Local Population Studies Society

The journal Local Population Studies

The journal Local Population Studies was first published as a newsletter and magazine in 1968. Since then it has become a more formal journal. It is published bi-annually and is the world's only journal on matters relating to population within a local or community context. Its emphasis is on Great Britain, but occasional articles about other local communities are published. Subscription to Local Population Studies is included within membership of the LPSS. For details of how to subscribe to the Society see the Contact page. For details of submitting articles to LPS see the Journal Submissions page.

This page contains shortened contents for each issue since issue 71. Contents of other back issues can be found through the numbered links on the left hand menu. Alternatively, there is an author index for issues 1-60. The Back Issues page gives details of how to order paper copies of the journal.

Contents of current issue of Local Population Studies:

Local Population Studies Number 84 (Spring 2010)

Contents include:
Robert Grant, Domestic service in a small market town: Crickhowell, 1851-1901
Peter Razzell, Christine Spence and Matthew Wollard, The evauluation of Bedfordshire burial registration, 1538-1851
Andrew Hinde and Michael Edgar, Death on a strange isle: the mortality of the stone workers of Purbeck in the nineteenth century
Nigel Goose, Victorian and Edwardian almspeople: Doughty's Hospital, Norwich, 1837-1911
Andrew Hinde, A review of methods for identifying mortality 'crises' using parish register data
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.

To order a copy for £4.50 contact: lps@herts.ac.uk

Contents of recent back issues of Local Population Studies (back to 2003):

Local Population Studies Number 83 (Autumn 2009)

Contents include:
Robert Tyler, Welsh settlement patterns in a nineteeth-century Australian gold town
Nicola Sheldon, Families in the firing line: prosecutions for truancy in Coventry, 1874-1899
Adrian Ager and Catherine Lee, Prostitution in the Medway towns, 1860-1885
Clive Leivers, Housing and the elderly in nineteenth-century Derbyshire: a comparison of almshouse and workhouse provision
Rebecca Probert and Liam D'Arcy Brown, The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in action: investigating a contemporary complaint
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.

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Local Population Studies Number 82 (Spring 2009)
Contents include:
Mark Freeman and Louise Wannell, The family and community lives of older people after the Second World War: new evidence from York
Dave Postles, Morbidity in an early–modern small town: Loughborough in the seventeenth century
Peter M. Solar and Malcolm T. Smith, Background migration: the Irish (and other strangers) in mid-Victorian Hertfordshire
Colin Pooley, How people moved: researching the experience of mobility in the past
Chris Galley, Infant mortality
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.

To order a copy for £4.50 contact: lps@herts.ac.uk

Local Population Studies Number 81 (Autumn 2008)

Contents include:
E.A. Wrigley, Population history: recent changes and current prospects
Richard Smith, Linking the local and the general in population history: prioritising migration
Nigel Goose and Chris Galley, Local population studies – forty years on
Christopher French, Persistence in a local community: Kingston Upon Thames 1851–1891
Heather Falvey, Searching for the population in an early–modern forest
Jonathan Healey, Socially selective mortality during the population crisis of 1727–1730: evidence from Lancashire
Chris Galley, The stillbirth rate in early–modern England
Matthew Woollard, The causes and effects of error correction in the population totals of the 1801 census of England and Wales
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.

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Local Population Studies Number 80 (Spring 2008)
Contents include:
Remco Knooihuizen, Inter-ethnic marriage patterns in late sixteenth-century Shetland.
Janet Hudson, The incorporation of evidence about local nonconformity into parish population reconstruction
Audrey Perkyns, The admission of children to the Milton Union Workhouse, Kent, 1835–1885
Rebecca Probert and Liam D'Arcy Brown, Catholics and the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753
Nigel Goose, Measuring illegitimate fertility
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.

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Local Population Studies Number 79 (Autumn 2007)
Contents include:
Dennis Mills, Rob Wheeler and Matthew Woollard, Some comparative perspectives on two early-Victorian registrars of births and deaths in rural Lincolnshire in the context of national legislation.
Jon Stobart, Food retailers and rural communities: Cheshire butchers in the long eighteenth century.
Andy Gritt, Mortality crises and household structure: an analysis of parish registers and the Compton Census, Broughton, Lancashire, 1667-1676.
Sara Horrell, David Meredith and Deborah Oxley, Anthrometric measures of living standards and gender inequality in nineteenth-century Britain.
Christine Jones, "The fitness of the person employed": comments in the Scottish census emumerators' books.
Dov Friedlander and Barbara S. Okun, Demographic processes in England and Wales, 1851-1911: data and model estimates.
Andrew Hinde, Calculating crude birth and death rates for local populations during the 'parish register era'.
Regular features: editorial, review of periodical literature.

