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Emily Rhodes
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PhD student in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
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The article itself is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Women as child carers: Arranging and compensating mothering in early modern Lancashire
This article uses a database of fifty petitions submitted to the Lancashire Quarter Session Courts between 1660 and 1720 to locate mothers who cared for non-kin children in early modern England. Wh...
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Emily Rhodes
@erhodes.bsky.social
PhD student in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
244 followers307 following12 posts