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‘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

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

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

Archeo-Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science. [PDF]

Adv Mater
von Contzen E, von Ditfurth J, Stroth F, Rapp BE.   +3 more
europepmc   +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

Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period: Intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14. [PDF]

Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci
Miyahara H, Kataoka R, Yamamoto K, Tokanai F, Moriya T, Takeyama M, Sakurai H, Ohyama M, Horiuchi K, Hotta H.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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, David González Agudo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cortical Bone Loss in Barcelona Across Time (1st Century CE-18th Century CE) and Its Potential Relationship With Linear Enamel Hypoplasia. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Cevallos A, Tarragó A, Rissech C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reading and relating with Frieda Fromm‐Reichmann and Joanne Greenberg

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

Innovation and the great divergence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
wiley   +1 more source