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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, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney, Simon Szreter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathogenetical significance of porencephalic lesions associated with intracerebral inoculation of sheep with the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent [PDF]

, 2009
Decreased rates of transmission of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) to sheep have been attributed to some polymorphisms of the prion protein (PrP) and to a ‘species barrier’ on interspecies experiments.
Card, Cotran, Detwiler, Foster, Foster, Fraser, Goldmann, González, González, Hamir, Hamir, Hamir, Houston, Houston, Houston, Hunter, Jeffrey, McLennan, Nakaoke, Outram, Weller, Zakharov   +21 more
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Murdered in the Tabloids: Billposting and the Destruction of the Duke of Suffolk in 1450

Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. Historia Medieval, 2016
This essay examines the media campaign surrounding the sensational murder of the most powerful political figure in mid fifteenth-century England, William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk.
Clementine Oliver
doaj   +1 more source

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, Ben Jervis, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski, Matthew Tompkins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Efficiency of Self-Regulated Payments Systems: Learning From the Suffolk System [PDF]

This paper analyzes the operation of the Suffolk System, an interbank note-clearing network operating throughout New England from the 1820s through the 1850s. Banks made markets in each other's notes at par, which allowed New England to avoid discounting
Charles M. Kahn, Charles W. Calomiris
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Talking With the 'Hermit Regime'| Media Liberalization: Control and Consumption of Foreign Media in North Korea, China, and East Germany

International Journal of Communication, 2020
The pervasive consumption of smuggled foreign media in North Korea means that societal changes may bring political economic changes. To analyze how drastic political and economic changes may relate to and resulted from changing media systems and ...
Martha Kuhnhenn, Micky Lee, Weiqi Zhang
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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita, Spike Gibbs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating healthcare workforce recruitment and retention: a mixed-methods study protocol

BMJ Open
Introduction Although the sustainability of the health workforce has been identified as essential to achieving health and wider development objectives, challenges with securing and retaining the healthcare workforce persist.
Erkan Alkan, Noreen Cushen-Brewster, Philip Anyanwu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

Suffolk College: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 85/97) [PDF]

, 1997
The Further Education Funding Council has a legal duty to make sure further education in England is properly assessed. The FEFC’s inspectorate inspects and reports on each college of further education according to a four-year cycle. This is such a report

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