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Christopher Dyer, Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society. The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680–1540 (1980), xiv+427 (Past and Present Publications: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).

Zvi Razi, Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish. Economy, Society and Demography in Halesowen, 1270–1400 (1980), xiv+162 (Past and Present Publications: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £12).

David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England (1980), x+246 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £12.50).

Michael Anderson, Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500–1914 (1980), (Macmillan, Studies in Economic and Social History, paperback £2.25).

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Alan B. Campbell, The Lanarkshire Miners: a Social History of their Trade Unions 1775–1874 (1980), xii+354 (John Donald, Edinburgh, £18.00).?

Morris J. Vogel and Charles E. Rosenberg (eds), The Therapeutic Revolution. Essays in the Social History of American Medicine (1979), xiv+270 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. $18.50).

F. K. Prochaska, Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth‐century England (1980), xiii+301 (Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, £15.95, paperback £6.95).

Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society. Women, Class, and the State (1980), ix+347 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £15.00).

Charles More, Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914 (1980), 252 (Croom Helm, £12.95).

M. Strobel, Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890–1975 (1979), xiii+258. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, £12.30).