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Local Population Studies Number 78 (Spring 2007)
Contents include:
Christine Jones, Ethnicity and health: a comparison between the responses to the question on ethnicity in the 1991 census and health service records.
Bernard Deacon, Reconstructing a regional migration system: net migration in Cornwall.
Pam Fisher, Getting away with murder? the suppression of coroners' inquests in early victorian England and Wales.
Matthew Woollard, Online historical population reports project.
Nigel Goose and Andrew Hinde, Estimating local population sizes at fixed points in time: part II — Specific sources.
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.

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Local Population Studies Number 77 (Autumn 2006)
Contents include:
Robert Woods, Mortality in eighteenth-century London: a new look at the Bills
Janet Hudson, Parish population reconstruction in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire: an experiment using Wrigley and Schofield's correction factors
Peter Razzell, An evaluation of the reliability of Anglican adult burial registration
Stuart Basten, Out-patient maternity relief in late Georgian Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire
Nigel Goose and Andrew Hinde, Estimating local population sizes at fixed points in time: part I — General principles
Regular features: editorial, review of periodical literature.

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Local Population Studies Number 76 (Spring 2006)
Contents include:
K. Cullen, Baptism to marriage ratios and the reliability of late-seventeenth century Scottish parish registers.
A. Levine, What can Dade registers tell us about infant mortality in the later eighteenth century.
Stuart Basten, From Rose's Bill to Rose's Act: a reappraisal of the 1812 Parish Register Act.
Michael Drake , Surely they made a difference? Health visitors and infant mortality in the 1900s.
Chris Galley, Health visitors: how much difference did they make? — a reply to Michael Drake.
Humphrey Southall, A vision of Britain through time: making sense of 200 years of census reports.
Andrew Hinde, The components of population change
Regular features: editorial, news from the universities, book reviews.
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Local Population Studies Number 75 (Autumn 2005)
Contents include:
D. G. Jackson, The Medway Union Workhouse, 1876–1881: a study based on the admission and discharge registers and the census enumerators' books.
John Virgoe, Causes of death in a rural south-west Lancashire community in the late eighteenth century.
Enid Hunt, Household size and structure in Bassingham, Lincolnshire, 1851–1901
Simon Szreter and Edward Higgs, The General Register Office.
Regular features: editorial, review of periodical literature, correspondence.

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Local Population Studies Number 74 (Spring 2005)
Contents include:
D. Coetzee, Measures of enthusiasm: new avenues in quantifying variations in voluntary enlistment in Scotland, August 1914–December 1915.
Michael Drake, The Vaccination registers: what are they and what can we learn from them?.
T. McCunnie, Regulation and the health of child workers in the mid-Victorian silk industry.
Chris Galley, An exercise in Dade parish register demography: St. Olave, York, 1771–1785.
Richard Wall and Matthew Woollard, Pre-1841 population census schedules and lists.
Regular features: editorial, conference report, news from universities, book reviews.

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Local Population Studies Number 73 (Autumn 2004)
Contents include:
Andrew Hinde, The use of ninteenth-century census data to investigate local migration.
Chris Galley, Social intervention and the decline of infant mortality: Birmingham and Sheffield, c.1870–1910.
Roger Bellingham, Dade parish registers.
Chris French and J. Warren, Medical officers of health and infant mortality: the case of Kingston-upon-Thames in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Kevin Schürer, The Victorian Panel Study.
Regular features: editorial, review of periodical literature, correspondence.
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Local Population Studies Number 72 (Spring 2004)
Contents include:
June Sheppard, The provenance of Brighton's railway workers.
Matthew Woollard, The classification of multiple occupations in the 1881 census of England and Wales.
Kevin Schürer, Surnames and the search for regions.
Nigel Goose, Farm service in southern England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Sally Brush, When were babies baptised? Some Welsh evidence
Regular features: editorial, news from universities, book reviews.

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Local Population Studies Number 71 (Autumn 2003)
Contents include:
M. H. Long, A study of occupations in Yorkshire parish registers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Graham Twigg, The Black Death: a problem of population-wide infection.
Eilidh Garrett and Ros Davis, Birth spacing and infant mortality on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in the the 1880s: a comparison with the town of Ipswich, England.
Nigel Goose and O. Davies, Magic, custom and local culture in Hertfordshire, 1823–1914: an exercise in nominal record linkage.
A. Wright, Birth-baptism intervals in Whickham parish, Co. Durham, c.1770–1820.
Regular features: editorial, review of periodical literature.

To order a copy for £4.50 contact: lps@herts.ac.uk

Last updated 12 June 2010