Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600–2012

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Bridewell, bawdy courts and bastardy in early seventeenth-century London

Chapter 3 Cohabitation in context in early seventeenth-century London

Chapter 4 ‘All he wanted was to kill her that he might marry the Girl’: Broken marriages and cohabitation in the long eighteenth century

Chapter 5 ‘They lived together as man and wife’: Plebeian cohabitation, illegitimacy, and broken relationships in London, 1700–1840

Chapter 6 Bastardy and divorce trials, 1780–1809

Chapter 7 Cohabiting couples in the nineteenth-century coronial records of the Midlands Circuit

Chapter 8 The kindness of strangers revisited: Fostering, adoption and illegitimacy in England, 1860–1930

Chapter 9 The context of illegitimacy from the 1920s to the 1960s

Chapter 10 Cohabitation and births outside marriage after 1970: A rapidly evolving phenomenon

Chapter 11 Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s