Booklet published twice-yearly with support from the Department of History, University of Essex, and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Cover illustration from W H Pyne, Encyclopedia of Illustration of the Arts, Agriculture, etc of Great Britain, 1845. Includes news from the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, news from the Local Population Studies Society; articles on "Life expectations of the widows and orphans of Freemen in London,1375-1399" (B Megson), "Labour Migration: Yorkshire c1670-1743" (M F Pickles), "Migration and mobility in Britain from the 18th to the 20th centuries" (C G Pooley and J Turnbull); research in progress, "Age at baptism in rural Hampshire in the second half of the 19th century" (S Dewhurst and A Hinde).