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The imposition in 1695 of a new tax on births, marriages and
deaths, in support of England's contribution to the Nine Years'
War, led to the creation of a full register of the population of
London (as of other counties). The surviving records offer an
unequalled level of information on social, family and household
structures. In particular, they enumerate entire households by name
and status, including children, servants and lodgers. This volume
provides an index ro the surviving manuscript assessments for
London's thirteen extramural parishes, and complements David
Glass's index of inhabitants within the walls, published by the
London Record Society in 1966.
This is the first comparative and comprehensive account of
occupational training before the Industrial Revolution.
Apprenticeship was a critical part of human capital formation, and,
because of this, it has a central role to play in understanding
economic growth in the past. At the same time, it was a key stage
in the lives of many people, whose access to skills and experience
of learning were shaped by the guilds that trained them. The local
and national studies contained in this volume bring together the
latest research into how skills training worked across Europe in an
era before the emergence of national school systems. These essays,
written to a common agenda and drawing on major new datasets,
systematically outline the features of what amounted to a
European-wide system of skills education, and provide essential
insights into a key institution of economic and social history.
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