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 80. 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 85 (Autumn 2010)

Contents include:
John Perkins, Birth-baptism intervals in 68 Lancashire parishes, 1646-1917
Jeremy Boulton and Leonard Schwarz, Yer another inquiry into the trustworthiness of eighteenth-century London's Bills of Mortality
Audrey Eccles, The eighteenth-century vagrant contractor
Amanada Wilkinson, The census enumeration of women working in the Courtauld silk mills, 1851-1901
Jonathan Healey, Andrew Hinde and Jon Stobart, Review of recent periodical literature
Regular features: editorial.

To order a copy for £10 contact: lps@herts.ac.uk

Contents of recent back issues of Local Population Studies (back to 2008):

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 £10 contact: lps@herts.ac.uk

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.

To order a copy for £10 contact: lps@herts.ac.uk

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 £10 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.

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

Last updated 21 November 2010