Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century

Gudrun Andersson is Associate Professor of History at Uppsala University. Her research interests include early modern gender history, cultural history, and material culture. She has published extensively on early modern elite status and consumption, e.g. Stadens dignitärer. Den lokala elitens status- och maktmaifestation i Arboga 1650–1770 (2009).Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research centres on retailing and consumption in the long eighteenth century. Recent publications include Consumption and the Country House (2016), the Routledge Companion to the History of Retailing (2019) and Comforts of Home in Western Europe (2020).

• 0. Introduction: daily lives and daily routines in the (very) long eighteenth century Part I: Domestic Routines 1. Lifestyles and lifespans: domestic material culture and the temporalities of daily life in seventeenth-century England 2. ‘A Little Paradise’: The Urban and Rural Homes of a Manchester Manufacturer 3. Life-stage, work and daily routines of the eighteenth-century Swedish elite: Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna’s diaries 4. The rhythms and routines of the English country house garden Part II: Public Space 5. From microhistory to patterns of urban mobility. The rhythm of gendered mobility in eighteenth- century Amsterdam 6. Space, sociability and daily life in early nineteenth-century Finnish polite societyTopi Artukka 7. Kaleidoscopic spaces: slices of daily life in nineteenth-century Edo Part III: Home and Away 8. Around and about: the daily routines of a councilman in early nineteenth-century Sweden 9. Daily lives dislocated? Routine and revolution in Britain’s North American colonies 10. Everyday life on the high seas: routines, restrictions and recreation on East Indiamen 11. Conclusion