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This essay discusses archives and record collections built by English Catholics in the early decades of the eighteenth century which sought to build accounts of English Catholics during the Tudor dynasty of the in the 16th century, including English martyrs, 16th century English diaspora, and the Benedictines. The author considers how the process of choosing and structuring historical materials for such collections created meaning.

The article discusses food supply and nutrition in England during the 18th and 19th centuries. Particular focus is given to the relationship between population growth and caloric intake and chronic malnutrition among England's poor. Details on stature during this period are also presented. Topics discussed include historical methods of energy cost accounting, domestic food products, economist Thomas Malthus, and the importation of food.

The article compares eighteenth century poor relief and settlement regulations in England and Wales with relief and regulations in the Southern Low Countries, or modern-day Belgium. It notes how settlement policies determined communities' responsibilities for individual paupers. The authors comment on the relationship between central legislation, local conditions, and inter-parish bargaining. Other topics include migrations of the poor, relief policies toward migrants, and the issue of local autonomy versus integration.

The article discusses the relationship between courtship and marriage practices and population growth in England during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Particular focus is given to evidence drawn from working-class autobiographies. According to the author, the decline of parental control in marriage decisions, rather than improved economic conditions, was responsible for increased marriage rates among young people who may not have been deemed financially secure enough to begin a family. It is suggested that changing employment structures also factored into marriage rates and population growth.

Argues that imports of goods from the East made a difference to the subsequent development of European, but especially British, consumer markets and production technologies in the 18th century. Europeans' response to Asian luxuries by learning from their imports, developing knowledge of markets and adapting processes; Connection between global luxury, European consumerism and industrialization in the 18th century.

Analyzes two sub-groups of women workers who passed as men in eighteenth-century Britain against the general background of expectations surrounding gender and plebeian life. Female husbands who were women who dressed as men in order to marry other women; Women warriors who were women who dressed as men in order to go to war; Cross-dressing and plebeian life; Sexual disorder and the passing woman; From tribade to feme-baron.

Looks at the status of the so-called 'middle sort of people in the society of 17th and 18th-century England. Core groups of parochial rulers; Evolutionary process of the social characterizations of 'sorts of people'; Context-driven nature of early modern social terminology; Complexities of 'middling' identity; Investigation of the nature and determinants of the status.