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

Today, cohabiting relationships account for most births outside marriage. But what was the situation in earlier centuries? Bringing together leading historians, demographers and lawyers, this interdisciplinary collection draws on a wide range of sources to examine the changing context of non-marital child-bearing in England and Wales since 1600.

Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University, UK Éva Beaujouan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Eleanor Fox, Independent Scholar, UK Ginger Frost, Samford University, US John Haskey, University of Oxford, UK Elizabeth Hurren, University of Leicester, UK Martin Ingram, University of Oxford, UK Steve King, University of Leicester, UK Máire Ní Bhrolcháin, University of Southampton, UK Julie Shaffer, University of Wisconsin, US Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick, UK Samantha Williams, University of Cambridge, UK