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Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England
Past & Present, gtaf010, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf010
Published: 23 April 2025
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Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Past & Present, gtaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009
Published: 18 April 2025
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Duties on brimstone, 1770. Source: Samuel Baldwin, A Survey of the Brit...
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Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Published: 18 April 2025
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Duties on brimstone, 1770. Source: Samuel Baldwin, A Survey of the British Customs (London, 1770), 55.
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THE SOURCES OF ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY IN THE EIC
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Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Published: 18 April 2025
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THE SOURCES OF ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY IN THE EIC
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Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947
Past & Present, gtaf005, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf005
Published: 12 April 2025
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Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism Get access
Past & Present, gtaf008, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf008
Published: 12 April 2025
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning Get access
Past & Present, gtae049, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae049
Published: 09 April 2025
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total spinning employment estimate, 1720–1770* * Sources: See Fig... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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total spinning employment estimate, 1720–1770* * Sources : See Figures 1 – 3 . The total population employed in spinning was between 450,000 and 500,000 c. 1720, rising to nearly 700,000 in c. 1770.
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wool-spinning employment estimate, 1720–1770* * Sources: Stephen B... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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wool-spinning employment estimate, 1720–1770* * Sources : Stephen Broadberry et al. , British Economic Growth, 1270–1870 (Cambridge, 2015); Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider, ‘Losing the Thread: A Response to Robert Allen’, Economic History Review , lxxiii, 4 (2020); Elizabeth Boody Schumpe
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cotton-spinning employment estimate, 1697/8–1770* * Source: B. R. ... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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cotton-spinning employment estimate, 1697/8–1770* * Source : B. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (Cambridge, 1988). Employment in cotton spinning was between 15,000 and 20,000 at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but it rose, particularly after 1740, to more than 60,000 spinne
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types of work for women in england and wales, 1770–1834* * Note: P... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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types of work for women in england and wales, 1770–1834* * Note : Percentages exclude non-responses. * Sources : Derived from Tables A4 – A6 and the sources there. Spinning dropped from being reported in more than half of the parishes visited by Arthur Young and his correspondents in c. 1770
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flax-spinning employment estimate, 1720–1770* * Sources: See n. 49... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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flax-spinning employment estimate, 1720–1770* * Sources : See n. 49. Employment in flax spinning likely rose throughout the eighteenth century, reaching close to 150,000 by c. 1770.
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estimated share of population employed in spinning, 1721–1771* * Source... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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estimated share of population employed in spinning, 1721–1771* * Sources : See Figures 1 – 3 ; E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England, 1541–1871: A Reconstruction (Cambridge, 1981); B. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics (Cambridge, 1988). The share of t
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employment for women in england and wales, 1770–1834* * Note: This... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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employment for women in england and wales, 1770–1834* * Note : This Figure excludes non-responses. * Sources : Derived from Tables 1 , 3 , 5 and A12 and the sources there. In c. 1770, Arthur Young’s Tours found that work was available across the parishes he and his correspondents visited
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employment for women in matched parishes, 1770–1771 and 1834* * Sources... Get access
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Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning
Published: 09 April 2025
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employment for women in matched parishes, 1770–1771 and 1834* * Sources : Young’s Tours (see n. 71); Royal Commission of Inquiry into Administration and Practical Operation of Poor Laws: Report, Index, Appendix , Parliamentary Papers, 1834 (44), xxxvii. In parishes that appeared in both Young
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The Small Bedroom From The Villa Di Civita Giuliana Showing Three Cots Alon...
Published: 18 March 2025
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The Small Bedroom From The Villa Di Civita Giuliana Showing Three Cots Along With Crockery And A Rig For A Chariot. Image Reproduced Thanks To The Kind Permission Of The Parco Archeologico Di Pompei.
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Histogram of the results of a Monte Carlo simulation (100,000 iterations) o...
Published: 18 March 2025
Histogram of the results of a Monte Carlo simulation (100,000 iterations) of income generated by slaveholding at Pompeii
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Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii
Past & Present, gtaf006, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf006
Published: 18 March 2025
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The productive spaces of the bakery in Regio IX showing the bread oven and ...
Published: 18 March 2025
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The productive spaces of the bakery in Regio IX showing the bread oven and the bare furnishings. Image reproduced thanks to the kind permission of the Parco Archeologico di Pompei.
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(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History
Past & Present, gtaf004, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf004
Published: 06 February 2025
