E A Wrigley
Biographic Data
| ID | 266386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E A Wrigley |
| GIVEN NAMES | E A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrigley |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGLEY E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 441 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 97 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus Vol 5
Principles of political economy
considered with a view to their practical application
Malthus and the Poor Law
Malthus was severely critical of the old poor law, especially when the payments paid to recipients were made in conformity to the principles adopted by the local magistrates in Speenhamland in 1795. He considered that it encouraged early and improvident marriage with unfortunate consequences. There have been a number of attempts to determine whether Malthus was justified in supposing that the old poor law had this effect, some concluding that he …
Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929–2014 , 2nd edition (Cambridge: Polity, 2015). Pages 160. £15.99 paperback. PeterBurke, The French Historical Revolution: The Anna…
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Urban Growth in Early Modern England: Food, Fuel and Transport
Journal Article Urban Growth in Early Modern England: Food, Fuel and Transport Get access E. A. Wrigley E. A. Wrigley Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 225, Issue 1, November 2014, Pages 79–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtu032 Published: 18 September 2014
Rickman revisited: The population growth rates of English counties in the early modern period1
In the 1830s, Rickman, who had supervised the taking of the first four censuses, secured additional returns of baptisms, burials, and marriages from all Anglican incumbents whose registers began early. He made use of the returns to produce new estimates of the population of each county from the sixteenth century onwards. His estimates were published in the 1841 census after his death and have been very widely quoted ever since. This article prese…
English county populations in the later eighteenth century1
When directing the first English census John Rickman was intent not only on discovering the size of the population in 1801 but also on tracing past trends both nationally and for individual counties. He returned to the latter investigation on several later occasions, notably in the 1830s. There have been many subsequent attempts to improve upon his national estimates, but his estimates of county totals have continued to be used extensively, eithe…
The transition to an advanced organic economy: Half a millennium of English agriculture1
All organic economies were subject to constraints upon growth for reasons familiar to the classical economists, but their relative success in coping with these constraints differed substantially. This is visible both when comparing different areas at the same point in time and when comparing the circumstances of a given economy at different points in time. In this article the state of the English economy in 1300 is compared with its state in 1800…
Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France
1University of Cambridge Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France Andrea A. Rusnock Cambridge Cambridge U.P. 2002 xvi + 249 £ 45
The information state in England
The Divergence of England: The Growth of the English Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
THAT something remarkable was happening in England in the quarter millennium separating the late sixteenth century from the early nineteenth is plain. In Elizabeth I's reign the Spanish Armada was perceived as a grave threat: the English ships were scarcely a match for the Spanish, and the weather played a major part in the deliverance of the nation. By the later eighteenth century the Royal Navy was unchallenged by the naval forces of any other …
Corn and Crisis: Malthus on the High Price of Provisions
In 1799 Malthus spent six months in Scandinavia. There he witnessed the extreme deprivation, misery, and mortality that were once the common accompaniments of a bad harvest. On his return to England he found that the topic of the day was the exceptionally high price of bread, which threatened both political turmoil and human suffering. In the event, suffering even among the very poor was far less than in Sweden, though the increase in the price o…
Small-Scale but Not Parochial: The Work of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Population history has blossomed over the last thirty years, not least due to the work of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Professor Wrigley discusses its origins and its concerns — focusing in particular on the age at marriage and family structure, on their role in the Industrial Revolution and on the major part played by hundreds of volunteers in providing the group with data. He notes the importance of mi…
Explaining the rise in marital fertility in England in the 'long' eighteenth century
How Reliable Is Our Knowledge of the Demographic Characteristics of the English Population in the Early Modern Period
Anglican parish registers have been the basis for most studies of population trends and characteristics in early modern England, and one of the most important of the techniques used in analysing them has been family reconstitution. But Anglican registers at all times were an incomplete and inaccurate record of vital events, and their defects tended to become more pronounced in the later part of the period during which they afford the chief source…
Making Sense of Ireland's Economic Past
The Effect of Migration on the Estimation of Marriage Age in Family Reconstitution Studies
