The Local Population Studies Society Annual Conference
Saturday 18th April 2009, The Law Faculty, University of
Hertfordshire, Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 3RR
Household Economies and Household Structures in Britain
Sponsored by The Economic History Society, The Centre for Regional and
Local History, University of Hertfordshire, and LPSS.
9.20-10.00 Registration and coffee.
10.00-10.05 Welcome Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire and
LPSS)
10.05-11.50 Panel One:
Production and consumption in English households, 1660-1740: a local
view from rural Berkshire Jameson Wooders (University of Reading)
Marriage and the household economy in eighteenth-century England
Joanne Bailey (Oxford Brookes University)
Negotiating the marital economy: the Scottish elite in the long-
eighteenth century Katie Barclay (University of Warwick)
11.50-1.00 Panel Two:
Farmers wives and the farmhouse economy in England, c. 1800-1939
Nicola Verdon (University of Sussex)
Contrasting household structures: miners and agricultural labourers
families in County Durham, 1841-1901 Anne Beckett (formerly
University of Cambridge)
1.00-1.45 AGM of the Local Population Studies Society
1.00-1.30 Lunch
2.30-3.45 Panel Three:
Household economies from working class autobiography Jane
Humphries (University of Oxford)
The households of widowed mothers in the late Victorian East End
Emily Sandy (University of Cambridge)
4.00 Tea and conference closes
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