This book is about modern politics and young people. Judith Bessant revises some long-
standing myths about children and young people's politics. She highlights the huge gap …

Este artículo se propone calibrar el comportamiento de los gremios artesanos de Madrid a
la luz de las últimas investigaciones continentales. En una primera parte se desmontan …

We examine the role of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into premodern
London's skilled occupations. Newly digitized apprenticeship indenture records for 1600 …

Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human
capital formation in pre-industrial England. This paper demonstrates how training premiums …

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of
material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers …

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new
approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these …

The 1650s saw an influx of young women to skilled apprenticeships in London's companies.
Apprenticed to women through the names of their husbands, they practiced seamstry and …

Drawing on the work of recent revisionist historians, the book scrutinises traditional
historiographical views of early modern childhood, challenging the idea that the concept of …

London's dramatic growth from a marginal northern European city to a global metropolis was
one of the distinctive transitions in early modern history. The city's expansion was …

How children should be educated was, and remains, a perennial problem at all levels of
society. Education is one of the key devices by which social groups reproduce themselves …