Elizabeth Craig-Atkins is a Senior Lecturer in Human Osteology at the University of SheffieldKaren Harvey is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham

• Introduction: the material body in archaeology and history – Elizabeth Craig-Atkins and Karen Harvey1 Archives of embodiment: body and experience in the archaeological and historical record – Karen Harvey2 Marking maternity: integrating historical and archaeological evidence for reproduction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – Elizabeth Craig-Atkins and Mary E. Fissell 3 Embodying the history of shoes: footwear and gender in Britain, 1700–1850 – Matthew McCormack4 ‘The Corporation of Corpse-stealers’: archaeological and historical evidence of bodysnatching in early eighteenth-century London – Robert Hartle5 Who smokes anymore? Documentary, archaeological and osteological evidence for tobacco consumption and its relationship to social identity in industrial England, 1700–1850 – Anna M. Davies-Barrett and Sarah A. Inskip 6 Uncovering the lives of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century inhabitants of Bristol through osteoarchaeological and documentary analysis – Heidi Dawson-Hobbis and Jocelyn Davis7 Disability, gender and old age in the Industrial Revolution: cultural historical and osteoarchaeological perspectives – Sophie L. Newman and David M. TurnerIndex