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47: What is the Case Fatality Rate of Smallpox?: Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport
46: Reconstructing Birth Histories using Linked Household Data and the 1911 Census Fertility Survey: Emma Diduch
45: Granular Georeferencing in Industrial Manchester, 1851-1901: Emily Chung
44: A model for road transport in France and the UK, 1910-1930: Alexis Litvine, Thomas ThÃ©venin, Arthur Starzec, Patrick Mille, Isabelle SÃ©guy and Guillaume Proffit
43: Road-rail substitution in the early motoring age, 1910-1938: Alban de Gmeline and Alexis Litvine
42: The Political Economy of Competition, Collaboration, and Emulation in the early modern Atlantic: Regina Grafe
41: The impact of rail development on press diffusion and vote in France during the Third Republic (1870-1940): Alban de Gmeline
40: Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800: Regina Grafe
39: Structural Change, Work Tasks and Urbanization in Early Modern England: Taylor Aucoin, David Chilosi, Justin Colson, Mark Hailwood, Patrick Wallis and Jane Whittle
38: The popular classes and royal justice in medieval England: evidence from the Derbyshire eyre of 1330-31: Chris Briggs
37: Geocoding British Censuses for England and Wales (1851-1911): Guillaume Proffit
36: Beyond sectors. A subsectoral analysis of historical occupational data and their relation to economic growth: Alexis Litvine and Stanley Hinton
35: Figuring out: the spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the European tradition of practical mathematics (13th-16th centuries): Raffaele Danna
34: Mining Family History Society Burials: Gill Newton
33: Adam Smith revisited: coal and the location of the woollen manufacture in England before mechanization, c. 1500-1820: Keith Sugden, Sebastian A.J. Keibek and Leigh Shaw-Taylor
32: Dirty float or clean intervention? The Bank of England on the foreign exchange market, 1952-72: Alain Naef
31: The global rise of patent expertise in the late nineteenth century: David Pretel
30: Institutions for Contract Enforcement: Insiders, Outsiders, and Insurance in Early Modern London: A.B. Leonard
29: BY-EMPLOYMENTS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR ESTIMATING HISTORICAL MALE OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES: Sebastian A.J. Keibek
28: Correcting the probate inventory record for wealth bias: Sebastian A.J. Keibek
27: Allocating labourers to occupational (sub-)sectors using regression techniques: Sebastian A.J. Keibek
26: Using probate data to determine historical male occupational structures: Sebastian A.J. Keibek
25: The Rise and Fall of the German Stock Market, 1870-1938: David Chambers, Carsten Burhop and Brian Cheffins
24: The pay of labourers and unskilled men on London building sites, 1660 â€“ 1770: Judy Stephenson
23: Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in mid-19th century Spain: Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Domingo Gallego
22: What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s: Natacha Postel-Vinay
21: Financial contagion and market intervention in the 1772-3 credit crisis: Paul Kosmetatos
20: CAN INFLATION EXPECTATIONS BE MEASURED USING COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES?: Rasheed Saleuddin
19: The winding up of the Ayr Bank, 1772-1816: Paul Kosmetatos
18: Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? Electrical power as a case study: Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Solomos Solomou
17: From sovereign nations to federal states. Creating stable systems of public finance in America and Germany: lessons for the Eurozone: James Macdonald
16: Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour 1928 – 31: Simon T Abernethy
15: Giffen behaviour in Irish famine markets: an empirical study: Charles Read
14: War, Conquest and Local Merchants: The Role of Credit in the Peripheral Military Administration of the Hispanic Monarchy during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century: Jose Miguel Escribano Paez
13: Housing and private outside space in nineteenth century England: Zoe Crisp
12: Family reconstitution in an urban context: some observations and methods: Gill Newton
11: Stabilizing monetary systems: sterling's currency and credit markets from the 12th to the 21st C: Anthony Hotson
9: Farewell to prices and incomes policies: Conservative economic policy-making, 1974-79: Adrian Williamson
8: Mistresses and marriage: or, a short history of the Mrs: Amy Louise Erickson
8: The Black Swan of the Golden Periphery: The Ottoman Empire during the Classical Gold Standard Era: Ali Coskun Tunçer
7: Marital status and economic activity: interpreting spinsters, wives and widows in pre-census population listings: Amy Louise Erickson
6: The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880-1913: David Chambers
5: Pledging and Credit Markets in Medieval England: Chris Briggs
4: The creation of a â€˜censusâ€™ of adult male employment for England and Wales for 1817: P. M. Kitson
4: Britain's money supply experiment, 1971-73: Duncan Needham
2: Retail Ratios in the Netherlands, c. 1670 - c. 1815: Sheilagh Ogilvie
1: Choices and Constraints in the Pre-Industrial Countryside: Sheilagh Ogilvie