Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600–2012

1. Introduction
Rebecca Probert

2. Bridewell, bawdy courts and bastardy in early seventeenth-century London
Eleanor Fox, Martin Ingram

3. Cohabitation in context in early seventeenth-century London
Martin Ingram

4. ‘All he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the Girl’: Broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century
Joanne Bailey

5. ‘They lived together as man and wife’: Plebeian cohabitation, illegitimacy, and broken relationships in London, 1700–1840
Samantha Williams

6. Bastardy and divorce trials, 1780–1809
Julie Shaffer

7. Cohabiting couples in the nineteenth-century coronial records of the Midlands Circuit
Elizabeth Hurren, Steven King

8. The kindness of strangers revisited: Fostering, adoption and illegitimacy in England, 1860–1930
Ginger Frost

9. The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s
Rebecca Probert

10. Cohabitation and births outside marriage after 1970: A rapidly evolving phenomenon
John Haskey

11. Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s
Éva Beaujouan, Máire Ní Bhrolcháin

Keywords: History, Modern History, Cultural History, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland