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Kuznets and de Vries have argued that excessive urban mortality rates precluded modern economic growth, with its concomitant rapid urbanisation, because no population could produce a rural population surplus sufficient to ... Economic History Review, 64(4

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

infrastructure for general use for pre modern British economic and social history and where possible to extend this down to the present so at to maximise the scholarly re-use potential ... To use these datasets ourselves to pursue a series of fundamental

and economic change, and the extent to which different locations in England shared the same short-term experience of mortality.

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

What role did transport play in long-run economic development? How did population geography develop 1377-1911?

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. ... Did it differ between towns with different economic and geographical characteristics?

LACHOS was launched in the 6. th. Latin American Economic History Congress (Santiago de Chile, July 2019) by Marc Badia-Miró (Universitat de Barcelona), Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Emiliano Travieso (both ... Over the last two decades scholars have

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

Davenport, R.J., Boulton, J., and Schwarz, L., 2016. 'Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox in eighteenth century cities: a reply to Razzell', Economic History Review, 69(1): 188-214.

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

We can then begin to understand the peculiar social milieu of the bastard in Gurktal, where (s)he served an economic purpose as a servant for much of his/her life

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

2020). Demographic and Socio-economic Data for Registration Sub-districts of England and Wales, 1851-1911.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

Ms Auriane Terki-Mignot. Auriane Terki-Mignot did her BA dissertation on female employment in Westmorland and is now doing the M.Phil in Economic history working on female employment during ... He is now taking the M.Phil in Economic and Social History,

Workhouses were intended as a deterrent to working age men especially, for moralistic, economic and ideological reasons.

family life from the later eighteenth century, and the growth of rural social housing– and their economic and social context. ... It relates these to underlying social and economic changes, the coming of glass windows, brick chimneys and coal grates

The name of the delivery attendant is given, together with any mortality of mother or child, and a variety of socio-economic and demographic information.

1850 followed a similar course among elites and non-elites and among European populations at differing stages of economic development.

The Occupational Structure of Britain Research program is collaborating with the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus to study the economic development of Canada. ... The long-term aim is to follow this work with a second study, 1951 to the

Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK. 2008. 'Private law and medieval village society' (Chris Briggs). ... Historical Economics Forum, Queen's University Belfast, UK. 2008. 'Medieval English peasants and the law' (Phillipp

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

Emiliano Travieso, PhD candidate in History. Latin America has long served as a laboratory to study the interplay between inequality and economic development, often compared with the former colonies of North ... Through the period following the

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

Data on occupational structure and population geography have exceptional promise for international comparative work in economic history.

123. Jacob Moscona, a PhD student in Economics at MIT, is working on a project to identify the economic consequences of political reform (the Great Reform Acts) on economic activity in ... The occupational data provide a measure of the economic character

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

The second pilot project, funded by a Carnevali Small Research Grant (Economic History Society), investigated the feasibility and benefit of creating a house-by-house GIS of historic Ipswich.

Secondly, they provide strong evidence that although economic developments during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century may seem to have been limited and gradual at the national scale, this surface calm ... incubators of technological innovation

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

The underlying aim of the project is to improve our understanding both of the first Industrial Revolution and of the centuries of economic development which preceded it and to put our

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

For further details see: Wrigley, E.A., The early English censuses, British Academy Records of Economic and Social History, new series (Oxford, 1911). ... For details of how these figures were derived see: Wrigley, E.A., 'English county populations in

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

This was linked to the concerns of eugenicists, who believed that this was leading to the genetic decline of the British 'race' at a time of imperial and economic crisis. ... Also, the Scots do not seem to have attempted to analyse the fertility data by

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

th. September, at Robinson College, Cambridge. We would like to acknowledge generous support for the meeting from the Economic History Society, the British Academy and the Ellen MacArthur Trust Cambridge. ... We would also like to acknowledge generous

Fourth, the regional diversity and geographical concentration of women's employment in different economic sectors at various geographical levels have been fully identified for the first time.

The original I-CeM project was based within the Department of History at the University of Essex and funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) between 2009 and ... Arts and Humanities and the Economic and Social Research Councils (UK),

Clark, '1381 and the Malthus delusion', Explorations in Economic History, 50:1 (2013), pp. ... 17-8; Broadberry et al, British economic growth, 1270-1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp.

The opportunity they present for extending per capita analysis into the past means that they have become a standard reference for historical demography and economic history, and have been cited in ... Why do we need to calculate population size?

Opposition to the existing economic system must, it was believed, reflect ignorance or unreason. ... heightening of class tensions, stimulated greater interest in the economic and social structure of the nation.

with each other and make international comparisons across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in social, economic and other fields of history.

Households are a critical element in any social or economic research conducted using census data. ... who formed an independent social and or economic unit.