Ruggles has shown that, if marriage and migration are independent phenomena, age at marriage estimates derived from family reconstitution studies can be misleading because those who marry late are more likely to have migrated before marriage than those who marry early. Marriage age estimates based on 'stayers' will therefore be lower than would be the case if 'leavers' were also included. Whether this was true of English reconstitution data, howe…
The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective
Editors Introduction: The New Economic History and the Industrial Revolution Joel Mokyr. * The Fable of the Dead Horse or, The Industrial Revolution Revisited David S. Landes. * Reassessing the Industrial Revolution: A Macro View C. Knick Harley. * Too Much Revolution: Agriculture in the Industrial Revolution, 17001860 Gregory Clark. * The Role of Education and Skill in the British Industrial Revolution David Mitch
Reflections on the history of energy supply, living standards, and economic growth: The 1992 a.c. Davidson Lecture
Historic Demography and Economy
Wrigley E. A. Historic Demography and Economy. In: Annales de démographie historique, 1993. pp. 367-381
T. R. Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population. Volumes I and II; T. R. Malthus: Principles of Political Economy. Volumes I and II
Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief
This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors, from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of …
The Checkland Memorial Lecture 'The Great Commerce of Every Civilised Society': Urban Growth in Early Modern Europe
City and Country in the Past: A Sharp Divide or a Continuum
Journal Article City and Country in the Past: a Sharp Divide or a Continuum? Get access E. A. Wrigley E. A. Wrigley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 64, Issue 154, June 1991, Pages 107-120, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1991.tb01788.x Published: 12 October 2007
Population and Politics since 1750
A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy 1650-1750
A SIMPLE MODEL OF LONDON'S IMPORTANCE IN CHANGING ENGLISH SOCIETY AND ECONOMY 1650-1750 Get access E. A. Wrigley E. A. Wrigley Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 37, Issue 1, July 1967, Pages 44-70, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/37.1.44 Published: 01 July 1967
Family Limitation in Pre-Industrial England
Data on baptisms marriages and burials obtained from the parish registers of Colyton in east Devon England from 1538-1837 were used to identify fertility changes in the parish during that period. The Henry method of family reconstitution was applied to the data. The Colyton register was uninterrupted from 1538-1837 but the degree of detailed information contained in the records varied at different times. These differences were examined from a met…
Births and Baptisms: The Use of Anglican Baptism Registers as a Source of Information about the Numbers of Births in England before the Beginning of Civil Registration
E. A. Wrigley, Births and Baptisms: The Use of Anglican Baptism Registers as a Source of Information about the Numbers of Births in England before the Beginning of Civil Registration, Population Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Jul., 1977), pp. 281-312
People, Cities and Wealth. The Transformation of Traditional Society
The fall of marital fertility in nineteenth-century france: Exemplar or exception? (Part I)
An Introduction to English Historical Demography, From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
The Supply of Raw Materials in the Industrial Revolution
This chapter begins by defining the exchange of products manufactured in the towns for agricultural produce and raw materials as 'the great commerce of every civilized society'. The supply of mineral raw materials forms an interesting contrast with the supply of vegetable and animal raw materials. The cotton industry has attracted more attention than any other in discussions of the Industrial Revolution, and since it grew vastly while continuing …
The Growth of Population in Eighteenth-Century England: A Conundrum Resolved
THE GROWTH OF POPULATION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: A CONUNDRUM RESOLVED E.A. Wrigley E.A. Wrigley London School of Economics and S.S.R.C. Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 98, Issue 1, February 1983, Pages 121–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/98.1.121 Published: 01 February 1983
The transition to an advanced organic economy: Half a millennium of English agriculture1
All organic economies were subject to constraints upon growth for reasons familiar to the classical economists, but their relative success in coping with these constraints differed substantially. This is visible both when comparing different areas at the same point in time and when comparing the circumstances of a given economy at different points in time. In this article the state of the English economy in 1300 is compared with its state in 1800…
English county populations in the later eighteenth century1
When directing the first English census John Rickman was intent not only on discovering the size of the population in 1801 but also on tracing past trends both nationally and for individual counties. He returned to the latter investigation on several later occasions, notably in the 1830s. There have been many subsequent attempts to improve upon his national estimates, but his estimates of county totals have continued to be used extensively, eithe…
The Effect of Migration on the Estimation of Marriage Age in Family Reconstitution Studies
Ruggles has shown that, if marriage and migration are independent phenomena, age at marriage estimates derived from family reconstitution studies can be misleading because those who marry late are more likely to have migrated before marriage than those who marry early. Marriage age estimates based on 'stayers' will therefore be lower than would be the case if 'leavers' were also included. Whether this was true of English reconstitution data, howe…
