Nigel Yates, Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain (1830-1910)

The people's health, 1830-1910

Endangered lives. Public health in Victorian Britain

somewhat tempted to put in a word for the swine. Of course, William Pickles's classic on Epidemiology in country practice is readily available in medical libraries; but I suspect that Lord Moynihan's Truants is not, and Ruth Holland's collection of Richard Asher's writings is certainly not thus available. I hope that after a decent interval, A sense of Asher will be reprinted, possibly even as ...

Medicine and Community in Victorian Britain

Socialists and Social Reformers in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility in Victorian Britain

This article analyzes rural-urban migration in Great Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Using a new dataset of 28,000 individuals matched between the 1851 and 1881 population censuses, I examine the selection process and treatment effect of migration, controlling for the endogeneity of the migration decision. I find that urban migrants were positively selected—the best of the...