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SUMMARY:'Consumption and Social Structure in Early Modern England' - Ken S
 neath
DTSTART:20070515T114500Z
DTEND:20070515T130000Z
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CONTACT:T.S. Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Study of the industrial revolution has until recently been dom
 inated by a focus on the supply side of the economy but McKendrick was in 
 the forefront \nof a revisionist school which drew attention to demand.  I
 n The Birth of a Consumer Society\, McKendrick triggered a debate by argui
 ng that a consumer \nboom which reached revolutionary proportions occurred
  in England in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.\n\nSubsequent 
 studies by Weatherill and Overton et al did not support the McKendrick the
 sis and argued that there was a widespread expansion of consumer goods in 
 the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth \ncenturies. However\, We
 atherill's study only covered the period up to 1725 and the Overton study 
 also had limited evidence beyond that date.\n\nBased on an analysis of 3\,
 000 probate inventories\, including more than 600 from the crucial post 17
 50 period\, this paper provides new evidence to \ninform the debate. Over 
 250 inventories relate to labourers in Huntingdonshire and they provide ra
 re evidence on the extent to which ownership of consumer goods extended do
 wn the social scale.\n
LOCATION:DARWIN COLLEGE
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