conference on 'Shakespeare: portraiture, biography, and the material world', National Portrait Gallery, London, May 2006

Merry, Mark, 'Putting people in place: the jigsaw project', University of Birmingham, June 2006

Newton, Gill, 'Assessing changes in the London family through family reconstitution: marriage, fertility and family size in suburban Clerkenwell and five City parishes', European Association for Urban History conference, Stockholm, August 2006

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, 'Households and families in seventeenth century London', European Association for Urban History Conference, Stockholm, August 2006

Newton, Gill, 'The demographic experience of the London suburbs, 1550-1750: a case study of Clerkenwell', British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference, Southampton, September 2006

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, 'Households and families in seventeenth century London: a social snapshot', British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference, Southampton, September 2006

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Publications

Harding, Vanessa, 'Shops, markets and retailers in London's Cheapside, c.1500-1700', in Buyers, sellers and salesmanship in medieval and early modern Europe, ed. B. Blondé, P. Stabel, J. Stobart and I. Van Damme (Brepols, Turnhout, 2006), pp. 155-70

Harding, Vanessa, 'Familiesand housing in seventeenth-century London', Parergon (forthcoming, 2008)

Harding, Vanessa, 'Cheapside: commerce and commemoration', in The Huntington Library conference proceedings (forthcoming)

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, '"For the house her self and one servant": family and household in late seventeenth-century London (in progress)

Merry, Mark and Baker, Philip, 'Parishes, parishioners and peripheries: residence and status in early modern London' (in progress; abstract)

Newton, Gill, 'Infant feeding practices, social status and mortality variations in London, c.1550-1750' (in progress; abstract)

Newton, Gill, 'Marriage à la mode: parochial and irregular marriage among the inhabitants of Clerkenwell from 1550-1753' (in progress; abstract)

Newton, Gill, 'Residence and vital registration in late 17th and early 18th century Cheapside, London: a comparison between a family reconstitution and the Marriage Duty Act assessments and collectors' returns of 1695-1706' (in progress)

Newton, Gill and Smith, Richard, 'Rising infant mortality and environment in London c.1650-1750' (in progress)

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Project data archive

A summary of the grant application, end-of-year (October 2004 and October 2005) and end-of-project reports to the AHRC are available from the University of London School of Advanced Study's e-repository, SAS-Space.

The main database created by the project has been deposited with accompanying documentation with the History Data Service at the UK Data Archive (Study number 5791). It is also available from SAS-Space.

The following data collections are also available from SAS-Space:

The 'Cheapside Gazetteer' of the property histories is available on British History Online.

The Hearth Tax returns, for Cheapside parishes for 1662-3 and January 1666 are also available on British History Online.

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Further reading

  • London's Past Online (http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/london.asp) is a comprehensive bibliography for the history of London, funded by the AHRC Resource Enhancement Scheme, award no. RE/AN8717/APN13604
  • Boulton, Jeremy , 'Itchings after private marryings? Marriage customs in 17th-century London', London Journal 16 (1991), 15-34
  • Brodsky Elliott, Vivien, 'Single women in the London marriage market: age, status and mobility, 1598-1619', in Outhwaite, R.B., ed., Marriage and society: studies in the social history of marriage (1981), 81-100
  • Champion, Justin, London's Dreaded Visitation. The social geography of the Great Plague in 1665 (1995)
  • Dabhoiwala, Faramerz, 'The pattern of sexual immorality in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London', in Griffiths, P., and M.Jenner, eds., Londinopolis. Essays in the social and cultural history of early modern London (2000), 86-106
  • Earle, Peter, The making of the English Middle Class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 (1989)
  • Earle, Peter, A city full of people: men and women of London 1650-1750 (1994)
  • Fildes, Valerie , 'Maternal feelings re-assessed : child abandonment and neglect in London and Westminster, 1550-1800', in Fildes, Women as mothers in pre-industrial England (1990), 139-78
  • Finlay, Roger, Population and metropolis: the demography of London, 1580-1640 (1981)
  • Forbes, T.R. Chronicle from Aldgate- Life and death in Shakespeare's London (1971)
  • Glass, D.V., ed., London Inhabitants within the Walls, 1695 (London Record Society 2, 1966)
  • Gowing, Laura, Domestic dangers : women, words and sex in early modern London (1996)
  • Harding, Vanessa, 'Reconstructing medieval London', London Topographical Record 25 (1985), 1-12
  • Harding, Vanessa, 'The population of London, 1550-1700: a review of the published evidence', London Journal 15 (1990), 111-28
  • Keene, Derek, Cheapside before the Great Fire (ESRC pamphlet, 1985)
  • Keene, Derek, and Harding, Vanessa, A Survey of documentary sources for property holding in London before the Great Fire (London Record Society 22, 1985; text available online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=582)
  • Keene, Derek, and Harding, Vanessa, Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire, vol. i, Cheapside (microfiche, Chadwyck-Healey 1987; full text available online at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=8)
  • Macfarlane, Steven, 'Social policy and the poor in the later seventeenth century', in Beier, A.L., and Roger Finlay, eds., London 1500-1700, the making of the metropolis (1986), 252-77
  • Meldrum, Tim, Domestic service and gender, 1660-1750. Life and work in the London household (2000)
  • Pepys, Samuel, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-69, ed. R.Latham and W.Matthews (1970-83)
  • Rappaport, Steve, Worlds within worlds. Structures of life in sixteenth-century London (1989)
  • Seaver, Paul, Wallington's world: a puritan artisan in 17th-century London (1985)
  • Spence, Craig, London in the 1690s, a social atlas (2000)
  • Wrigley, E.A. and Schofield, R., The population history of England, 1538-1851. A reconstruction (1981)
  • Wrigley, E.A. and Schofield, R., 'Infant and child mortality in the late Tudor and early Stuart period', in C.Webster, ed., Health, medicine and mortality in Tudor & Stuart England (1979)
  • Wrigley, E.A., Davies, R.S., Oeppen, J.E., and Schofield, R., English population history from family reconstitution, 1580-1837 (1997)

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