The emergence of the modern life cycle in Britain∗

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes This paper was given as the Alderman Sidney Smith Lecture in Social History in the University of Hull in May 1984. Further information on the sources and methods used to obtain the demographic estimates used in this paper can be obtained from M. Anderson, 'What is new about the modern family: an historical perspective', Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Occasional Paper, no. 31 (1983), 1–16, and from M. Anderson, 'The social significance of demographic change in Britain, 1750–1950' in F. M. L. Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 11 (forthcoming), ch. 1.