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The evidence suggests that married women found ways to evade the restrictions of coverture, although the legal mechanisms by which they did so remain obscure.

But when business cards appeared in London in the eighteenth century, they didn’t just advertise men’s businesses,but also those of married women, single women and widows. Married women also took apprentices for their own businesses through London’s gilds, albeit in their husbands’ names.

Coverture, from the fourteenth to the late nineteenth century, was unique to England: elsewhere in Europe the husband managed his wife’s assets but did not own them.

Married women’s ability to act as business proprietors is widely assumed to have been severely inhibited by the English marital property rule of coverture, whereby a husband took possession of virtually all of his wife’s property.

❕New WP from Amy Erickson❕
𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧
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depending on the epidemiological context. Where smallpox was ubiquitous (as in Sweden) then CFRs were probably 'only' 8 - 10%. But where smallpox was a rare epidemic disease then CFRs could be much higher due to the disruption of economic activities and domestic care.

The oft-cited case-fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox (Variola major) of 20-30% doesn't hold up to historical evidence.
Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport use evidence from eighteenth century Sweden and Iceland to demonstrate that, before vaccination, smallpox CFRs varied widely

❕New WP from Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport❕
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐨𝐱?
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As large-scale record linking projects gather speed, this case study suggests that reconstructing birth histories could be an important part of their contribution to research in historical demography.

Record linking contributes to the reconstruction process by increasing the number of children who can be observed with their mothers at any census and extending the chronological span of observed marriages and births.

This research note describes an adaptation of a method proposed by Luther and Cho (1988) to reconstruct birth histories using retrospective fertility surveys and census data - in this case, using partial birth histories obtained from linked census data for the county of Derbyshire.

❕New WP from Emma Diduch❕
𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲
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Where did rich and poor live in the "shock city" of the Industrial Revolution? This paper presents a method for precise address georeferencing for the I-CeM database as a tool for studying residential patterns in 19th century cities, using Manchester as a specific case study.

❕New WP from Emily Chung❕
𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟏-𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟏
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based on road typology and early automobile specs and tested them against historical journey times. It paves the way to much more precise calculations of journey time, accessibility and network metrics for the early twentieth century.

This paper introduces the first detailed road network for cars in France and the UK in 1910 and 1930 using historical Michelin road maps. The authors also describe how they created a speed model for early cars

❕New WP from Alexis Litvine, Thomas Thévenin, Arthur Starzec, Patrick Mille, Isabelle Séguy, and Guillaume Proffit❕
𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊, 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟎
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Was early modern Globalisation driven by European inter-state competition? Comparing English and Spanish regulations of Transatlantic trade suggests it wasn’t.