Fuelling the Debate: The English Corn Law returns, the Corn Laws and the birth of political economy The Corn Returns, agricultural data from the 18th and 19th...
To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...
Birth control, Death control and the Demographic Transition The improving survival rates of children, and the freedom to...