Local Population Studies

The journal Local Population Studies (LPS) was first published as a newsletter and magazine in 1968, and later became a formal historical journal. Since then it has been published twice a year, and is unique in its focus on population and society in a local and a community context. Alas, because of the closure of the Local Population Studies Society, issue 115 (autumn 2025) will be the last issue.

Accessing Local Population Studies online

You can now access issues of Local Population Studies (LPS) published since 2011 through the pages on this site. If you encounter any problems, please contact web@localpopulationstudies.org.uk.

The links below can be used to gain access to specific issues.

Older issues of Local Population Studies

The Local Population Studies Society has also made older issues of Local Population Studies freely available. These are stored on our older webpages (these pages look a bit out of date, but still function). If you have any problems with the pages, or would like a copy of a specific article, please contact editor@localpopulationstudies.org.uk.

Contents of recent issues (2023-2025)

Local Population Studies 115 (autumn 2025)

  • Andrew Hinde, Local Population Studies Society autumn conference 2025: Migration and mobility in history
  • Matthew Kilner, The spread of the Great Plague of 1603-1604 to Bristol and its rural hinterland
  • Ali Erginsoy, Neonatal and infant mortality in the late eighteenth century Sephardi community in London
  • Christine Jones, The membership books of the New Room 1770-1788: a local nonconformist population
  • Phil Batman and Jack Southern, Chain migration from the lead mines of Yorkshire to the coal mines and cotton mills of Lancashire
  • Kim Baldacchino, Population change and migration in a west Devon parish, 1841-1939
  • Sue Jones, More or less: a comparison of early modern parish population estimates from different sources
  • Miscellany: Probate inventories and accounts for Worcester
  • Book review
  • Review of recent periodical literature    

Local Population Studies 114 (spring 2025)

  • Leigh Shaw-Taylor, The occupational structure of Britain, c.1379-1911: an overview of findings and where to find them
  • Dave Fogg Postles, New lives? Flows of people in and out of Loughborough in the middle of the nineteenth century
  • Lynn Mathieson, Infant mortality and inequalities in health care provision in South Wales mining communities, 1900 to 1914
  • Peter Jolly, Parish and longing? Emotional attachment and the formation of new ecclesiastical parishes
  • Leigh Shaw-Taylor, The population of England and Wales, 1541-1796
  • Chris Galley and Eilidh Garrett, Linking infants to the census: Kilmarnock 1871
  • Book reviews

Local Population Studies 113 (autumn 2024)

  • Andrew Hinde, Local Population Studies Society autumn conference 2024: new research in local population history
  • Ian Webster, Internal migration and a Derbyshire lead mining village, 1841-1921
  • Bill Askew, Differentials in smallpox vaccination rates in Northamptonshire in the late nineteenth century
  • Harry Smith and Emily Vine, The material culture of wills: England, 1541-1790
  • Miscellany: Other ‘Others’, The Charterhouse, Proprietary chapels
  • Review of recent periodical literature

Local Population Studies 112 (spring 2024)

  • Andrew Hinde, Local Population Studies Society spring conference 2024
  • Romola Davenport and Max Satchell, Malaria, migration and merry widowers in the Essex marshes 1690-1730
  • Peter Jolly, Unregarded but ubiquitous: a demographic study of rural charwomen, household structure, and familial relationships
  • Philip Thornborow, Total surrender? The survival of Methodist Registers from before 1837 in England and Wales
  • Book reviews

Local Population Studies 111 (autumn 2023)

  • Andrew Hinde, Local Population Studies Society autumn seminar 2023
  • Mike Kipling, Sussex debt and trade suits at the Court of Requests
  • Peter Jolly, Dimensions of distance: methodological reflections on using the census in migration studies
  • Colin G. Pooley, Different perspectives on an individual’s life: the benefits of comparing sources
  • Rosemary Leadbeater, ‘Assisted by grief for her recent loss’: caring for the sick poor in south-east Oxfordshire
  • Louis Henderson, Moritz Kaiser and Ryah Thomas, Childhood and community adversity: the New Hartley Colliery disaster 1862
  • News from the 404PLUS project
  • Review of recent periodical literature

Local Population Studies 110 (spring 2023)

  • Paul Tomblin and Rowena Burgess, Conference report: nonconformist local population history
  • F.E. Terry-Chandler, Neat-handed women? The gendered construction of skill in the Birmingham hardware trades, 1780-1870
  • Mike Kipling, Sussex debt suits at the Elizabethan Court of Common Pleas
  • Helen Bates and Stephen Walker, Investigating the Darley Abbey grave slabs
  • Sue Jones, with Peter Franklin and Gillian Chiverton, Reflections on the Local Population Studies Society Newsletter, 1988-2023
  • Book reviews