Patterns of rural infant mortality
By Paul Atkinson (University of Liverpool) – research conducted at Lancaster University thanks to ERC funding. This work looked at the variation in infant mortality across time and place in country...
View ArticleThe Public Works Loan Board and the growth of the state in nineteenth century...
by Ian Webster The Public Works Loan Board was formed in 1817, when the government was faced with a stagnant economy and rising unemployment after the Napoleonic wars. It was established to lend money...
View ArticleEngineering the industrial revolution (1770-1850)
by Gillian Cookson (University of Leeds) The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, is published in February by Boydell Press for the Economic History Society’s series...
View ArticleAre businessmen from Mars and businesswomen from Venus? An analysis of female...
by Jennifer Aston (Oxford University) and Paulo di Martino (University of Birmingham) The full paper was published on the Economic History Review, accessible here Do women and men trade in different...
View ArticleEHS 2018 special: London’s mortality decline – lessons for modern water policy
Werner Troeksen (University of Pittsburgh) Nicola Tynan (Dickinson College) Yuanxiaoyue (Artemis) Yang (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim...
View ArticleEHS 2018 special: Upstairs, downstairs? Experiences of female servants in...
Charmian Mansell (University of Exeter) Despite women’s increased participation in the workforce, women in 2014 still carried out on average 60% more unpaid work (including cooking, cleaning and...
View ArticleManaging the Economy, Managing the People: narratives of economic life in...
by Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow) ‘It’s the economy stupid’, like most clichés, both reveals and conceals important truths. The slogan suggests a hugely important truth about the post-1945...
View ArticleEFFECTS OF COAL-BASED AIR POLLUTION ON MORTALITY RATES: New evidence from...
Industrialised cities in mid-nineteenth century Britain probably suffered from similar levels of air pollution as urban centres in China and India do today. What’s more, the damage to health caused by...
View ArticleDecimalising the pound: a victory for the gentlemanly City against the forces...
by Andy Cook (University of Huddersfield) Some media commentators have identified the decimalisation of the UK’s currency in 1971 as the start of a submerging of British identity. For example,...
View ArticleSmall Bills and Petty Finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law
by Alannah Tomkins (Keele University) Alannah Tomkins and Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), won an AHRC award to investigate ‘Small Bills and Petty Finance: co-creating the history of...
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