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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
wiley   +1 more source

The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
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

The 2024 Field Season at Caere, Vigna Marini Vitalini: A New Etruscan Temple and Its Surroundings. [PDF]

open access: yesEtruscan Ital Stud
Colivicchi F   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
wiley   +1 more source

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