Cambios - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:18:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Cambios - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Structure of the household stock of consumer goods in Palencia, 1750-1840 https://historylab.es/structure-of-the-household-stock-of-consumer-goods-in-palencia-1750-1840/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=structure-of-the-household-stock-of-consumer-goods-in-palencia-1750-1840 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/estructura-del-stock-familiar-de-bienes-de-consumo-en-palencia-1750-1840/ Analysis of consumer goods and their availability to Palencia's families at a time of transition from the Ancien Régime to the liberal state

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]]> Between the end of the Ancien Régime and the beginning of the Contemporaneity, there was an increase in household consumption in Castile; an industrial revolution without industrialisation that the author, Fernando Carlos Ramos, observes in the province of Palencia between 1750 and 1840. The resource shows that, although consumption patterns remained unchanged among durable and semi-durable goods, household spending did increase. on which products was the largest amount of disposable income spent? In all the periods shown, textiles took up more than 50% of the value of household stock, reaching 60.41% between 1785 and 1800. Within this group, clothing and footwear gradually decreased its weight in overall expenditure, with bed linen increasing. Household goods, on the other hand, were the second most important group in household expenditure. Books, religious and personal objects did not exceed 1%; and jewellery barely reached 2.5% on average between 1750 and 1840. Thus, the importance of textiles was greater than any other good. In terms of consumption patterns, the author has observed how habits developed in the urban world that were “exported” to the rural world, revealing the city as the driving force behind socio-economic change. The increase in household spending was motivated by the economic recovery that took place between 1815 and 1830, coinciding with the favourable evolution of population growth rates, widening the margins of the market.

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]]> Evolution of female leadership in the town of Albacete, 1787-1880 https://historylab.es/evolution-of-female-leadership-in-the-town-of-albacete-1787-1880/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolution-of-female-leadership-in-the-town-of-albacete-1787-1880 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:27 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-de-la-jefatura-femenina-en-la-villa-de-albacete-1787-1880/ Loneliness had a woman's name. Evolution that shows the survival of customs between the Ancien Régime and liberalism.

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]]> The evolution in the city of Albacete of the marital status of the female head of household remained almost unchanged between 1787 and 1880. This structural stability reveals how family models and social customs were perpetuated after the transition from the Ancien Régime to the liberal political society. Female heads of household remained between 17% and 19% of the total number of families, with widows accounting for 82.3% of the female cases. The data show that family loneliness had a woman’s name; the condition of widows emancipated them from male guardianship.

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