RESEARCH ARTICLES
Janna Everaert, Governing the gateway: interaction between mercantile and political elites in Golden Age Antwerp (c.1490–1560), p. 3–26
Hideaki Inui, Poor’s Lands Charity and the mixed economy of welfare under the New Poor Law: local relief practices in nineteenth-century England, p. 27–59
Martin Ingram, Lucy Morgan, Non-marital cohabitation in late seventeenth-century England: the case of John Ash and Mary Batt, p. 61–88
Nicholas C. Collins, Women’s work and the slow transition to the breadwinner–homemaker family in England, 1700–1850, p. 89–125

Reviews, p. 127–138

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Jenny Dyer, What happened when an apprentice or young ‘living-in’ household worker fell ill, c. 1690–1820?, p. 279–308
Phil Withington, Gabrielle Robilliard, Karin Sennefelt, Stephen Snelders, Plague and intoxicants in the Baltic and North Seas during the long seventeenth century, p. 309–338
Margreet Brandsma, Grist to the mill: negotiating seigneurial monopolies (southern Low Countries, c. 1150–1550), p. 339–364
Antonio Olivieri, Luciano Maffi, Local microcredit in fourteenth-century Italy: social networks and documentary practices in Vercelli, p. 365–390

Book reviews, p. 391-397

DEBT IN CONTEXT: KIN AND COMMERCE IN EUROPE FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURIES

INTRODUCTION
Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Debt in context: kin and commerce in Europe from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, p. 123-133

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Florian Andretsch, Between punishment and protection: a noble insolvency and its governmental management in mid-eighteenth-century Lower Austria, p. 134-167
Matteo Pompermaier, Borrowing in a pre-industrial city: financial behaviour and economic rationality in eighteenth-century Venice, p. 168-190
James E. Shaw, Family ties under strain: negotiating failure, 1836–1846, p. 191-211
Matthias Donabaum, Orphans, guardians, institutions and the market: credit in eighteenth-century Lower Austria, p. 212-237
Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Tracing credit and debt among rural entrepreneurs in early modern Tyrol: a widow agriculturalist and an innkeeper, p. 238-270

Book Review, p. 271-277

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Li Jiang, Life-cycle changes in the living standards of rural wage-earners, 1550–1650, p. 1-29
Hillary Taylor, The gendered dynamics of violence in English apprenticeship: apprentices’ petitions to the Middlesex and Westminster Sessions, c. 1690–1830, p. 31-55
Mark Hailwood, Jane Whittle, Jonas Lindström, Sofia Ling, Maria Ågren, Comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England, p. 57-85
Jakob Starlander, Fire disasters and institutional responses: the resilience and vulnerability of peasant forest communities in seventeenth-century North Ostrobothnia, Finland, p. 87-110

Book Review, p. 111-121

OTHER
Farewells and Thanks to Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Welcome Helder Carvalhal, p. p. i

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Bart Lambert, Louis Sicking, Counts, cities and commerce: a comparative study of the institutional foundations of international trade in late medieval Flanders, Holland and Zeeland, p. 309-343
Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas, Šárka Caitlín Rábová, Turning points in socialist medicine: transnational influences, psychologization and class in East-Central European expertise on premature children, 1950s–1980s, p. 345-376
Corine Maitte, Didier Terrier, Work and time: a reassessment in continental Europe in the 14th–19th centuries, p. 377-401
Eilidh Garrett, Chris Galley, Social class differentials in infant mortality, Ipswich 1871–1909, p. 403-433
James D. Fisher, Bound to the soil (part II): the political economy of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in eighteenth-century rural England, p. 435-467

Book Review, p. 469-477

RESEARCH ARTICLE
James Daniel Fisher, Bound to the soil (Part I): the origins of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in South-West rural England c.1670–1750, p. 135-166
Joana-Maria Pujadas-Mora, Gabriel Brea-Martinez, Anna Cabré, Which did most to encourage secularisation: politics, economy or family? Shifting seasonality of marriages in the Barcelona Area, 1715–1880, p. 167-202
Laura Flannigan, Narrating Disputes: litigation and its retellings in fifteenth-century England, p. 203-234
Vibeke Narverud Nyborg, The use of public health legislation during the 1918–1920 Influenza pandemic in Norway, p. 235-260
Scott C. Lomax, Understanding late medieval population change in English towns: an alternative approach, p. 261-291

Book Review, p. 293-307

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Dave Fogg Postles, Fidei laesio and debt revisited: the Lichfield consistory court, 1464–1478, p. 1-20
Bernard Capp, Children, juveniles, and crime in early modern London: Old Bailey trials, 1674–1750, p. 21-44
Gordon McKelvie, Licenses to retain in Tudor England, 1541–1585, p. 45-71
Salvatore Valenti, Modern infrastructure? The long transition in urban water infrastructure in Milan, Naples, and Venice, c. 1800–c. 1910, p. 73-99

Early career essay prize winner
Matt Raven, Servile migration and seigniorial reaction in England: the serfs of Great Waltham and High Easter (Essex), c. 1336–1361, p. 101-125

Book Review, p. 127-134

Sarah Fox, Margaret Brazier, Midwives’ oaths: everyday life and the law in seventeenth-century England, p. 231-253
A. T. Brown, Bridget Cox, Institutional memory and legal conflict in the Old Borough of Durham, 1300–1450, p. 255-281
Tom Hamilton, Prosecuting theft in Old Regime France, c.1540–c.1700, p. 283-312
E. E. Sheng, Did women have an industrious revolution? Women's time and work in London, 1750–1830, p. 313-341

