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Reading List

Journals:

  • The History of the Family (Elsevier)

  • Family and Community History (Family and Community History Research Society)

Books:

  • Christopher Brooke, The mediaeval idea of marriage (Oxford, 1989

  • Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 (Yale, 1995)

  • J Goody, The development of the family and marriage in Europe (Cambridge, 1983)

  • J Goody, J Thirsk & EP Thompson, Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe 1200-1800 (Cambridge)

  • Ralph A Houlbrooke, The English Family 1450-1700 (Longman, 1984

  • Peter Laslett (ed.) Household and family in past time (Cambridge, 1972)

  • A MacFarlane, Marriage and Love in England 1300-1840 (Oxford, 1986)

  • C Phythian Adams, Societies, Cultures and Kinship 1580-1850 (Leicester, 1993)

  • Richard M Smith, Land, Kinship and Lifecycle (Cambridge, 1984)

  • Lawrence Stone, Family, sex and marriage 1500-1800 (London, 1977)

  • Lawrence Stone, Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857 (Oxford, 1993)

  • Lawrence Stone, The Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987 (Oxford, 1990)

  • R Wall & P Laslett, Family Forms in Historic Europe (Cambridge, 1983)

  • Rosemary O'Day, The Family and family relationships, 1500-1900; England, France and the United States of America (New York, 1994)

  • Stephen Wilson, The Means of Naming: A Social and Cultural History of Personal Naming in Western Europe (London, 1998)

  • E A Wrigley, R Davies, J Oeppen & R S Schofield, English Population History from Family reconstitution 1580-1837 (Cambridge, 1997)
     

 











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