Writing this book, I have been helped by many kind and generous people. Thank you to Tom
Dark at Manchester University Press for arranging a meeting about this project, and …

Through an examination of their personal letters, this article explores the ways in which
seventeenth-and eighteenth-century gentry parents responded to the illnesses of their …

A key issue in criminology is to account for variation in rates of violence across time and
place. An important variable largely neglected in the literature is individualism. Building on …

Using 192 petitions from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, this article
questions whether petitioning culture in the early modern West Midlands supports the idea …

This paper argues that early agrarian capitalism in England was followed not by an
individualist culture of monetary gain, but rather by a complex mixture of cultural norms …

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Adam Eyre (1614–1661), a yeoman living near the Yorkshire village of Penistone, was
caught up in a longstanding marital conflict with his wife Susannah. Being two strong …

The historiographical debate over whether or not there was a concept of childhood in the
past, whether or not children were severely disciplined in the past and whether or not …

The early modern society, usually considered to be patriarchal, determined precise roles for
women, who were defined by requirements based mainly on their position in the private …

In the early 1620s, people in London yearned for news of foreign affairs. As war raged in the
Holy Roman Empire (the beginnings of the conflict that would come to be known as the …