Book Review, p. 343-351

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Eliska Bujokova, Juliette Desportes, Poor Relief as ‘Improvement’: Moral and Spatial Economies of Care in Scotland, c.1720s–1790s, p. 113-136
Mark Bailey, The regulation of the rural market in waged labour in fourteenth-century England, p. 137-162
Keith Sugden, Sebastian Keibek, James Wells, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Adam Smith revisited: the relationship between the English woollen manufacture and the availability of coal before the use of steam power, p. 163-191
Wieke Elien Metzlar, Koen Matthijs, Paul Puschmann, Tying the knot in language-divided Belgium. A research into marriage partner selection in Flemish municipalities along the language border with Wallonia, 1798–1938, p. 193-223

Book Review, p. 225-228
Addendum, p. 229

BUREAUCRATIC SECRECY AND THE REGULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EUROPE OVER THE LONGUE DURÉE: OBFUSCATION, OMISSION, PERFORMANCE, AND POLICING

INTRODUCTION
Esther Liberman Cuenca, Asif A. Siddiqi, Bureaucratic secrecy and the regulation of knowledge in Europe over the longue durée: Obfuscation, omission, performance, and policing, p. 1-8

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Esther Liberman Cuenca, Oath-taking and the politics of secrecy in medieval and early modern British towns, p. 9-29
Adam Franklin-Lyons, Performative openness and governmental secrecy in fourteenth century Valencia, p. 31-52
Nicole Bauer, Keeping you in the dark: the Bastille archives and police secrecy in eighteenth-century France, p. 53-73
Asif A. Siddiqi, The materiality of secrets: everyday secrecy in postwar Soviet Union, p. 75-97
Michael D. Gordin, Afterword: hidden beauty, p. 99-104

Book Review, p. 105

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Christopher Dyer, Partnership among peasants: rural England, 1270-1520, p. 291-312
Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Travels and representations at the core of Western agricultural science: discovering rural societies in Spain, Italy and Lebanon in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, p. 313-334
Guy Solomon, Work and earning in the nineteenth century: Townley Colliery as a case study, p. 335-363
Steven Gunn, Tomasz Gromelski, Coroners' inquest juries in sixteenth-century England, p. 365-388
Samantha Williams, 'Poverty, gender and old age in the Victorian and Edwardian workhouse', p. 389-421

Book Review, p. 427-429

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Frances Richardson, Missing from parish records: Anglican and nonconformist occupational differences and the economy of Wales c.1817, p. 165-197
Piet Groot, Ruben Schalk, Journeymen Migration and Settlement in Eighteenth-century Holland, p. 199-232
Nick Mayhew, Katherine Ball, Debasement and demography in England and France in the Later Middle Ages, p. 233-256
Bengt Sandin, Jonathan Josefsson, Age as a yardstick for political citizenship Voting age and eligibility age in Sweden during the twentieth century, p. 257-280

Book Review, p. 281-283

INTRODUCTION
Tim Soens, Maïka De Keyzer, From the resilience of commons to resilience through commons. The peasant way of buffering shocks and crises, p. 1-11

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Maïka De Keyzer, Eline Van Onacker, Vulnerabilities avoided and resilience built. Collective action, poor relief and diversification as weapons of the weak (The Campine, Belgium, 1350-1845), p. 13-42
Hanne Cottyn, Eric Vanhaute, Esther Beeckaert, Peasant frontiers as a research strategy: peasant resilience and the reproduction of common land rights, p. 43-68
Tobias Haller, From commons to resilience grabbing: Insights from historically-oriented social anthropological research on African peasants, p. 69-95
Mary Clayton, Robert Shoemaker, Blood money and the bloody code: the impact of financial rewards on criminal justice in eighteenth-century England, p. 97-125
Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, A new perspective on the demographic transition: birth-baptism intervals in ten Spanish villages, 1830-1949, p. 127-155

Book Review, p. 157

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Jaco Zuijderduijn, Kim Overlaet, Strategies for old age and agency of the elderly in towns of the Low Countries in the Renaissance, p. 265-284
Paul Cavill, Mortuary dues in early sixteenth-century England, p. 285-308
Maria Cannon, Conceptualising childhood as a relational status: parenting adult children in sixteenth-century England, p. 309-330
Jan Kok, Luc Bulten, Bente M. de Leede, Persecuted or permitted? Fraternal Polyandry in a Calvinist colony, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, p. 331-355
Leonard N. Rosenband, Industriousness and its discontents: wages, workloads, and the mechanisation of papermaking, 1750-1820, p. 357-373

Book Review, p. 375
Corrigendum, 383

INTRODUCTION
Phillipp R. Schofield, Alternatives to expropriation: rent, credit and peasant landholding in medieval Europe and modern Palestine, p. 141-148

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Mathieu Arnoux, Credit and investment between town and countryside: the market in grain annuities in Normandy (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries), p. 149-176
Antoni Furió, Rents instead of land. Credit and peasant indebtedness in late medieval Mediterranean Iberia: the kingdom of Valencia, p. 177-209
Phillipp R. Schofield, Impediments to expropriation. Peasant property rights in medieval England and Marcher Wales, p. 211-232
Amos Nadan, The route from informal peasant landownership to formal tenancy and eviction in Palestine, 1800s-1947, p. 233-256

Book Review, p. 257

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Gerd Schwerhoff, Benjamin Seebröker, Alexander Kästner, Wiebke Voigt, Hard numbers? The long-term decline in violence reassessed. Empirical objections and fresh perspectives, p. 1-32
Jim van der Meulen, Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th-16th century), p. 33-59
Nena Vandeweerdt, Women, town councils, and the organisation of work in Bilbao and Antwerp: a north-south comparison (1400-1560), p. 61-87
Jenny Dyer, Georgian Washerwomen: tales of the tub from the long eighteenth century, p. 89-110
Colin G. Pooley, Using life histories to explore the complexities of internal and international migration, p. 111-131

Book Review, p. 133