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dc.contributor.authorCrymble, Adam
dc.contributor.authorDennett, Adam
dc.contributor.authorHitchcock, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-31T12:22:24Z
dc.date.available2018-07-31T12:22:24Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-01
dc.identifier.citationCrymble , A , Dennett , A & Hitchcock , T 2018 , ' Modelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration to late eighteenth-century London ' , Economic History Review , vol. 71 , no. 3 , pp. 747-771 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12569
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/20290
dc.descriptionThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Adam Crymble, Adam Dennett, and Tim Hitchock, 'Modelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration to late eighteenth-century London', The Economic History Review, doi:10.1111/ehr.12569, first published 27 July 2017. Under embargo. Embargo end date: 22 July 2019. This article may be used for non-commercial purposed in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. © Economic History Society 2017.
dc.description.abstractUsing a substantial set of vagrancy removal records for Middlesex (1777–86) giving details of the place of origin of some 11,500 individuals, and analysing these records using a five-variable gravity model of migration, this article addresses a simple question: from which parts of England did London draw its lower-class migrants in the late eighteenth century? It concludes, first, that industrializing areas of the north emerged as a competitor for potential migrants—contributing relatively fewer migrants than predicted by the model. Rising wage rates in these areas appear to explain this phenomenon. Second, it argues that migration from urban centres in the west midlands and parts of the West Country, including Bristol, Birmingham, and Worcester, was substantially higher than predicted, and that this is largely explained by falling wage rates and the evolution of an increasingly efficient travel network. Third, for the counties within about 130 kilometres of the capital, this article suggests that migration followed the pattern described in the current literature, with London drawing large numbers of local women in particular. It also argues that these short-distance migrants came from a uniquely wide number of parishes, suggesting a direct rural-to-urban path.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEconomic History Review
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectinternal migration
dc.subjectgravity model
dc.subjecteighteenth century history
dc.subjectEngland
dc.subjectvagrancy
dc.subjectsettlement
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectGeography, Planning and Development
dc.titleModelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration to late eighteenth-century Londonen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Humanities
dc.contributor.institutionHistory
dc.contributor.institutionDigital History Research Centre
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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