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Adam, Ammaarah, Ades, Raphael, Banks, William, Benning, Canbeck, Grant, Gwyneth, Forster-Brass, Harry, McGiveron, Owen, Miller, Joe, Phelan, Daniel, Randazzo, Sebastian, Reilly, Matthew, Scott, Michael, Serban, Sebastian, Stockton, Carys and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2022) Trust, guilds and kinship in London, 1330-1680. Economic History working paper series (348/2022). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Alfani, Guido, Gierok, Victoria and Schaff, Felix (2022) Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850. Journal of Economic History, 82 (1). 87 - 125. ISSN 0022-0507

Arthi, Vellore and Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 (2021) Infant feeding and post-weaning health: evidence from turn-of-the-century London. Economics and Human Biology, 43. ISSN 1570-677X

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Bamji, Alex (2014) Medical care in early modern Venice. Economic History Working Paper Series (188/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Bennett, Robert J. and Hannah, Leslie ORCID: 0000-0003-0839-7412 (2022) British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis. Historical Methods, 55 (2). 61 - 77. ISSN 0161-5440

Bindler, Anna Louisa, Hjalmarsson, Randi, Machin, Stephen Jonathan ORCID: 0009-0004-8130-2701 and Rubio, Melissa (2023) Murphy's Law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1911). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

Broadberry, Stephen, Campbell, Bruce M.S. and van Leeuwen, Bas (2012) When did Britain industrialise?: the sectoral distribution of the labour force and labour productivity in Britain, 1381–1851. Explorations in Economic History, 50 (1). pp. 16-27. ISSN 0014-4983

Büchel, Konstantin and Kyburz, Stephan (2018) Fast track to growth? Railway access, population growth and local displacement in 19th century Switzerland. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1538). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

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Cantoni, Davide, Dittmar, Jeremiah ORCID: 0000-0002-3930-4496 and Yuchtman, Noam ORCID: 0009-0003-6501-9618 (2018) Religious competition and reallocation: the political economy of secularization in the Protestant Reformation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133 (4). 2037 - 2096. ISSN 0033-5533

Cantoni, Davide, Dittmar, Jeremiah E. ORCID: 0000-0002-3930-4496 and Yuchtman, Noam (2017) Reallocation and secularization: the economic consequences of the Protestant Reformation. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1483). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

Cantoni, Davide and Yuchtman, Noam (2014) Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (2). pp. 823-887. ISSN 0033-5533

Chaffin, W. LaJean and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2023) Unmaking apprenticeship in early modern London: Goldsmiths’ apprentices and the Lord Mayor’s Court, 1597–1720. London Journal, 48 (2). 99 - 121. ISSN 0305-8034

Ciccarelli, Carlo and Missiaia, Anna (2014) Business fluctuations in Imperial Austria's regions, 1867-1913: new evidence. Economic History working paper series (186). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Claridge, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-7394, Delabastita, Vincent and Gibbs, Spike (2024) (In-kind) wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: it’s not (all) about the money. Explorations in Economic History, 94. ISSN 0014-4983

Claridge, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-7394, Delabastita, Vincent and Gibbs, Spike (2023) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: it's not (all) about the money. Economic History Working Papers (360). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Claridge, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-7394 and Gibbs, Spike (2022) Waifs and strays: property rights in late medieval England. Journal of British Studies, 61 (1). 50 - 82. ISSN 0021-9371

Clark, Gregory and Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2022) Assortative mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021. Economic History Working Papers (337). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Clark, Gregory and Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2013) Intergenerational mobility in England, 1858-2012. Wealth, surnames, and social mobility. Economic History working paper series (180/2013). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Clark, Gregory and Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2013) Surnames and social mobility: England 1230-2012. Economic History working paper series (181/2013). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Clark, Gregory and Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2009) Urbanization, mortality, and fertility in Malthusian England. American Economic Review, 99 (2). pp. 242-247. ISSN 0002-8282

Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 and Curtis, Matthew (2020) Twins support the absence of parity-dependent fertility control in pretransition populations. Demography, 57 (4). 1571 - 1595. ISSN 0070-3370

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2024) Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. Explorations in Economic History, 94. ISSN 0014-4983

