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- Title
Rickman revisited: the population growth rates of English counties in the early modern period.
- Authors
WRIGLEY, E. A.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BRITISH history, 1485-; RICKMAN, John; POPULATION; CENSUS; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; BIRTH rate; HISTORY
- Publication
Economic History Review, 2009, Vol 62, Issue 3, p711
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00476.x