Death and the Metropolis

Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the ''long eighteenth century'' concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality parish registers and Quaker vital registers and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The data are analysed within the framework of a structura...See More