This paper reviews the debate concerning British industrial output growth between 1760 and
1830. The earlier indices by Crafts and Harley are revised in accordance with new data …

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and
international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914—the first great …

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the
thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English …

The interest generated by the anthropometric research program since the pioneering
publications of the late 1970s has been predicated to a considerable degree on the …

Richard Lynn reviews the history of the eugenics movement and argues that, in repudiating
eugenics, an important truth has been lost. By showing weaknesses in the arguments …

Abstract The Quarterly Bulletin has a long tradition of using historical data to help analyse
the latest developments in the UK economy. To mark the Bulletin's 50th anniversary, this …

The contributions included in this issue celebrate the 22d-year anniversary of the fall 1982
issue of Social Science History (vol. 6, no. 4) devoted to “Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare …

Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and
tennis, had their origins in nineteenth-century Britain. They were exported around the world …

We model UK price and wage inflation, productivity and unemployment over a century and a
half of data, selecting dynamics, relevant variables, non-linearities and location and trend …

Modelling trends and cycles in time series has a long history in empirical economics,
stretching back to the latter part of the nineteenth century. Until then, few economists …