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Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600-1870.
Romola J Davenport
Jul 28, 2021
Objective
This study tests the argument that industrialisation was accompanied by a dramatic worsening of urban health in England.Materials
Family reconstitutions derived from baptism, marriage and burial records...
Migration Life Expectancy Infant Mortality urbanisation Industrial Revolution Early childhood mortality
Published by: International journal of paleopathology
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600-1870.
Romola J Davenport
May 26, 2021
Cholera as a 'sanitary test' of British cities, 1831-1866.
The malign contribution of northern industrial cities to the stagnation of national life expectancy over the period 1820-1870 forms part of one of the most long-running debates in English economic history, regarding the impact...
In the shadow of coal
PJ Rentfrow, M Obschonka, M Stuetzer, L Shaw-Taylor, M Satchell, RK Silbereisen, J Potter, S Gosling
Feb 07, 2018
Recent research has identified regional variation of personality traits within countries but we know little about the underlying drivers of this variation. We propose that the Industrial Revolution, as a key era in the history...
Height and health in late eighteenth-century England.
Adult stature has become a widely used indicator of childhood nutritional status in historical populations and may provide insights into health inequalities that are not discernible in mortality rates. However, most...