Infrastructure

Life-Course Data on Never-Married Rural Women in the Franc of Bruges (18th - 19th centuries)

Type

Equipment (E-resource)

Acronym

SINGLE

Code

APP/00116

Date of commissioning

01 January 2013 → …

Organisations

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Modern and contemporary history
- Socio-economic history
Social sciences
- Family and household studies
- Sociology of gender and gender relations

Keywords

History Life courses West Flanders

Funding project(s)

The old maid. Analysis of the survival strategies of never married women during the early modern period. Case-study: the region of Bruges, 1730-1850 (01J11807)

Other information

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Description

The SINGLE database includes life history data of never-married rural women in the Franc of Bruges during the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, this area largely corresponds to the administrative districts of Bruges and Ostend. Using primarily demographic sources, this database compiles biographical and other data about unmarried women (5,700 individuals, 700 life histories, 50 variables).