Growth of Population in Eighteenth Century England.

Account for the Growth of Population in Eighteenth Century England During the Eighteenth Century Britain underwent an explosion in population of a magnitude unsurpassed anywhere else in Europe. When George I was crowned the population of Britain was estimated at 5.25 million. One Hundred years later this number had increased to the total of 10.25 million . But why did this huge increase in population occur? The answer can be found by observing the sociological and biological changes …

…move away from the 'traditional' agricultural life that came before. It was this changing with the times that created the climate for the explosion. Bibliography M. J.Daunton Progress and Poverty, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) D. R. Wier, Rather Never Than Late: Celibacy and Age at Marriage in English Cohort Fertility, 1541-1871, Journal of Family History, (1990), A. Woodley, 'The Georgian Population Boom', Regency Life, 15th November 2002, http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/regency/pop.html