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Annals of the Labouring Poor
Church and Chapel in the North Midlands
Rival Jerusalems
Parish and Belonging

His works

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Labour
  • "Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living and women's work in the south and east, 1690-1860", Economic History Review, vol. 33 (1981), pp. 407-437.
  • "Parish registration and the study of labour mobility", Local Population Studies, vol. 33 (1984), pp. 29-43.
  • Rab Houston, "Proto industrialisation? Cottage industry, social change and the Industrial Revolution", Historical Journal, vol. 27 (1984), pp. 473-492.
Welfare
  • `Lone parent families and the Welfare State: past and present', Continuity and Change, 2 (1987), pp. 387 422 (with Jane Millar).
  • `Pauper settlement and the right to poor relief in England and Wales', Continuity and Change, 6 (1991), pp. 375 415.
Theory
  • `Oral history and the academic historian', Common Voice, 1 (1988).
  • `Japanese oral history and women's historiography', Oral History: the Journal of the Oral History Society, 24 (1996), (with H. Tomida), pp. 88-95.
Culture
  • `English historical continuity and the culture of capitalism', History Workshop Journal, 27 (1989), pp. 154 164.
  • `Rural history and folklore studies: towards new forms of association', Folklore, 100 (1989).
  • `The culture of local xenophobia’, Social History, 28 (2003), pp. 1-30.
  • `Gravestones, belonging and local attachment in England, 1700-2000', Past and Present, 179 (2003), pp. 97-134.
  • ‘A drop of water from a stagnant pool? Inter-war detective fiction and the rural community’, Social History, 35 (2010), pp. 21-50.
  • ‘Parish pond to Lake Nyasa: parish magazines and senses of community’, Family and Community History, 13 (2010), pp. 46-71.
  • ‘Voices of the poor: `home' and belonging, `friends' and community’, Economic History Review, (2011)
  • ‘Churchyard closures, rural cemeteries and the village community in Leicestershire and Rutland, 1800-2010’, Jnl. of Ecclesiastical History, 63:4 (2012)
  • 'In or out of their place: the migrant poor in English art, 1740-1900', Rural History, 24:1 (2013), pp. 73-100.
Religion
  • 'From the Compton Census of 1676 to the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: religious continuity or discontinuity?', Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 8 (1996), pp. 55-89 (with Alasdair Crockett).
Loneliness
  • 'Agendas for the Historical Study of Loneliness and Lone Living', The Open Psychology Journal, 2015, 8 (Suppl. 2-M2) pp. 61-70
  • 'The rise of living alone and loneliness in history', Social History, 42:1 (2017), pp. 2-28.
Others/intersections
  • `Rural History: the prospect before us', in Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 1 (1990), (with L. Bellamy & T. Williamson).
  • `Rural history: towards a new disciplinary incorporation', Scottish Economic and Social History, 10 (1990).
  • `Defining the rural', Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 2 (1990), (with T. Williamson & L. Bellamy).
  • `Agrarian histories and our rural past', Journal of Historical Geography (1991), pp. 195 203.
  • `Settlement, poor law and the rural historian: new approaches and opportunities', Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 3 (1992), pp. 145 172.
  • `Deferential bitterness: the social outlook of the rural proletariat in eighteenth and nineteenth century England and Wales', in Michael Bush (ed.), Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe since 1500: Studies in Social Stratification (London, 1992), pp. 158 184.
  • `Rural history and popular culture', in Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 4:1 (1993), with L. Bellamy & T. Williamson. (Introduction to a special issue on `Rural History and Popular Culture').
  • `Women and rural history', in Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 5 (1994), pp. 123-127 (with L. Bellamy & T. Williamson).
  • `The apprenticeship system in British history: the fragmentation of a cultural institution', History of Education, 25 (1996), pp. 303-321.
  • `Famine letters and eye-witness accounts', in G.R. Barterian and D. Evans (eds), Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Detroit, 1998), pp. 245-254.
  • `The Sunday-School Movement in England and Wales: child labour, denominational control and working-class culture', Past and Present, 164 (1999), pp. 122-168.
  • `English rural societies and geographical marital endogamy, 1700-1837’, Economic History Review, LV (2002), pp. 261-297.