Families in Early Modern Appleby Magna
A ‘breakdown of the early modern village social order by social rank and status’ (Alan Roberts)

Illegitimacy and illegitimates in English history
essay by Alan Macfarlane
chapter in Peter Laslett, Karla Oosterveen and Richard M Smith (eds.), Bastardy and its comparative history (Arnold, 1980)

Human bonding: parents and their offspring in early modern England
essay by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, exploring parent-child relationships in the context of ‘reciprocity’, mutual obligations through the life-course of families (U. Oxford)
Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, 17 (1997)

Servants and Apprentices
Bibliography of secondary sources (EMR)

Words and deeds of madness in eighteenth-century France
Bilingual (French and English) site, containing excerpts from legal records - petitions, interviews and inquiries into individual cases - of the appointment of a guardian to look after the insane or mentally impaired (Laurent Cartayrade)
(Currently unavailable, Jan 2006)