Archiv für Januar 2013

Atoms for the people: the Atomic Scientists‘ Association, the British state and nuclear education in the Atom Train exhibition, 1947–1948

Research Articles CHRISTOPH LAUCHT, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 591-608Abstract

Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956

Research Articles RALPH DESMARAIS, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 573-589Abstract

Safeguarding the atom: the nuclear enthusiasm of Muriel Howorth

Research Articles PAIGE JOHNSON, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 551-571Abstract

‘The family that feared tomorrow’: British nuclear culture and individual experience in the late 1950s

Research Articles JONATHAN HOGG, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 535-549Abstract

‘Never a credible weapon’: nuclear cultures in British government during the era of the H-bomb

Research Articles RICHARD MAGUIRE, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 519-533Abstract

What is British nuclear culture? Understanding Uranium 235

Research Articles JEFF HUGHES, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 495-518Abstract

Introduction: British nuclear culture

Research Articles JONATHAN HOGG, CHRISTOPH LAUCHT, The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45 Special Issue 04, pp 479-493Abstract

Desertions in nineteenth-century shipping: modelling quit behaviour

Ship jumping in foreign ports was widespread throughout the age of sail. Desertion by seamen was illegal, it occurred abroad, and men who deserted only seldom returned home. We analyse desertion quantitatively and link it to the broader question of qu…

When did England overtake Italy? Medieval and early modern divergence in prices and wages

According to Allen, between 1500 and 1750, a „great divergence“ among countries in the level of wages occurred in Europe. Italian real wages were already among the lowest in the late medieval and early modern age. Their relative level diminished even …

The First World War and working-class food consumption in Britain

We reassess the changes in British working-class diets through the First World War. The 1918 Sumner Committee’s work on this was limited by a lack of consistency across household surveys. Our rediscovered 1904 data allow a cleaner comparison. Although…