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Demographic trends in late-slavery Jamaica, 1817-32
8 Jun, 2022
by J. R. Ward This blog post is based upon the author’s article forthcoming in the Economic History Review....
Mary Magdalen’s many lives: A longitudinal analysis of women admitted to two English Magdalen homes between 1851 and 1881
26 May, 2022
by Moritz Kaiser (University of Edinburgh) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
Germs and Governance: the past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control
25 May, 2022
by Marguerite Dupree (University of Glasgow)   This blog is based on the author’s co-edited volume (with Anne Marie Rafferty...
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The social-democratic road to maternity leave: revisiting the role of social groups in the development of Spanish family policies, 1900-36
17 May, 2022
by Guillem Verd Llabrés (University of Barcelona) New Researcher’s paper presented at the Economic History Society’s  annual conference, 2022,...
Let the punishment fit the man: Manorial amercements for bloodshed in fourteenth-century Yorkshire
6 May, 2022
by Stephanie Brown (University of Cambridge) New Researcher’s paper presented at the Economic History Society’s Annual Conference, 2022, session:...
Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 and the Great Divergence
4 May, 2022
by Cheng Yang (Renmin University of China) This blog is based on the author’s article which has been published...
‘Whom shall I trust?’: Commercial Relationships in the Sino-British Tea Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century
29 Apr, 2022
by Le Tian (University of Bristol) This blog is based on research made possible by the Research Fund for...
Granular Occupational Data in 19th Century Britain
26 Apr, 2022
by Hillary Vipond (London School of Economics) This blog is based on research made possible by the Carnevali Small...
Examining the ties between engineer Kenneth Cantlie and a network of people associated with the Leith-Ross Mission in the 1930s China
21 Apr, 2022
by Leena Lindell (University of York) This blog is based on research made possible by the Research Fund of...
Social Mobility through Marriage in the Eighteenth Century
14 Apr, 2022
by Jeanette Holt (Royal Holloway University of London) This blog is based on research made possible by the Research...
Lighting the Industrial Revolution
8 Apr, 2022
by Chris Evans (University of South Wales)   This blog is based on research made possible by the Carnevali...
Measuring Business Performance in the UK (1900-1986)
24 Mar, 2022
by Philip T. Fliers (Queen’s University Belfast) This blog is based on research made possible by the Carnevali Small...
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