On this page you can find details of the project’s various outputs, ranging from academic publications to press releases and public lectures:
Further Funding:
- In March 2019 Jane was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project ‘Forms of Labour: Gender, Freedom and Work in the Preindustrial Economy’. This will start in September 2019 and run for five years. It has three strands, one of which involves expanding the ‘Women’s Work in Rural England 1500-1700’ database from 4300 to 15000 work activities, and increasing its geographical scope to other regions of England. So watch this space!
Publications:
- ‘The Gender Division of Labour in Early Modern England‘, Economic History Review (forthcoming) [Jane & Mark]
- ‘Time and Work in Rural England, 1500-1700’, Past and Present (forthcoming) [Mark]
- ‘A Critique of Approaches to ‘Domestic Work’: Women, Work and the Preindustrial Economy‘, Past and Present, 243:1 (2019), 35-70 [Jane]
- ‘Research in Progress Essay: Women’s Work in Rural England 1500-1700 – A New Methodological Approach’, Local Population Studies, 96 (Spring 2016) [Mark & Jane]
- Digital Edition: Court Depositions of South West England, 1500-1700, Charmian Mansell and Mark Hailwood, (eds), University of Exeter.
Talks and Presentations:
- Public Lecture, Alveston History Society, South Gloucestershire, 24 October 2018
‘The Daily Life of Tudor and Stuart Women’ [Mark] - Authority, Gender and Social Relations: Durham Early Modern Studies Conference, Durham University, 25 July 2018
Panel on ‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700’ [Jane, Mark & Imogene]
‘Gender and commerce in rural England, 1500-1700’ [Jane]
‘Time and work-discipline in early modern England’ [Mark]
‘Young people and the labour laws in early modern England’ [Charmian] - Invisible Hands: Reassessing the History of Work Conference, University of Glasgow, 16-18 May 2018
Panel on ‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700: The Results’ [Jane, Mark & Imogene] - European Social Science History Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 4-7 April 2018
‘The gender division of labour in rural England, 1500-1700: new evidence from court depositions’ [Mark]
‘Women’s wages in the early modern south-west of England’ [Imogene]
‘Gendered Patterns of Servant Migration in the Church Court Depositions of Early Modern England’ [Charmian] - British Agricultural History Society, Cannington Centre, Somerset, 28 March 2018
Panel on ‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700: The Results’ [Jane and Mark] - Public Lecture, Yate Heritage Centre, South Gloucestershire, 6 March 2018
‘Tudor and Stuart Women’ [Mark] - Core Seminar in Economic and Social History, University of Cambridge, 2 November 2017
‘The gender division of labour in early modern England: new approaches, new findings’ [Jane] - European Network for the Comparative History of Population Geography and Occupational Structure Conference, University of Cambridge, 25-27 September 2017
‘The relationship between occupations and tasks: a perspective from the Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700, project’ [Jane] - Public Lecture, UWE Regional History Centre, M Shed, Bristol, 16 November 2017
‘What did women do all day in the Tudor and Stuart South West?’ [Mark] - The CEMS Postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter, 15-16 June 2017
‘Early Modern England’s Working Women’ [Imogene] - Public Lecture, Devon History Society, Exeter, 5 June 2017
‘Women’s Work in Devon, 1500-1700’ [Mark] - Habitual Behaviour in Early Modern Europe Conference, University of Sheffield, 1-2 June 2017
‘The Working Day in Early Modern England’ [Mark] - Social History Society Annual Conference, UCL, 4-6 April 2017
‘Time and Work-Discipline in Pre-Industrial England’ [Mark]
‘Was There a “Gender Pay Gap” in Early Modern England? Evidence from Household Account Books’ [Imogene] - Economic History Society Annual Conference, Royal Holloway, 31 March-2 April 2017
‘The relationship between occupations and tasks: a perspective from the Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700, project’ [Jane & Mark] - History Department Research Seminar, University of Kent, 9 March 2017
‘Women’s work in rural England 1500-1700: a new methodological approach’ [Jane] - Public Lecture, Totnes Elizabethan House Museum, Totnes, Devon, 9 March 2017
‘What did women do all day in Tudor and Stuart England?’ [Mark] - Ex Historia Postgraduate Symposium, University of Exeter, 19 January 2017
‘The Household Accounts of Dame Philippa Gore: A Case Study Exploring Women’s Wages in Seventeenth-century Somerset’ [Imogene] - Public Lecture, Axminster Historical Society, Axminster, Devon, 7 December 2016
‘What did women do all day in Tudor and Stuart England?’ [Mark] - The Walronds Public Lecture Series, Cullompton, Devon, 23 November 2016
‘Women, Work and Wages in the Early Modern South-West’ [Imogene] - Torquay Museum Society Public Lecture Series, Torquay, Devon, 22 November 2016
