The Last Moors: Maghariba in Early Eighteenth‐Century Britain

Moors' Murders Publicity

Mental Health, to call the attention of the Press Council to a matter which recently has been the cause of considerable concern to members of the Association. Their concern arises from the amount of space, detail and prominence which has been given by certain sections of the Press in their reporting of a recent murder case.

Early blood chemistry in Britain and France.

I review here key research in the early years of the field of blood chemistry. The review includes successes and limitations of animal chemistry in the critical period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Eighteenth century medical theories emphasized the primacy of body solids. Body fluids were governed by the tenets of humoral pathology. After Boerhaave sparked interest in the chemistr...

The Progress of Grassland Research in Britain during the Last Decade

GRASS still occupies about 65% of the agricultural land of the islands that make up the United Kingdom. The research effort devoted to all aspects of its growth and utilization is considerable and is carried out by many official organizations, by large commercial firms, and by a few farmers. A review of the progress during the last decade, if confined to the limits of a single paper, is in cons...

The early years of chest radiology in Britain.

Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20 century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early 1900s that is more representative of urban working households in Britain in the period than any other existing record, although not without deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty amo...