Search Results - "Edwardian"
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‘Tall and lithe’–The wage-height premium in the Victorian and Edwardian British railway industry
Published 2017“…In this paper, I collected data on over 2,200 English and Welsh railwaymen from staff ledgers to test if the same relationship held during the Victorian and Edwardian period. Using an OLS model, it is found that a wage-height premium existed. …”
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‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39
Published 2016“…The sport became increasingly popular in the late nineteenth century and the Edwardian period. This paper examines the arguments and methods used in different anti-otter hunting campaigns 1900–1939 by organisations such as the Humanitarian League, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports and the National Association for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.…”
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Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12 †
Published 2021“…This article contributes to the literature by using a newly-constructed balanced panel of railwaymen working in the traffic departments of three prominent Edwardian railway companies with operations in England and Wales. …”
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Popular political continuity in urban England, 1867-1918: the case studies of Bristol and Northampton
Published 2016“…Secondly, establishing a line of continuity between working-class radicalism and later labour politics helps us to explain some of the tensions that characterised progressive politics in the Edwardian era. Finally, seeing working-class radicalism as a distinctive ideology with its own conceptual framework enriches our understanding of non-liberal progressive thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.…”
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“I want a measure of success”: the early writings of D. H. Lawrence and the literary marketplace
Published 2017“…Using extensive new archival research, this thesis analyses the literary marketplace of the ‘long’ Edwardian period to assess the circumstances for becoming an author at this time. …”
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