Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600-2012

Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University, UKÉva Beaujouan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, AustriaEleanor Fox, Independent Scholar, UKGinger Frost, Samford University, USJohn Haskey, University of Oxford, UKElizabeth Hurren, University of Leicester, UKMartin Ingram, University of Oxford, UKSteve King, University of Leicester, UKMáire Ní Bhrolcháin, University of Southampton, UKJulie Shaffer, University of Wisconsin, USRebecca Probert, University of Warwick, UKSamantha Williams, University of Cambridge, UK

• Introduction; Rebecca Probert 1. Bridewell, Bawdy Courts and Bastardy in Early Seventeenth-Century London; Eleanor Fox and Martin Ingram 2. Cohabitation in Context in Early Seventeenth-Century London; Martin Ingram 3. 'All He Wanted Was To Kill Her That He Might Marry The Girl': Broken Marriages and Cohabitation in the Long Eighteenth Century; Joanne Bailey 4. 'They Lived Together As Man And Wife': Plebeian Cohabitation, Illegitimacy, and Broken Relationships in London, 1700-1840; Samantha Williams 5. Bastardy and Divorce Trials, 1780-1809; Julie Shaffer 6. Cohabiting Couples in the 19th Century Coronial Records of the Midlands Circuit; Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King 7. The Kindness of Strangers Revisited: Fostering, Adoption and Illegitimacy in England, 1860-1930; Ginger Frost 8. The Context of Illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s; Rebecca Probert 9. Cohabitation and Births Outside Marriage after 1970: A Rapidly Evolving Phenomenon; John Haskey 10. Cohabitation and Marriage in Britain Since the 1970s; Éva Beaujouan And Máire Ní Bhrolcháin