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AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE POPULATION HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 1541-1871: A RENSTRUCTION ROGER SCHOFIELD HISTORY, MPUTING burials in 1538. There indeed a snag to all this. The untry vered by an array of parishes, about 10,000 in all, and here is the point at which Wrigley revealed why he giving the talk on the radio. It because he wanted to recruit an army of people to work on one or two parishes each, adding up the baptisms, marriages and burials as they went along. And from this activity he evidently hoped that the population history of England would one day be written.1 It happened that only four months later Peter Laslett and Tony Wrigley advertised for a 'research assistant' to the newly-founded Cambridge Group for the History and Population and Social Structure. Candidates were supposed to have 'qualifications and experience of research in one, or other, of the following fields: Demography or Historical Demography, Enomic and Social History, Sociology or Social Statistics, Geography or Social Anthropology'. Quite a wide field, but one that scarcely relevant to me. I didn't me under any of the wide range of 'disciplines' sought for. My doctoral dissertation on the levying of direct
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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