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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.

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