Migration And Mobility In Britain Since The Eighteenth Century

This book provides a new perspective on migration in [Great Britain] in the past examining in detail the life-time residential moves of over sixteen thousand people spanning the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries.... The migration experience [is] related both to other life-cycle events affecting families and individuals and also to broader social economic and cultural changes in the structure of society. [The book] discusses in detail the reasons why people moved and the ways in which migration was related to factors such as employment change housing aspirations family circumstances personal crises and external events such as war. (EXCERPT)