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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson, Gill Newton, Linda Perriton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient DNA study provides clues to leprosy susceptibility in medieval Europe. [PDF]

Genome Biol
Romeyer-Dherbey JH, Caliebe A, Ӧzer O, da Silva NA, Mejía NM, Myburgh DA, Fuchs K, Pedersen DD, Boldsen J, Larsen LA, Seeberg L, Søvsø M, Rieger D, Prescher A, Nebel A, Krause-Kyora B.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Crossroads of Identity: The Late Medieval Evolutions of a Hospital Community. [PDF]

Yale J Biol Med
Barnhouse LC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
wiley   +1 more source

Българската нумизматична наука и предизвикателствата на дигиталната епоха

Българско е-Списание за Археология
Dilyana Boteva, Julia Tzvetkova, Lily Grozdanova   +2 more
doaj  

Cultural innovation can increase and maintain biodiversity: A case study from medieval Europe. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Spitzig A, Rösch M, Woodbridge J, Bauch M, Guzowski P, Erhart P, Fyfe R, Marinova E, Izdebski A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reading and relating with Frieda Fromm‐Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joshua Pugh
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

Bioarcheological Perspectives on the Timing of Adolescence in Rural Avar-Age Austria, 7th-9th Centuries ce. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Klostermann P, Lewis M, Berner M, Eggers S, Tobias B, Wang K, Hofmanová Z, Pany-Kucera D.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source