In this article we show that several leading natural scientists, statisticians and social scientists born between 1730 and 1930 are closely related by marriage, thereby forming what Annan (Studies in social history: a tribute to C. M. Trevelyan, Longmans, Green, London, pp 241–287, <CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1955</CitationRef>) has...</citationref>

Pins were made of brass from the Bronze Age to the nineteenth century. During this period in the Netherlands, in France and in the United Kingdom, the production processes greatly changed as well as the organisation of labour. Adam Smith chose this industry to link the specialisation of workers...

Bahía Blanca has been posed as the main Southern city of the country (both in population and economic terms) by various works in the field of economic geography. In particular, it has been emphasized its leading manufacturing sector (historically oriented to exports) and its role as center of...

This paper is concerned with some aspects of the way one particular railway occupation – that of locomotive driver – has been perceived in Great Britain from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th. The occupation of locomotive driver is one of the most significant within the railway...