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2024) Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858-2018. Economic History Working Papers (369). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2019) Hidden wealth. Economic History Working Papers (301). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2019) Hidden wealth. Working Paper (39). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2024) The Irish in England. Journal of Economic History. ISSN 0022-0507 (In Press)

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2021) Where is the middle class? Evidence from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892–1992. Journal of Economic History, 81 (2). 359 - 404. ISSN 0022-0507

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2019) Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million. Economic History working papers. London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2019) Where is the middle class? Inequality, gender and the shape of the upper tail from 60 million English death and probate records, 1892-2016. Working Paper (30). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2022) The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016. Economic History Review, 75 (3). 667 - 702. ISSN 0013-0117

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 and Gráda, Cormac (2022) Artisanal skills, watchmaking, and the Industrial Revolution: Prescot and beyond. Northern History, 59 (2). 216 - 238. ISSN 0078-172X

Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 and Ó Gráda, Cormac (2022) The Irish in England. Economic History Working Papers (342). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Dewan, Torun, Meriläinen, Jaakko and Tukiainen, Janne (2019) Victorian voting: the origins of party orientation and class alignment. Working Papers (122). Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Helsinki, FI. ISBN 9789522742414

Dittmar, Jeremiah ORCID: 0000-0002-3930-4496 (2015) New media, competition and growth: European cities after Gutenberg. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1365). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

Dittmar, Jeremiah ORCID: 0000-0002-3930-4496 (2013) New media, firms, ideas, and growth: European cities after Gutenberg. . National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA.

Dittmar, Jeremiah ORCID: 0000-0002-3930-4496 and Seabold, Skipper (2015) Media, markets and institutional change: evidence from the Protestant Reformation. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1367). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

Dittmar, Jeremiah E. ORCID: 0000-0002-3930-4496 (2011) Information technology and economic change: the impact of the printing press. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (3). pp. 1133-1172. ISSN 0033-5533

de la Croix, David, Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 and Weisdorf, Jacob (2019) Childlessness, celibacy and net fertility in pre-industrial England: the middle-class evolutionary advantage. Journal of Economic Growth, 24 (3). 223–256. ISSN 1381-4338

de la Croix, David, Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 and Weisdorf, Jacob (2018) "Decessit sine prole" - childlessness, celibacy, and survival of the richest in pre-industrial England. Economic History working papers (276/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Fouquet, Roger and Hippe, Ralph (2019) The transition from a fossil-fuel economy to a knowledge economy. In: Fouquet, Roger, (ed.) Handbook on Green Growth. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 473 - 500. ISBN 9781788110679

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Gao, Pei and Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 (2019) The growth pattern of British children, 1850-1975. Economic History working papers (293). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Gazeley, Ian ORCID: 0000-0002-4277-1001 and Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 (2013) Nutrition in the English agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century. Economic History Review, 66 (3). 757 - 784. ISSN 0013-0117

Gazeley, Ian ORCID: 0000-0002-4277-1001 and Newell, Andrew (2015) Urban working-class food consumption and nutrition in Britain in 1904. Economic History Review, 68 (1). 101 - 122. ISSN 1468-0289

Gazeley, Ian ORCID: 0000-0002-4277-1001 and Verdon, Nicola (2014) The first poverty line? Davies' and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in the late 18th-century England. Explorations in Economic History, 51. 94 - 108. ISSN 0014-4983

Gibbs, Alex Spike (2019) Lords, tenants and attitudes to manorial officeholding, c.1300-c.1600. Agricultural History Review, 67 (2). 155 - 174. ISSN 0002-1490

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Hippe, Ralph and Fouquet, Roger (2019) The human capital transition and the role of policy. In: Diebolt, Claude and Haupert, Michael, (eds.) Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer International (Firm), pp. 205-251. ISBN 9783030001803

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 (2014) Consumption, 1700-1870. In: Floud, Roderick, Humphries, Jane and Johnson, Paul, (eds.) The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 1: Industrialisation, 1700–1870. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 237 - 263. ISBN 9781107631434

Horrell, Sara (2010) Diet and nutrition during the Industrial Revolution: the merits of hasty pudding. In: Local Population Studies Society: Annual Conference, 2010-04-14 - 2010-04-17, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom, GBR. (In Press)

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142, Humphries, Jane and Sneath, Ken (2015) Consumption conundrums unravelled. Economic History Review, 68 (3). 830 - 857. ISSN 0013-0117

