Water, sanitation and health in the first industrial society: Britain 1780 – 1930

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Conferences

The project will host two international conferences:

• A workshop on historical epidemiology, January 2025 (details to be confirmed)
• A conference on historical and modern WaSH policies in comparative context, 2026 (details to be confirmed)

Publications in print or online early

Publications in press

Working papers​ and reports

• Davenport, R.J. 2023. 'Urban shitscapes and the late decline of infant diarrhoeal mortality in England and Wales: evidence from Medical Officer of Health reports, 1895-1911'. PDF

Recent related publications

• Aidt, T., Davenport, R.J. & Grey, F. 2023. 'New perspectives on the contribution of sanitary investments to mortality decline in English cities, 1845-1909', Economic History Review, 76(2), 624-660 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ehr.13195
• Aidt, T. S., Winer, S. L. and Zhang, P. 2022. 'Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913: A new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis', Cliometrica,16, 547-574 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-021-00239-0
• Davenport, R.J. 2021. 'Nineteenth century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney', Economic History Review, 74(4): 1096-1110, http://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13109
• Davenport, R.J. 2020. 'Urbanisation and mortality in Britain c.1800-1850', Economic History Review, 73(2): 455-485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12964
• Davenport, R.J., Satchell, M. & Shaw-Taylor, L.M.W. 2019. 'Cholera as a sanitary test of British cities, 1832-66', History of the Family Special Issue on Water and Sanitation, 24(2), 404-438, https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2018.1525755
• Harris, B. & Helgertz, J. 2019. 'Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality', History of the Family Special Issue on Water and Sanitation, 24(2), 207-226 https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1605923
• Harris, B. & Hinde, A. 2019. 'Sanitary investment and the decline of urban mortality in England', History of the Family Special Issue on Water and Sanitation, 24(2), 339-376 https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2018.1556722
• Hinde, A. & Harris, B. 2019. 'Mortality decline by cause in urban and rural England and Wales, 1851-1910', History of the Family Special Issue on Water and Sanitation, 24(2),377-403 https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1598463
• Jaadla, H. & Puur, A. 2016. 'The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality: Individual-level evidence from Tartu, Estonia, 1897–1900', Population Studies, 70(2), 163-179 https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2016.1176237
• Jaadla, H. & Reid, A. 2017. 'The geography of early childhood mortality in England and Wales, 1881–1911', Demographic Research, 37, 1861-1890 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26332245