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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt +3 more
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs +4 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
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Family names as indicators of Britain’s changing regional geography [PDF]
, 2009 In recent years the geography of surnames has become increasingly researched in genetics, epidemiology, linguistics and geography. Surnames provide a useful data source for the analysis of population structure, migrations, genetic relationships and ...
Cheshire, JA, Longley, PA, Mateos, P
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The Public Character of Church in the Digital Age☆
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The rise of digital technology in recent decades has led to a rapid change of communication and interaction within society and its public dimensions. As this shift in the technological landscape raises theological questions about the appropriate ecclesial use of digital technology, it also touches upon fundamental questions about the church's ...
Benedikt Levin Heymann
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