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142, Humphries, Jane and Sneath, Ken (2013) Cupidity and crime: consumption as revealed by insights from the Old Bailey records of thefts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In: Casson, Mark and Hashimzade, Nigar, (eds.) Large Databases in Economic History: Research Methods and Case Studies. Routledge explorations in economic history. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 246 - 267. ISBN 9780415820684

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142, Humphries, Jane and Weisdorf, Jacob (2024) Forgotten family: the influence of women and children on the nexus of wage earning and demographic change in England, 1260–1860. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 54 (3). 529 – 558. ISSN 1082-9636

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142, Humphries, Jane and Weisdorf, Jacob (2020) Malthus’s missing women and children: demography and wages in historical perspective, England 1280-1850. European Economic Review, 129. ISSN 0014-2921

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142, Meredith, David and Oxley, Deborah (2009) Measuring misery: body mass, ageing and gender inequality in Victorian London. Explorations in Economic History, 46 (1). 93 - 119. ISSN 0014-4983

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 and Oxley, Deborah (2013) Bargaining for basics? Inferring decision making in nineteenth-century British households from expenditure, diet, stature, and death. European Review of Economic History, 17 (2). 147 - 170. ISSN 1361-4916

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 and Oxley, Deborah (2012) Bringing home the bacon? Regional nutrition, stature, and gender in the industrial revolution. Economic History Review, 65 (4). 1354 - 1379. ISSN 1468-0289

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 and Oxley, Deborah (2016) Gender bias in nineteenth-century England: evidence from factory children. Economics and Human Biology, 22. 47 - 64. ISSN 1570-677X

Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 and Oxley, Deborah (2012) Hasty pudding versus tasty bread: regional variations in diet and nutrition during the Industrial Revolution. Local Population Studies, 89 (1). 9 - 30. ISSN 0143-2974

Horrell, Sara and Oxley, Deborah (2011) Inferring decision making in c19th British households: expenditure, diet and stature. In: Household Decision Making in History, 2011-12-12 - 2011-12-12, All Souls College, Oxford, United Kingdom, GBR. (In Press)

Horrell, Sara Helen ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142, Humphries, Jane and Weisdorf, Jacob (2020) Family standards of living over the long run, England 1280-1850. Past and Present, 250 (1). 87–134. ISSN 0031-2746

Howlett, Peter (2004) The internal labour dynamics of the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870–1913. Economic History Review, 57 (2). 396 - 422. ISSN 0013-0117

Humphries, Jane (2023) Respectable standards of living: the alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270-1860. Economic History Working Papers (353). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Humphries, Jane (2024) Respectable standards of living: the alternative lens of maintenance costs, Britain 1270-1860. Economic History Review. ISSN 1468-0289

Humphries, Jane and Horrell, Sara ORCID: 0009-0002-6865-4142 (2019) Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280-1860. Explorations in Economic History, 73. ISSN 0014-4983

Humphries, Jane and Schneider, Benjamin (2021) Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36 (3). 428 - 438. ISSN 2078-0389

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Kammas, Pantelis, Sakalis, Argyris and Sarantides, Vassilis (2021) Pudding, plague and education: trade and human capital formation in an agrarian economy. GreeSE Papers (164). Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Minns, Chris ORCID: 0000-0003-1685-7757 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2011) Why did (pre‐industrial) firms train?: premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England. Economic History working papers (155/11). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Minns, Chris ORCID: 0000-0003-1685-7757 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2013) The price of human capital in a pre-industrial economy: premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England. Explorations in Economic History, 50 (3). pp. 335-350. ISSN 0014-4983

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Naidu, Suresh and Yuchtman, Noam ORCID: 0009-0003-6501-9618 (2013) Coercive contract enforcement: law and the labor market in nineteenth century industrial Britain. American Economic Review, 103 (1). pp. 107-144. ISSN 0002-8282

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Paker, Meredith, Stephenson, Judy ORCID: 0000-0003-4972-4096 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2022) Job tenure and unskilled workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672-1748. Economic History Working Papers (343). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Paker, Meredith, Stephenson, Judy ORCID: 0000-0003-4972-4096 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2023) Job tenure and unskilled workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672-1748. Journal of Economic History, 83 (4). 1101 - 1137. ISSN 0022-0507

