Literacy and occupational mobility in rural versus urban victorian england: Evidence from the linked marriage register and census records for birmingham and norfolk, 1851 and 1881

Historical Methods

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-38

  Mitch, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

England; Marriage registers; Social mobility; Victorian era

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LITERACY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; OCCUPATION;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

VICTORIA;

EID: 17544377671     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/HMTS.38.1.26-38     Document Type: Article

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