On World Population Day, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge researchers bust some of the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages, challenging assumptions about everything from sex before marriage to migration and the health/wealth gap.
Millions of historical employment records show the British workforce turned sharply towards manufacturing jobs during the 1600s – suggesting the birth of the industrial age has much deeper roots.
̽»¨Ö±²¥COVID-19 pandemic should only present a short-term interruption to 250 years of improving life expectancy, argues historian Leigh Shaw-Taylor.
In 2003, researchers embarked on a project to piece together a picture of changes in British working life over the course of 600 years. ̽»¨Ö±²¥emerging results seem to demand a rewrite of the most important chapter in our social and economic history.
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