Paker, Meredith, Stephenson, Judy ORCID: 0000-0003-4972-4096 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2024) Nominal wage patterns, monopsony, and labour market power in early modern England. Economic History Review. ISSN 1468-0289

Paker, Meredith, Stephenson, Judy ORCID: 0000-0003-4972-4096 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2021) Unskilled labour before the Industrial Revolution. Economic History Working Papers (322). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Pirohakul, Teerapa and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2014) Medical revolutions? The growth of medicine in England, 1660-1800. Economic History Working Paper Series (185/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Prak, Maarten, Crowston, Clare, De Munck, Bert, Kissane, Christopher, Minns, Chris ORCID: 0000-0003-1685-7757, Schalk, Ruben and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2018) Access to the trade: monopoly and mobility in European craft guilds, 17th and 18th centuries. Economic History working papers (282/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Prak, Maarten and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2019) Conclusion: apprenticeship in Europe – a survey. In: Prak, Maarten and Willis, Patrick, (eds.) Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 309 - 316. ISBN 9781108496926

Prak, Maarten and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2019) Introduction: apprenticeship in early modern Europe. In: Prak, Maarten and Wallis, Patrick, (eds.) Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1 - 19. ISBN 9781108496926

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Sahle, Esther (2014) Quakers, coercion and pre-modern growth: why friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early Atlantic trade expansion. Economic History working paper series (211/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Schaff, Felix (2020) When ‘the state made war’, what happened to economic inequality? Evidence from preindustrial Germany (c.1400-1800). Economic History Working Papers (311). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Schalk, Ruben, Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X, Crowston, Clare and Lemercier, Claire (2016) Failure or flexibility? exits from apprenticeship training in pre-modern Europe. Economic History Working Papers (252/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK.

Schneider, Benjamin and Vipond, Hillary (2023) The past and future of work: how history can inform the age of automation. Economic History Working Papers (354). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 (2016) Health, gender and the household: children’s growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA and the Ashford School, London, UK. In: Hanes, Christopher and Wolcott, Susan, (eds.) Research in economic history. Research in economic history (32). Emerald Group Publishing, Bingley, UK, pp. 277-361. ISBN 9781786352767

Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 and Ogasawara, Kota (2017) Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: assessing instantaneous changes in growth and changes in the growth pattern, 1911-39. Economic History Working Papers (265/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK.

Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 and Ogasawara, Kota (2018) Disease and child growth in industrialising Japan: critical windows and the growth pattern, 1917-39. Explorations in Economic History, 69. pp. 64-80. ISSN 0014-4983

Stanfors, Maria, Leunig, Tim, Eriksson, Björn and Karlsson, Tobias (2014) Gender, productivity, and the nature of work and pay: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry. Economic History Review, 67 (1). pp. 48-65. ISSN 0013-0117

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Udale, Charles (2023) Evaluating early modern lockdowns: household quarantine in Bristol, 1565–1604. Economic History Review, 76 (1). 118 - 144. ISSN 0013-0117

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Voth, Hans-Joachim and Leunig, Tim (1996) Did smallpox reduce height?: stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873. Economic History Review, 49 (3). pp. 541-560. ISSN 0013-0117

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Waldinger, Fabian (2012) Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany. Review of Economic Studies, 79 (2). pp. 838-861. ISSN 0034-6527

Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2019) Apprenticeship in England. In: Prak, Maarten and Wallis, Patrick, (eds.) Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 247 - 281. ISBN 9781108496926

Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2018) Guilds and mutual protection in England. Economic History working papers (287). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History, London, UK.

Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2011) Labour, law and training in early modern London: apprenticeship and the city’s institutions. Economic History working papers (154/11). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X, Colson, Justin and Chilosi, David ORCID: 0000-0002-2251-0381 (2016) Puncturing the Malthus delusion: structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800. Economic History Working Papers (240/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X and Webb, Cliff (2011) The education and training of gentry sons in early modern England. Social History, 36 (1). pp. 36-53. ISSN 0307-1022 (Submitted)

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Zhu, Ziming ORCID: 0000-0002-2550-311X (2022) Like father like son? Intergenerational immobility in England, 1851-1911. Economic History working paper series (349). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.