Steve Hindle, Derek Hirst Endowed Professor of Early Modern British History at Washington University in St. Louis will present "Social Reproduction in an Industrializing Village, c. 1680–1780" on Friday, October 6, 2023. Hindle is particularly interested in how the social transformations caused by the Reformation, the English civil war, and the industrial revolution were experienced by working people (men, women, and children) at the local level; and has published widely on the nature and scale of the growth of governance, on the origins and significance of the evolution of social welfare policy, and on the changing balance of agriculture and manufacturing in early modern society. His study of social, economic, and spatial relations in an especially well documented seventeenth-century village was recently published as The Social Topography of a Rural community in Seventeenth Century England with Oxford University Press.