Tracing a Female Mind in Late Nineteenth Century Australia: Rose Selwyn

European storminess: late nineteenth century to present

Annual and seasonal statistics of local air pressure characteristics have already been used as proxies for storminess across Northern Europe. We present an update of such proxies for Northern Europe and an unprecedented analysis for Central Europe which together considerably extends the current knowledge of European storminess. Calculations are completed for three sets of stations, located in N...

Scientists in nineteenth century Australia. A documentary history

Rights of passage. Emigration to Australia in the nineteenth century

The book is topically arranged into four parts. The first two articles in a biographical section were written by Roy Porter and Helen Brock and specifically deal with William Hunter, a prominent member ofthe new breed ofhealers called the men-midwives. Three further essays, by Ludmilla Jordanova on his obstetrical atlas, Adrian Wilson on man-midwifery, and Edward Shorter on the management of no...

Negotiating science and liberalism: medicine in nineteenth-century South Australia.

In this paper I document the ways in which the medical profession in nineteenthcentury South Australia negotiated its claims for medicine to be a science.1 It is widely accepted that medicine in the nineteenth century linked itself to science and used the cachet of science to improve its social and professional standing.2 The literature on this topic moves from the scientistic and technological...

Atmospheric Pollution and Child Health in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Atmospheric pollution was an important side effect of coal-fired industrialisation in the nineteenth century. In Britain emissions of black smoke were on the order of fifty times as high as they were a century later. In this paper we examine the effects of these emissions on child development by analysing the heights on enlistment during the First World War of men born in England and Wales in t...