Philanthropic work involved large numbers of middle-class women in the performance of accounting functions during the nineteenth century. This hitherto 'hidden' group of women accountants is explored through a biographical study of housing reformer Octavia Hill. It is revealed that in her early...

This paper contributes to the theory of Bayesian consistency for a sequence of posterior and predictive distributions arising from an independent and identically distributed sample. A new sufficient condition for posterior Hellinger consistency is presented which provides motivation for recent...