Women In England 1500-1760

Anne Laurence studied history at the Universities of York and Oxford. She has worked at the Open University since 1976, where she is a Senior Lecturer in History. She has recently completed work on an Open University course on France and the British Isles in the seventeenth century, with a television series on the use of buildings for social history.

Here is a fascinating social history of women and their lives between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. Anne Laurence covers marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside the home, education, religion and women's activity in the community and the wider world