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Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

open access: yesThe 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

The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900

open access: yesThe 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

Sociodemographic Factors Associated With Established and Novel Antenatal Vaccination Uptake in a Cohort of Pregnant Women in Uganda. [PDF]

open access: yesPediatr Infect Dis J
Sturrock S   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales

open access: yesThe 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

The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

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