Circular visualisation of historical migration in England in the long eighteenth-century. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Gietel-Basten S.
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century. [PDF]
Ber WissAraújo AM.
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The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman +1 more
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Little lives-reading between the lines: insights from the Northampton Infirmary Eighteenth Century Child Admission Database. [PDF]
Med HistMant M +8 more
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The big impact of small change: Fresh estimates of English wheat market integration, 1693–1893
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Using existing and new price data sets, we provide the first estimates of market integration across England over the entire 200 years of the industrial revolution. We document a significant, though not huge, integration improvement for markets furthest from London. Full integration was achieved by the 1830s. Our price data sets vary in quality
Liam Brunt, Edmund Cannon
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Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
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The mystery of the "air-dried chaplain" solved: the life and "afterlife" of an unusual human mummy from eighteenth century Austria. [PDF]
Front Med (Lausanne)Nerlich AG +7 more
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Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2020 Ferrari G +8 more
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