Results 121 to 130 of about 97,459 (230)
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 471-495, May 2026.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
wiley +1 more source
Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris [PDF]
, 2000 This chapter examines attitudes towards the dead body, as exemplified by arrangements for funerals and burials, in Paris between around 1550 and 1670.
Harding, Vanessa
core
The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 555-574, May 2026.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
wiley +1 more source
The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 717-756, May 2026.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
wiley +1 more source
Demographic Research, 2009 This paper has two main goals. The first is to review the context for studying infant mortality, which includes a review of the theoretical framework, the covariates used to examine mortality over the first 60 months of life, and the major findings of ...
Krzysztof Tymicki
doaj
The significance of a ‘correct and uniform system of accounts’ to the administration of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 [PDF]
, 2011 Care, Verna
core +1 more source
Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England [PDF]
Fundamental to the Malthusian model of pre-industrial society is the assumption that higher income increased reproductive success. Despite the seemingly inescapable logic of this model, the empirical support for this vital assumption in the preindustrial
Gillian Hamilton, Gregory Clark
core
Lehahayer, 2010 Armenians in Horodenka at the turn of the 19th century in the light of the Armenian Catholic register of believers and the Roman Catholic registral records (of baptisms and marriages) The article is devoted, in its first part, to an analysis of ...
Franciszek Wasyl
doaj
Change in Marriage Behaviour in North-Central Namibia 1925–2009
Finnish Yearbook of Population ResearchNamibia is the only country in Africa for which historical data is available to describe the change in marriage behavior since the 1920s. The aim of this article is to describe and to understand how the age at first marriage changed and how it was ...
Veijo J Notkola +2 more
doaj
The plague of 1720 and migration in Martigues (France) in the 17th and 18th centuries. [PDF]
PLoS OneDarlu P, Séguy I.
europepmc +1 more source