Class

Question 1

Population of England

Answer 1

1691 - 4.9 mil

1821 - 11.5 mil

Question 2

Population of Scotland

Answer 2

1691 - 1 mil
1831 - 3 mil

Benefits of union for Scotland = highlands increasingly modernised i.e. Cash payments, more trade e.g. Of cattle

Question 3

Population of Ireland

Answer 3

1691 - 2 mil

1821 - 6.8 mil

Question 4

Population growth (%)

Answer 4

28%

Question 5

Law on crime

Answer 5

Bloody code:
50 in 1688
220 in 1800
Mainly against property

Question 6

Criminals in London

Answer 6

1/6 of London = criminals in 1780 according to The Times. Aged 16-30.

Question 7

Prostitutes in London?

Answer 7

5000

Question 8

Literacy rates:

Answer 8

HARRIS
Mid C17 - 30%
1740 - 45%
London - 80%

Question 9

Enclosure

Answer 9

STONE

1/4-1/3 of all rented values owned by elite in 1880

Question 10

Enclosure %

Answer 10

HOPPIT
1/5 of total land enclosed by statute
44% legislature passed by Westminster - land; 28% Edinburgh; 17% Dublin

Question 11

Marriage/location

Answer 11

STONE - 3/4 of upper class men in Cheshire married wives from the same county in 1640

Question 12

Bloody code in practice

Answer 12

EASTWOOD - 1779-1819 = 119 sentenced to death in Oxfordshire; 8 hung

Question 13

Rebellion

Answer 13

HARRIS - people calling on the monarch eg. Monmouth, bread and butter riots, jacobites, petitions…

Question 14

Public office/London

Answer 14

1 in 10 in C17

Question 15

Popular disturbances

Answer 15

SWEET - 333 between 1717 and 1800

Question 16

Labour disputes

Answer 16

DOBSON - 400

Question 17

Historian on difference between landed and monied interest?

Answer 17

SPECK

Question 18

Assembly Rooms York

Answer 18

Lord Burlington, 1731

Question 19

Paving streets e.g.

Answer 19

Southampton, 1770, £4775

Question 20

Friendly societies

Answer 20

North and west of England: 37% of total

Question 21

Social spectrum models?

Answer 21

CANNADINE - 2 and 3 tier models; DEVINE - 3 tier in Scotland w. Majority connected to land.

(In England only 40% men working in agri in C19 - lowest in Europe.)

Question 22

Oxfordshire county spending

Answer 22

12% on Persecution Societies

Question 23

SPCK schools

Answer 23

London, 132 by 1732

Question 24

Five historians on the period

Answer 24

FRANK O’GORMON - popular participatory politics
HABERMAS - public sphere
E. P. THOMPSON - moral economy of the crowd and working class consciousness
DE VRIES - industrious revolution

Question 25

Barriers between U and M class?

Answer 25

Landed Qualifications Act (1711) - trying to make MP's conform to traditional landed wealth. Also to be financially independent from the crown.

Question 26

Religious measures pre-1700

Answer 26

Toleration Act (1689) - 939 licences taken out (non/permanent) - ie. Dissent strong

Question 27

Literature and empire

Answer 27

NUSSBAUM - race in contemporary drama e.g. Othello onstage | BOWEN - kit inspired by colonial contact e.g. Memoirs of William Hickey

Question 28

Urban population of Scotland

Answer 28

DEVINE - 1750: 9% 1800: 1/3 Devine = historian on Scotland and increase in industry (England: 17% in 1750)

Question 29

Mp's

Answer 29

1790 - 1/6 businessmen

Question 30

Working day data

Answer 30

VOTH - Increased working year because of loss of religious holidays Old Bailey records: 40% longer day between 1750-1830

Question 31

Income quote

Answer 31

WRIGLEY "large and sustained rise in real incomes per head."

Question 32

Birmingham stats

Answer 32

DAVIDOFF AND HALL 10% society members = female between 1780-1850 City doubled in size between 1780-1800 to 70,000 people 71% teachers female in 1851

Question 33

Men serving at the end of the Napoleonic Wars

Answer 33

300,000 soldiers and 130,000 sailors in 1820

Question 34

War taxes

Answer 34

22 new taxes over F Rev and Nap wars; 1.5 million raised

Question 35

Key newspaper eg's

Answer 35

The Spectator - Addison and Steele, 1711 | The Manchester Gazette - William Cowdroy

Question 36

Moving to cities in Scotland?

Answer 36

DEVINE - "the key agent of urbanisation was industrialisation"