Helen Berry is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle. Her previous publications include Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England (2003) and, with Jeremy Gregory, Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 (2004). Elizabeth Foyster is Lecturer in History and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage (1999) and Marital Violence: An English Family History 1660-1857 (2005).

• Preface Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; Anthony Fletcher R. I. Moore; 1. Introduction Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; 2. Marriage, separation and the common law in England 1540–1640 Tim Stretton; 3. Republican reformation: family, community and the state in interregnum Middlesex, 1649–60 Bernard Capp; 4. Keeping it in the family: crime and the early modern household Garthine Walker; 5. Faces in the crowd: gender and age in the early modern English crowd John Walter; 6. 'Without the Cry of Any Neighbours': a Cumbrian family and the Poor Law authorities, c.1690–1730 Steve Hindle; 7. Childless men in early modern England Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; 8. Aristocratic women and the ideas of family in the early eighteenth century Ingrid Tague; 9. Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century England Joanne Bailey.

Review of the hardback: '… as a rounded treatment of some major themes and findings that point to where we now stand and what more might be gained, it is an important and illuminating collection, skillfully and thoughtfully implemented. It attests to the continued vigor of family cum gender history, and would benefit students and scholars working on family, gender, and the social history of Britain, the continent, or elsewhere.' Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, H-Net Reviews