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Edward Anthony Wrigley (Sir Tony Wrigley): Economic and Demographic Historian and Historical Geographer. ... Peterhouse 1979-2022 Professor of Population Studies, London School of Economics 1979-88; Emeritus Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1979-2022;

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 project tests how markers of industrialization -- including

Economic History Review. 2021; 74(3), 784-808. Chapters in books. Bennett, R. ... Field, J.F. Economic change in a London suburb: Southwark, c. 1601-1881.

This literature’s influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear as crucial components in development economics and related fields. ... Statistical tests for departures from normality cannot detect

A new economic history of the pre-steam transport revolution in England and Wales.'. ... Transport planning. Modelling transport change and its effects on trade costs and economic geography.

setting allows for estimating the effect of labour-managed socialism on economic development. ... Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618.

These affected personal economic opportunity, the occupational choices of the population, their welfare, mobility, skills, consumption and demographic structures. ... In search of work. Labour migration and economic performance in England and the

Horden (ed) Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages, Stamford, Tyas and Watkins Publishers, 22-40. ... President of the Economic History Society 2007-2010. Honorary Vice-President Economic History Society 2010-.

The new output shows how the Geography Department is contributing to cutting edge economic and social research. ... Thompson has been published: Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834 (Boydell & Brewer, 2014).

The high demographic cost of urban centres limited the potential for urbanization, and presented a fundamental barrier to modern economic growth. ... Davenport, R.J. 2020. 'Urbanisation and mortality in Britain c.1800 - 1850', Economic History Review,

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Speedier delivery, coastal shipping times and speeds in the age of sail' Economic History Review. ... Field, J., 'Economic Change in a London Suburb: Southwark, c.1601–1881', London Journal, 43 (2018), pp.

of the English economy from the whole period from the late middle ages to the early twentieth century at multiple geographical scales. ... eds.) The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume I, 1700-1870, 4th ed.

1) Geography mattered. Using cholera as a test of the liability of water to faecal contamination we established that water supplies were most at risk, in mid-nineteenth century England, in ... Work with Toke Aidt and Felix Grey in the Department of

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used by economic historians. ... H. Rigby ed. A Companion to Britain in the later Middle Ages (Chichester, 2009), 242-60, 257; Nicholas R.

At the moment I am working with its test sample, focusing on hours actually worked by farm women between 1931 and 1941. ... Research Associate of the Global COE Research Unit for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Research,

Three leading economic history journals have published free to download special issues containing articles on the history of disease, epidemics, and improvements to life expectancy:. ... A new paper by CAMPOP member Romola Davenport has been published in

The fall in fertility was led by the middle classes but quickly spread throughout society. ... or whether there were local demographic continuities across borders, and if so whether they followed economic, occupational, cultural or even linguistic lines.

family life from the later eighteenth century, and the growth of rural social housing– and their economic and social context. ... In contrast it provides new light on both middle-class 'cottage' building in the period 1750-1850, and twentieth century

health investments and health outcomes', Economic History seminar, London School of Economics, March 2021. ... Davenport, R.J. 'Cholera epidemics as a 'sanitary test' of British towns, 1832-1866', Economic History Society conference, March 31st 2017.

John Broad MA DPhil. CAMPOP Affiliated Researcher. Social and Economic History of England especially c.1600-1850; History of social structure, landholding; poverty, welfare and rural housing; livestock and dairy farming. ... 43-56). Teaching. Past

This allows us to identify the range and scale of economic activities for the first time. ... From the middle of the sixteenth century the pace of development changed gear.

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

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

Although the three ward-based clusters of streets (protestant Shankill, catholic Falls and middle class Windsor) showed little difference in mobility, there was distinctly lower mortality among the children of the ... the house as measured in 1901 and

Workhouses were intended as a deterrent to working age men especially, for moralistic, economic and ideological reasons. ... The Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 granted to those over 70 years of age a means of state support that was no longer dependent on

4. Crafts and Harley, 'Output growth and the British Industrial Revolution: a restatement of the Crafts-Harley view', The Economic History Review, 45:4 (1992), p. ... 7. Shaw-Taylor and Wrigley, 'Occupational structure and population change' in Floud,

36. Economic development and economic growth: the poverty and imprecision of our terminology and concepts. ... 35. French occupational structure, industrialisation and economic growth in France, 1695 to the present.

Affiliated Researcher. Centre for History and Economics. Postgraduate students. Supervisor(s). Based at. ... PhD student. Hans van de Ven and Sheilagh Ogilvie. Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

Dr Janine Maegraith, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Funding. Leverhulme Trust Grant F/09 722/A. ... The project has selected three communities with different economic structures, located in the southwest German territory of Württemberg.

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574. Davenport, R.J. 2021. 'Nineteenth century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney', Economic History Review, 74(4): 1096-1110,. ... Davenport, R.J. 2020. 'Urbanisation and mortality in Britain c.1800-1850', Economic History Review, 73(2): 455

Isaac Newton Trust grant. Transport, urbanization and economic development in England and Wales c.1670-1911. ... The Online Historical Atlas of Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development in England and Wales c.1680-1911.