This paper introduces a special issue of The History of the Family on sanitation and urban
mortality. The special issue contains papers which focus on the impact of sanitary reforms on …

This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in
Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more …

This paper presents a new analysis of the contribution of particular causes of death to the
decline of mortality in England and Wales between 1851 and 1910. We examine deaths in a …

Previous scholarship has assumed global correlations between premarital service in
husbandry, marriage age, the extent to which marriage coincided with the attainment of …

The nineteenth century saw rapid urbanization and dramatic social change in Great Britain,
some of which can now be viewed at national scales for the first time through linkage of …

Although both the analysis of regional culture and urbanisation are long-standing
preoccupations in geography, few studies have considered the relationship between the …

The British census asked employers to record their workforce numbers. The responses to
this instruction provide a unique resource on firm size. While the responses were digitized …

Cities have specialised in particular urban functions throughout history, with consequential
implications for urban and regional patterns of economic and social change. This …

Since their publication in 1885 and 1889 respectively, Ravenstein's laws of migration–which
have since been summarised as eleven broad rules–have achieved something approaching …

This paper examines the population of corporate directors of Britain at the turn of the
twentieth century. Over the period 1881-1911 the corporate form became the most common …