Probert, Rebecca
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
- Editor
- Probert, Rebecca
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 266 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137396273
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-48455-3