English Population History from Family Reconstitution: Summary Results 1600-1799
A number of family reconstitution studies have been carried out in England in recent years under the aegis of the SSRC Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. For this article the data from 13 such reconstitutions were pooled to enable the chief fertility, mortality and nuptiality characteristics of the population to be calculated (there is reason to suppose that the pooled data reflect national trends fairly closely).…
An Introduction to English Historical Demography
Journal Article An Introduction to English Historical Demography Get access An Introduction to English Historical Demography. Edited by E. A. Wrigley. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. xii + 283. 42s.) E. Grebenik E. Grebenik University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 304, 1 December 1966, Pages 898–899, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229107 Published: 01…
Industrial Growth and Population Change: A Regional Study of the Coalfield Areas of North-West Europe in the Later Nineteenth Century
Preface Part I. Industrial Growth and Population Change: 1. The argument 2. The position in 1850 3. The coal resources of the Austrasian field 4. The development of coal production 5. Regional industrial growth and its relation to population changes Part II. Regional Demographic Patterns and Changes: 6. Mortality 7. Fertility Note on statistical sourcees Index Maps
Rickman revisited: The population growth rates of English counties in the early modern period1
In the 1830s, Rickman, who had supervised the taking of the first four censuses, secured additional returns of baptisms, burials, and marriages from all Anglican incumbents whose registers began early. He made use of the returns to produce new estimates of the population of each county from the sixteenth century onwards. His estimates were published in the 1841 census after his death and have been very widely quoted ever since. This article prese…
Explaining the rise in marital fertility in England in the 'long' eighteenth century
How Reliable Is Our Knowledge of the Demographic Characteristics of the English Population in the Early Modern Period
Anglican parish registers have been the basis for most studies of population trends and characteristics in early modern England, and one of the most important of the techniques used in analysing them has been family reconstitution. But Anglican registers at all times were an incomplete and inaccurate record of vital events, and their defects tended to become more pronounced in the later part of the period during which they afford the chief source…
The fall of marital fertility in nineteenth-century France: Exemplar or exception? (Part II)
The Prospects for Population History
Changes in the approach and scope of the study of population history over the past few decades are examined. The development of family reconstitution and aggregative back projection as techniques used in historical demography is described, and the impact of these techniques on the range of investigation of population history is considered. Changing awareness of the significance of the relationship between demographic change and the socioeconomic …
The Process of Modernization and the Industrial Revolution in England
E. A. Wrigley, The Process of Modernization and the Industrial Revolution in England, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 3, No. 2, Economics, Society, and History (Autumn, 1972), pp. 225-259
Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England
Marital Fertility in Seventeenth-Century Colyton: A Note
THE fertility history of seventeenth-century Colyton presents many surprises, some of which cause problems of interpretation. In his reappraisal of the data contained in my article of i 966, Morrow seeks to show that one least of the apparent problems can be laid to rest. There is, he argues, no evidence for family limitation in the later seventeenth century which survives examination by the technique recently developed by Coale and Trussell whic…
Corn and Crisis: Malthus on the High Price of Provisions
In 1799 Malthus spent six months in Scandinavia. There he witnessed the extreme deprivation, misery, and mortality that were once the common accompaniments of a bad harvest. On his return to England he found that the topic of the day was the exceptionally high price of bread, which threatened both political turmoil and human suffering. In the event, suffering even among the very poor was far less than in Sweden, though the increase in the price o…
Malthus on the Prospects for the Labouring Poor
In the penultimate chapter of St Matthew's gospel, immediately before the account of the betrayal by Judas, the story is told of a visit which Jesus paid to the house of Simon the leper. As he sat eating a woman came and poured a precious ointment over his head. The disciples were indignant, saying, in the words of King James's bible, ‘To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesu…
The Population History of England, 1541-1871. A Reconstruction
Industrial Growth and Population Change
Industrial Growth and Population Change: A Regional Study of the Coalfield Areas of North-West Europe in the Later Nineteenth Century
Preface Part I. Industrial Growth and Population Change: 1. The argument 2. The position in 1850 3. The coal resources of the Austrasian field 4. The development of coal production 5. Regional industrial growth and its relation to population changes Part II. Regional Demographic Patterns and Changes: 6. Mortality 7. Fertility Note on statistical sourcees Index Maps
