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Rickman revisited: the population growth rates of English counties in the early modern period1
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In the 1830s, Rickman, who had supervised the taking of the first four censuses, secured additional returns of baptisms, burials, and marriages from all Anglican incumbents whose registers began early. He made use of the returns to produce new estimates of the population of each county from the sixteenth century onwards. His estimates were published in the 1841 census after his death and have been very widely quoted ever since. This article presents new county estimates, taking advantage of the fact that it is now possible to avoid some of the logical difficulties that Rickman encountered because independent estimates of national population totals are now available.
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- Authors
- WRIGLEY, E. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- WRIGLEY, E. A.
- Venue
- The Economic History Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-07-07
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 711-735
- ISSN
- 0013-0117 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0289
- OpenAlex
- W2163025480
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Economic History Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Social Sciences › Demography › Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Keywords
- population growth rate, English counties, early modern period, parish registers, 1841 census, historical demography, population estimates
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