‘What did women do all day in Tudor and Stuart England?’ [Mark] - History Department Research Seminar, University of Durham, 9 November 2016
‘Women’s work in rural England 1500-1700: a new methodological approach’ [Jane] - International Symposium on The Organisation and Measurement of Time in the European Countryside, from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century, University of Lausanne and Les Arsenaux, Sion, Switzerland, 20-21 October 2016
‘Time and Work in Rural England, 1500-1700’ [Mark] - Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Bruges, Belgium, 18 August 2016
‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700: A New Methodology’ [Mark] - The Walronds Public Lecture Series, Cullompton, Devon, 8 June 2016
‘Women’s Work in Tudor and Stuart England’ [Mark] - Centre for Early Modern Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter, 26 May 2016
‘Fate and Chance in the Survival of Early Modern Household Accounts’ [Imogene] - Public Lecture, Teign Valley History Society, Christow, Devon, 10 May 2016
‘What did women do all day?’ [Jane] - AHRC Network Conference: Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800, University of Plymouth, 7-9 April 2016
‘Of Domesticall Duties, or, Rethinking the Spatial Division of Labour in Early Modern England’ [Mark] - Economic History Society Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 3 April 2016
‘Women’s work in rural England, 1500-1700: an approach based on incidental evidence in court records’ [Mark] - European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2 April 2016
Jane convened a panel on ‘Women’s work in rural north-west Europe, 1400-1800’ and presented a paper on: ‘Using incidental evidence from court depositions to document women’s unpaid work in rural England, 1500-1700’ - Women’s History Association of Ireland Annual Conference, at Queen’s University Belfast, 11 March 2016
Keynote Lecture: ‘So what is work exactly? Examining women’s and men’s work activities in a rural, preindustrial economy’ [Jane] - Public Lecture, The Sampford Peverell Society, Sampford Peverell, Devon, 11 March 2016
‘What did women do all day in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?’ [Mark] - Leverhulme International Network (Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe) Workshop, Churchill College, Cambridge, 18-19 April 2016
‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700: Our Conceptual Approach’ [Mark and Jane] - Centre for Gender History Research Seminar, University of Glasgow, 8 February 2016
‘What is “work”? A perspective from studying rural women in early modern England’ [Jane] - Gender, Women and Culture Seminar Series, University of Oxford, 26 January 2016
‘What is “work”? A perspective from studying rural women in early modern England’ [Jane] - British Agricultural History Society Winter Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, 5 December 2015
‘So what is work exactly? Examining women’s and men’s work activities in early modern rural England’ [Jane] - Public Lecture, Exmouth Family History Club, Exmouth, Devon, 26 November 2015
‘What did women do all day in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?’ [Mark] - European Rural History Organisation Conference, University of Girona, Spain, 9 September 2015
‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700: A New Methodological Approach’ [Mark]
Other Items and Activities:
- In May 2019 Jane wrote a blog past for Past and Present, ‘On Rethinking Approaches to Unpaid Work‘, summarising the key arguments of her recent article in that journal.
- In February 2019 Jane and Mark wrote a blog post on ‘The Gender Division of Labour in Early Modern England: Why Study Women’s Work?‘, for the Economic History Society’s ‘The Long Run’ blog. It highlighted ten of the ‘myth busting’ results from the project.
- In August 2017 Imogene wrote a guest blog post on ‘The Gender Pay Gap: An (Early) Modern Reality‘ for the Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe collaborative blog.
- On 8-9 September 2016 Jane, Mark and Imogene took part in a Knowledge Exchange Workshop at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex, funded by the project, on the theme of ‘Food, Cooking and Food Processing in Rural Households, 1500-1700’. For more details on the event see this blog post.
- On 2 March 2016 Mark appeared on BBC Radio Cornwall to discuss the project. You can listen to the interview here.
- On 27 February 2016 Jane wrote an article for the Western Morning News, a newspaper that covers Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. A version of which can be viewed online here.
- In July 2016 Mark wrote a guest blog post on ‘Women’s Work in Rural England, 1500-1700’ for the Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe collaborative blog, providing an overview of the aims and methodology of the project.
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