The Supply of Raw Materials in the Industrial Revolution
This chapter begins by defining the exchange of products manufactured in the towns for agricultural produce and raw materials as 'the great commerce of every civilized society'. The supply of mineral raw materials forms an interesting contrast with the supply of vegetable and animal raw materials. The cotton industry has attracted more attention than any other in discussions of the Industrial Revolution, and since it grew vastly while continuing …
Industrial Growth and Population Change
Industrial Growth and Population Change
Sir Tony Wrigley's classic regional study of industrial development and demographic change in the Austrasian coalfield belt (stretching from Pas-De-Calais in the West to the Ruhr in the East) was first published in 1959. Its first part deals with the circumstances which encouraged more rapid industrial growth in some areas while inhibiting in others, and with the relationship between regional economic growth and the increase of industrial populat…
An Introduction to English Historical Demography
Journal Article An Introduction to English Historical Demography Get access An Introduction to English Historical Demography. Edited by E. A. Wrigley. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. xii + 283. 42s.) E. Grebenik E. Grebenik University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 304, 1 December 1966, Pages 898–899, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229107 Published: 01…
Problemes de mortalite. Actes du colloque international de demographie historique
Journal Article Problèmes de mortalité. Actes du colloque international de démographie historique Get access Problèmes de mortalité. Actes du colloque international de démographie historique. Edited by P. Harsin and E. Helin. (Liege: Université de Liége, 1965. Pp. 535.) E. A. Wrigley E. A. Wrigley Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 304, 1 December 1…
An Introduction to English Historical Demography, From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Family Limitation in Pre-Industrial England
Data on baptisms marriages and burials obtained from the parish registers of Colyton in east Devon England from 1538-1837 were used to identify fertility changes in the parish during that period. The Henry method of family reconstitution was applied to the data. The Colyton register was uninterrupted from 1538-1837 but the degree of detailed information contained in the records varied at different times. These differences were examined from a met…
Note sur le travail du groupe de Cambridge pour l'histoire de la population et des structures sociales
Wrigley E. A. Note sur le travail du groupe de Cambridge pour l'histoire de la population et des structures sociales. In: Annales de démographie historique, 1966. pp. 187-191
An Introduction to English Historical Demography
A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy 1650-1750
A SIMPLE MODEL OF LONDON'S IMPORTANCE IN CHANGING ENGLISH SOCIETY AND ECONOMY 1650-1750 Get access E. A. Wrigley E. A. Wrigley Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 37, Issue 1, July 1967, Pages 44-70, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/37.1.44 Published: 01 July 1967
Population Problems
Manuel de demographie historique. Hautes etudes medievales et modernes 3
Journal Article L. Henry. Manuel de démographie historique. Hautes études médiévales et modernes 3 Get access Manuel de dimographie historique. Hautes itudes midUvales et modernes 3. By L. Henry. (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1967. Pp. xi + 146.) E. A. Wrigley E. A. Wrigley Peterhouse, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 79, Issue 313, 1 March 1969, Pages 171–173, https://doi…
Recent Research in European Historical Demography
National Index of Parish Registers
The Interrelation between Genetics and the Social Sciences
J. M. Thoday, G. A. Harrison, W. Brass, J. A. Fraser Roberts, D. V. Glass, J. Maynard Smith, J. E. Meade, E. A. Wrigley, The Interrelation between Genetics and the Social Sciences, Population Studies, Vol. 24, Toward a Population Policy for the United Kingdom: Supplement (May, 1970), pp. 49-54
Demography and Economics
In industrialized societies such as the U.K., demographic, social and economic characteristics and changes are closely interrelated, but the study of their interconnections is often strangely neglected. Demographic research and economic research are too often carried out in separate compartments: and the same is true of teaching in the two subjects. Economists work on many problems which have important demographic aspects, without a full apprecia…
Société et population
The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755
The Growth and Control of World Population
The Process of Modernization and the Industrial Revolution in England
E. A. Wrigley, The Process of Modernization and the Industrial Revolution in England, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 3, No. 2, Economics, Society, and History (Autumn, 1972), pp. 225-259
Population and Social Change
Journal Article Population and Social Change Get access Population and Social Change. Edited by D. V. Glass and Roger Revelle. •v (London: Edward Arnold, 1972. Pp. viii + 520. £7.50.)Nineteenth-Century Society. Edited by E. A. Wrigley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. vii + 448. £8.00.) M. W. Flinn M. W. Flinn University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Vo…
The Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
Population et Histoire
Sociology (59 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (49 works) · History (46 works) · Demography (41 works) · Population (40 works) · Geography (39 works) · Political science (35 works) · Economics (30 works) · History (19 works) · Law (18 works)