Migration and Society in Early Modern England

by Peter Clark

Contents: Introduction, Peter Clark and David Souden; Vagrants and vagrancy in England, 1598-1664, Paul A. Slack; Patterns of migration and movement of labour to three pre-industrial East Anglian towns, John Patten; Neighbourhood migration in early modern London, Jeremy Boulton; 'Rogues, whores and vagabonds'?; Indentured servant emigration to North America and the case of mid seventeenth-century Bristol, David Souden; Moving on in the New World: migration and out-migration in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake, J.P. Horn; Migration in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Peter Clark; Age-specific mobility in an eighteenth-century rural English parish, R.S. Schofield; Migrants in the city: the process of social adaptation in English towns, 1500-1800, Peter Clark; 'East, westohome's best'? Regional patterns in migration in early modern England, David Souden; Bibliography; Index

355 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 1988

About the author

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Peter Clark is Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki. Educated at Oxford, he was previously professor at the University of Leicester, where he was Director of the Centre for Urban History. In 1989 he helped found the European Association for Urban History.

He has published or edited over 20 books on urban, social, cultural and environmental history. In 2010 he received an honorary degree from Stockholm University.

Reviews

[Farah Mendlesohn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A slog but well worth it. Articles slicing different primary material in different ways to look at who migrated, how far, where too, and what happened if you fell through the net.

One thing the book under cuts is the idea that people didn't move around. The poor did all the time.