This article explores the widening ownership of stocks and shares in Great Britain between
1870 and 1935. It demonstrates the extent of that growth and the increasing number of small …

This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in
Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using a remarkable new database of more …

A key challenge to theories of long-run economic growth has been linking the onset of
modern growth with the move to modern fertility limitation. A notable puzzle for these …

Introduction gender as a lens through which to view the engagement of women in the urban
economy. Local history societies and lecturers delivering undergraduate modules focusing …

This article investigates Victorian investor financial portfolio strategies in England and Wales
during the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that investors held on average …

This study deals with the impact of financialization on the development of charity during the
nineteenth century. We argue that this has two key aspects: firstly, the growth of charitable …

There are a number of reasons why investor portfolio characteristics are of interest. First,
there is limited evidence of what individual investors actually held in their portfolios in the …

It was a commonplace among contemporaries, and remains received wisdom today, that
inventors were poorly remunerated during the industrial revolution. Adapting a dataset of …

Production of staples occupies an important part in Sub-Saharan Africa's crop production,
and maize is its single most important food staple. This thesis mainly examines the role of …

This study contributes to a growing volume of scholarship that highlights the importance of
financial diversification in business history. It shows that, pre-WWI, financial advice for equal …