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• Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England
• Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries
• Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach
• The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey
• Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution
• The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915
• Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades
• Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010
• Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century
• Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850
• Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810
• Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850
• Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860
• The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting
• Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how
• Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London
• Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003
• Writing the history of education as social and economic history
• A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75
• Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor
• The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400
• When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain
• Title to be confirmed
• Bismarck to No Effect: Fertility Decline and the Introduction of Social Insurance in Prussia
• Internal migration: distance, direction and determinants in England and Wales, 1851-1911. Fresh insights from the Census
• CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s
• Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973
• Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900
• How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870
• The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625
• The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)
• Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office
• A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911
• Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)
• The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland
• The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses
• 'The school case of 'Poor Harold': remembering and forgetting deceased children within family life in Britain, c.1900-50s
• Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815
• European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries
• The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village
• 'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition
• Prescribing childlessness: advice on infertility before in-vitro fertilisation in Britain, 1950-1980
• The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today
• Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London
• Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution
• 'Full marks to this sex-help clinic for the teenage lover'. The Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham (1964-1980)
• The medieval clothier
• 'Statisticians of the World, Unite!': The Statistical Society of London and the Making of Social Statisticians, 1833-1877
• Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny
• Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography
• Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570
• Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution
• Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• Women in banking: the introduction of the ‘Personal Banker’ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s
• Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900
• 160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions
• Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared
• Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England
• Lord, state and community elites in the late medieval and early modern village: the evidence of manorial officeholding
• New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône, South of France)
• Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines
• Fortunes of urban fullers in fourteenth-century England
• Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland
• 160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions
• Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared
• Coinage in the later medieval countryside: single-finds and the evidence from Rendlesham, Suffolk
• Architecture and the English economy, 1200-1500: a new history of the parish church over the longue durée
• The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach
• The exceptional case of the late medieval English economy: comparing price, wage and rent trends to Scotland and the Southern Low Countries
• Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20
• Building a Demographic Profile of Foreign Seamen in the British Navy, 1793-1815
• Imperial Germany, Pax Britannica, and the Political Economy of the Gold Standard, 1871-1914
• Between Economic Pragmatism and the 'Civilising Mission': Making a Case for the Domestic Electrification of Southern Nigeria, 1930 to 1960
• Crime, Punishment, and Body Snatching: Contested Memories of the 1797 Naval Mutinies
• The Central Electricity Board - Accidental Conservationists?
• The patriarchal republic: local officeholding in early modern England
• Scotland's first Industrial Revolution: a spatial economic analysis based on the Statistical Accounts - NOW CANCELLED
• The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy
• The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century
• Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
• Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon
• Revisiting Vinogradoff’s interpretation of Bracton: why was a servus not a slave?
• 150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland
• The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate Change and Globalisation
• Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access
• MPhil Presentations Part II
• Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire
• MPhil Presentations Part I
• The role of pragmatic literacy in estate management
• Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911
• Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism
• Ageing Population and Elderly Care in Sri Lanka
• Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain
• Travelling to town: medieval peasants in the urban marketplace
• Drainage and water supply in 18th century London
• Divergences or varieties in European economic development?
• The Treaty of Westminster: a turning point for the Anglo Iberian trade in the late 15th century?
• The Suffolk clothier in the age of Henry VII
• Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs
• Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice
• Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden
• Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913
• Family structure and the admission of children to the workhouse in post-famine Ireland
• Welfare and industrial conflict in the Italian automobile industry, 1968-1975
• Eating and drinking as a medieval peasant. Innovations in table manners in late medieval rural Valencia
• Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899
• Does sterilised central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rate? The case of the British Exchange Equalisation Account, 1952-1972
• Patterns of manorial office holding at late medieval and early modern Little Downham, 1300-1600
• Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression
• The changing fortunes of Poole, Lyme and Melcombe: wool, cloth, tax, trade and the fifteenth century Dorset economy
• White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes
• Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia
• Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880
• Trust and Inequality in Late Medieval England
• Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition
• Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)
• Anglo-American productivity differentials once again
• Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England
• Patterns of migration in late-medieval England
• Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930
• Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (4)
• Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (3)
• M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History
• Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (2)
• Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (1)
• M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy
• A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century
• The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form
• The shock to reinvigorate medieval economic history?
• Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe
• Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)
• A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland
• The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1700-1850
• Beveridge calling: The social insurance and allied services and the Mediterranean welfare model, 1942-1950s
• Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy
• Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene
• What was linen? Flax and hemp at home and work in 18th-century England
• Human Security, Food and International Order, 1918-1939
• The local and transnational organisation of the nascent Newfoundland dry cod trade, 1550-1650
• Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden
• Land market and the long 12th century transformation in Foligno county
• British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different?
• A comparative analysis of payday lending in America and Britain, 1900-1930s
• Medieval English Peasants and Culture
• Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900
• Was Domar Right? The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia
• Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England
• The Bank of England and the Genesis of Modern Management
• Adapting to workplace technological change over the long run: Evidence from US longitudinal data
• Land and credit in the asset allocations of the Jews in late 14th-century Zaragoza
• Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History
• Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name?
• Consumption and trade in East Anglian market towns and their hinterlands in the late middle ages
• The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919
• Peasant farmers and their workers in medieval England
• Railways and population: spatial interactions
• Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain
• MPhil Presentations
• "On or about/In and upon": ‘dating statements’ and the rise of ‘almanac time’ in early modern England
• MPhil Presentations
• Medieval textiles and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a handmaiden’s yarn
• The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression
• Pauper inventories and the material lives of the English poor, c.1680-1834
• Title to be confirmed
• 'Give me your wealthy, and skilled': immigration policy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England
• Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors
• Revisiting the Urban Graveyard Debate: An analysis of mortality differences between natives and migrants in North-Western European port cities: Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1930
• Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790
• The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900
• Justifying inequality: peasants in medieval ideology
• The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process
• Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries
• Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain
• Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland
• The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England
• What was an organic economy?
• The Fiscal-Military State and the Land Tax - Observations from Kent and London
• The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world
• Ideal vs Reality? The Ideal of the Breadwinner-Homemaker Household in Industrializing Regions in the Netherlands, ca. 1890
• International currencies past, present and future: two views from economic history
• The Domestic Buildings of Early Colonial Ireland
• Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750
• Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381
• Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent
• The impact of mechanization upon female and male employment in the English textile industry, circa 1780-1851
• Summer in the City: banking failures of 1974 and the development of international banking supervision
• Carrying Trade
• How much venereal disease was there in England's modern demographic history?
• Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources
• Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381
• Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective
• ‘To dig and to delve and to drive away hunger’: peasants and the intensification of English agriculture, 1000-1300
• French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?
• A war over water: the contestation of river environments in medieval and early modern England
• The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain
• Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion? 
• The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834
• What can autobiographies tell us about women's time-use in 19th century England?
• Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England
• What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852
• "The Dust Was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl
• The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt
• The transformation of the costs of children and its impact on reproductive behaviour: a comparative analysis of the second demographic transition in Switzerland
• Probate records as a source of occupational information
• Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825
• The Male Occupational Structure of Norwich, circa 1720-1841: Evidence from Quarter Session and Other Records
• Real wages and the household: Quantifying the economy of makeshifts of the poor in 18th-century England
• The volcano Laki in 1783: a serial killer? A French-English comparison
• Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature
• State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data