(1541-1871) ; Démographie historique ; England ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Population ; Royaume-Uni ; Siècle XVI-XIX ; Technique de recherche
In this article, the reconstitution of the population of England for the period 1541 to 1871 conducted by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, presented by E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield in their important work
published in 1981, is reviewed and analysed. It begins by recapitulating the method used by the authors to obtain by back-projection, from series of births and deaths, an estimate of the age structure of the population and goes on to describe the measures