Local Population Studies & The Local Population Studies Society
Annual Conference: Saturday 12th April 2003, The Law Faculty, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield Road, St Albans

Children and Childhood in Industrial England

Sponsored by The Centre for Regional and Local History, University of Hertfordshire and LPS.

9.30-10.30 Registration and coffee.

10.30-11.30 How many children were "unemployed" in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain? - Peter Kirby

11.30-1.00 Focus on London
Children in London's rural hinterland, 1740-1870 - Mary Clare Martin
Poor children in late-nineteenth century London - Anna Davin

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-3.00 Parish paternalism and capitalist exploitation: apprenticeship in eighteenth-century Lancashire - Andy Gritt

3.00- 4.30 Focus on the Provinces
Child employment prospects in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire in perspective: varieties of childhood? - Nigel Goose
Child employment: was it really such a bad thing? Stoke and Warrington in the nineteenth century - David Gatley
Death in childhood: mortality in the regions of England and Wales 1860-1910 - Eilidh Garrett

4.30-5.00 Tea

5.00 Conference closes.

The conference fee is £25, inclusive of all refreshments.

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