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A review of the article “The Return of Owners of Land and the transformations of the 1870s,” by D. Postles, which appeared in volume 84 of the periodical “Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society,” is presented.

A review of the article “Smoking and health in London's East End in the first half of the 19th century,” by D. Walker and M. Henderson, which appeared in volume 44 of the periodical “Post-Medieval Archaeology,” is presented.

A review of the article “Contrasting municipal responses to the provision of birth control services in Halifax and Exeter before 1948,” by P. Dale and K. Fisher, which appeared in volume 23 of the periodical “Social History of Medicine,” is presented.

A review of the article “Victorian and Edwardian almspeople: Doughty's Hospital, Norwich, 1837-1911,” by N. Goose, which appeared in volume 84 of the periodical “Local Population Studies,” is presented.

A review of the article “'Strike out boldly for the prizes that are available to you': medical emigration from Ireland 1860-1905,” by G. Jones, which appeared in volume 54 of the periodical “Medical History,” is presented.

A review is presented for the articles “Sewers, slums and standpipes: the battle against infectious disease in nineteenth-century Dorset," and "From poorhouse to workhouse? The erosion of publicly owned housing in rural Dorset after 1834,” by M. Ayres, which appeared in volume 131 of the periodical “Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society,” is presented.

A review of the article “Bequests to widows and their property in early modern England,” by R. Wall, which appeared in volume 15 of the periodical “History of the Family,” is presented.

A review of the article “Income, domestic economy and the distribution of poverty amongst labouring families in the parish of Cardington, Bedfordshire, in the 1780s and 1850s,” by G. Shepherd, which appeared in volume 13 of the periodical “Family and Community History,” is presented.

A review of the article “Demographic dimensions of the mid-Tudor crisis,” by J. S. Moore, which appeared in volume 41 of the periodical “Sixteenth Century Journal,” is presented.

A review of the articles “Seeking connections between kinship and the law in early modern England,” by L. Bonfield, "Early modern English kinship in the long run: reflections on continuity and change," by N. Tadmor, and "Economic collaboration of family members within and beyond households in English society, 1600-2000," by R. Wall, which appeared in volume 25 of the periodical “Continuity and Change,” is presented.

A review is presented for the articles “Parish apprenticeship and the Old Poor Law in London,” by A. Levene, from volume 63 of "Economic History Review," and "Poor families, removals and 'nurture' in late Old Poor Law London," by A. Levene, from volume 25 of "Continuity and Change."

A review of the article “The impact of the 1783 and 1785 Stamp Duty Acts on Scottish vital registration,” by S. Basten, which appeared in volume 30 of the periodical “Journal of Scottish Historical Studies,” is presented.

A review of the articles “Stuart London's standard of living: re-examining the Settlement of Tithes of 1638 for rents, income, and poverty,” by W. C. Baer, "The allocation of merchant capital in early Tudor London," by J. Oldland, both from volume 63 of the periodical “Economic History Review,” and "Property and a woman's place in Restoration London," by B. Todd, from volume 19 of "Women's History Review," is presented.

A review of the article “Urban population in late medieval England: the evidence of the lay subsidies,” by S. H. Rigby, which appeared in volume 63 of the periodical “Economic History Review,” is presented.

A review is presented for the articles “Gold, credit, and mortality: distinguishing deflationary pressures on the late medieval English economy,” in volume 63 of the periodical “Economic History Review,” and "The rise and decline of medieval York: a reassessment," in volume 206 of "Past and Present," both by P. Nightingale, is presented.

A review of the article “'All good rule of the cite': sanitation and civic government in England, 1400-1600,” by D. Jørgensen, which appeared in volume 36 of the periodical “Journal of Urban History,” is presented.

A review of the article “The English almshouse and the mixed economy of welfare: medieval to modern,” by N. Goose, which appeared in volume 40 of the periodical “Local Historian," is presented.

A review of the article “The politics of preference: masculinity, marital status and unemployment relief the post-First World War Britain,'” by M. Levine-Clark, which appeared in volume 7 of the periodical “Cultural and Social History,” is presented.

A review of the article “Fertility, decline and the heights of children in Britain, 1886-1938,” by T. J. Hatton and R. M. Martin, which appeared in volume 47 of the periodical “Explorations in Economic History,” is presented.

A review of the article “The railways, urbanization and local demography in England and Wales, 1825-1911,” by L. N. Gregory and J. M. Henneberg, which appeared in volume 34 of the periodical “Social Science History,” is presented.

A review of the article “Freethought, free love and feminism: secularist debates on marriage and sexual morality, England c. 1850-1885,” by L. Schwartz, which appeared in volume 19 of the periodical “Women's History Review,” is presented.

A review of the article “Millenarians in the Pennines, 1800-1830: building and believing Jerusalem,” by P. Lockley, which appeared in volume 47 of the periodical “Northern History,” is presented.

A review of the article “Lords and tenants in Kett's Rebellion 1549,” by J. Whittle, which appeared in volume 207 of the periodical “Past and Present,” is presented.

A review of the article “Love, religion and power in the making of marriages in early nineteenth-century rural industrial Lancashire,” by S. King, which appeared in volume 21 of the periodical “Rural History,” is presented.

A review of the article “The impact of urbanization on murder rates and on the geography of homicide in England and Wales, 1780-1850,” by P. King, which appeared in volume 52 of the periodical “Historical Journal,” is presented.

A review of the article “The politics of diffuse authority in an early modern small town,” by D. Postles, which appeared in volume 45 of the periodical “Canadian Journal of History,” is presented.

A review of the article “Working hand knitters in England from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries,” by L. O'Connell Edwards, which appeared in volume 41 of the periodical “Textile History,” is presented.

A review is presented for the articles “The development of poor relief in Lancashire, c. 1598-1680," by J. Healey, from volume 53 of "Historical Journal," and "Poverty in an industrializing town: deserving hardship in Bolton, 1674-99," by J. Healey, from volume 35 of "Social History."

A review of the article “The poor law of old England: institutional innovation and demographic regimes,” by M. Kelly and C. Ó Gráda, which appeared in volume 41 of the periodical “Journal of Interdisciplinary History,” is presented.

A review is presented for the articles “Apprenticeship migration to London from the north-east of England in the seventeenth century,” by J. F. Field, from volume 35 of "London Journal," and "Leaving home and entering service: the age of apprenticeship in early modern London," by P. Wallis, C. Webb, and C. Minns, from volume 25 of "Continuity and Change."

A review of the article “The schools and schoolmasters of Durham, 1100-1539,” by N. Orme, which appeared in volume 39 of the periodical “Archaeologia Aeliana,” is presented.

A review of the article “The functions and fortunes of English small towns at the close of the middle ages: evidence from John Leland's Itinerary,” by J. S. Lee, which appeared in volume 37 of the periodical “Urban History,” is presented.

A review is presented for the articles “An immigrant elite in the later Middle Ages: locating the De Parys family in North Wales and Chester,” by R. A. Griffiths, from volume 25 of "Welsh History Review," and "Assimilation in north-western England from the Norman Conquest to the early thirteenth century: the Kirkby, Pennington and Copeland families," by P. Latimer, from volume 47 of the periodical “Northern History,” is presented.

A review of the articles “Loving friends: surviving widowhood in late medieval Westminster,” by K. L. French, from volume 22 of the periodical "Gender and History," and "Defining themselves: English aristocratic women, 1450-1550," by B. J. Harris, from volume 49 of the periodical “Journal of British Studies,” is presented.

A review of the article “Alien communities and alien fraternities in later medieval London,” by J. Colson, which appeared in volume 35 of the periodical “London Journal,” is presented·