Peter Razzell
Biographic Data
| ID | 305802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Razzell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Razzell |
| SIGNATURE | RAZZELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gavin Weightman, The Great Inoculator
In February 1796, a contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine wrote: The increase of people within the last 25 years is visible to every observer ... Inoculation is the mystic spell that has produced this wonder ... It is now 30 years since the Suttons, and others under their instructions, had practised their skill in inoculation upon half the kingdom, and had reduced the risk of death to the chance of one in 2000. Hence the great increase in peopl…
The Victorian Working Class
The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London
This article is a response to Davenport, Schwarz, and Boulton's article, ‘The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London’. It introduces new data on the parish of St Mary Whitechapel which casts doubt on the pattern of the age incidence of smallpox found by Davenport et al. However, it is concluded that there was a decline in adult smallpox in London, accompanied by a concentration of the disease among children under the age of five. …
The Hazards of Wealth
English historical evidence suggests that before the twentieth century, adult mortality may have been as high among the wealthy as it was among the poor. Provisional data for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries indicate that in many areas, the aristocracy, gentry, merchants and professionals died in as great a number as labourers and poor husbandmen. Given the known association between poverty and ill-health, this finding represents something…
Did smallpox reduce height? A final comment
Sick, Not Dead
Did Smallpox Reduce Height
Should Remaining Stocks of Smallpox Virus be Destroyed
Journal Article Should Remaining Stocks of Smallpox Virus be Destroyed? Get access PETER RAZZELL PETER RAZZELL *30 Ingram Road, East Finchley, London N2 9QA, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 1995, Pages 305–307, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/8.2.305 Published: 01 August 1995
Essays in English Population History
The Growth of Population in Eighteenth-Century England
Population growth in eighteenth-century England was due mainly to a fall in mortality, which was particularly marked during the first half of the century. The fall affected all socioeconomic groups and does not appear to have occurred for primarily economic reasons. In addition to an explanation involving the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the major hypothesis considered in this article is that the significant improvement in domestic hygie…
The Conquest of Smallpox
Cholera, Fever, and English Medicine, 1825-1865
The Conquest of Smallpox
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Edward Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine
The Modern Rise of Population
The Pool Winners
Smallpox Inoculation. An Eighteenth Century Mathematical Controversy
The evaluation of baptism as a form of birth registration through cross-matching census and parish register data
A method of evaluating the accuracy of Anglican baptism as a form of birth registration during the period 1760–1834 is outlined and discussed in the light of the substantive application of the method to a sample of 45 parishes. The method fundamentally consists of comparing information in the 1851 Census with that in baptism registers for each individual parish. A first stage of the research tests an assumption that the 1851 Census is a reliable …
The Demography of the British Peerage
Population Change in Eighteenth-Century England. A Reinterpretation
here have been two traditional explanations of the acceleration in population growth which occurred during the middle of the eighteenth century: (i) the Malthusian view that it was a consequence of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions through an improved standard of life; (2) that it was the result of various medical innovations independent of these Revolutions. The problem posed by these competing interpretations is central to English eco…
Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army
From an historical and theoretical point of view, there was every reason to believe that the military would be heavily recruited from non-industrialized areasfrom agricultural areas and small towns . . . most fundamental there has been an integral association between military institutions and rural society. But in the final analysis the link between rural social structures and military organization is based on the more central issue of career opp…
The Hazards of Wealth
English historical evidence suggests that before the twentieth century, adult mortality may have been as high among the wealthy as it was among the poor. Provisional data for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries indicate that in many areas, the aristocracy, gentry, merchants and professionals died in as great a number as labourers and poor husbandmen. Given the known association between poverty and ill-health, this finding represents something…
Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army
From an historical and theoretical point of view, there was every reason to believe that the military would be heavily recruited from non-industrialized areasfrom agricultural areas and small towns . . . most fundamental there has been an integral association between military institutions and rural society. But in the final analysis the link between rural social structures and military organization is based on the more central issue of career opp…
The Growth of Population in Eighteenth-Century England
Population growth in eighteenth-century England was due mainly to a fall in mortality, which was particularly marked during the first half of the century. The fall affected all socioeconomic groups and does not appear to have occurred for primarily economic reasons. In addition to an explanation involving the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the major hypothesis considered in this article is that the significant improvement in domestic hygie…
Population Change in Eighteenth-Century England. A Reinterpretation
here have been two traditional explanations of the acceleration in population growth which occurred during the middle of the eighteenth century: (i) the Malthusian view that it was a consequence of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions through an improved standard of life; (2) that it was the result of various medical innovations independent of these Revolutions. The problem posed by these competing interpretations is central to English eco…
Did Smallpox Reduce Height
Did smallpox reduce height? A final comment
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London
This article is a response to Davenport, Schwarz, and Boulton's article, ‘The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London’. It introduces new data on the parish of St Mary Whitechapel which casts doubt on the pattern of the age incidence of smallpox found by Davenport et al. However, it is concluded that there was a decline in adult smallpox in London, accompanied by a concentration of the disease among children under the age of five. …
The Modern Rise of Population
The Pool Winners
Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army
From an historical and theoretical point of view, there was every reason to believe that the military would be heavily recruited from non-industrialized areasfrom agricultural areas and small towns . . . most fundamental there has been an integral association between military institutions and rural society. But in the final analysis the link between rural social structures and military organization is based on the more central issue of career opp…
Population Change in Eighteenth-Century England. A Reinterpretation
here have been two traditional explanations of the acceleration in population growth which occurred during the middle of the eighteenth century: (i) the Malthusian view that it was a consequence of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions through an improved standard of life; (2) that it was the result of various medical innovations independent of these Revolutions. The problem posed by these competing interpretations is central to English eco…
The Demography of the British Peerage
Smallpox Inoculation. An Eighteenth Century Mathematical Controversy
The evaluation of baptism as a form of birth registration through cross-matching census and parish register data
A method of evaluating the accuracy of Anglican baptism as a form of birth registration during the period 1760–1834 is outlined and discussed in the light of the substantive application of the method to a sample of 45 parishes. The method fundamentally consists of comparing information in the 1851 Census with that in baptism registers for each individual parish. A first stage of the research tests an assumption that the 1851 Census is a reliable …
The Pool Winners
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Edward Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine
The Modern Rise of Population
The Conquest of Smallpox
The Conquest of Smallpox
Cholera, Fever, and English Medicine, 1825-1865
The Growth of Population in Eighteenth-Century England
Population growth in eighteenth-century England was due mainly to a fall in mortality, which was particularly marked during the first half of the century. The fall affected all socioeconomic groups and does not appear to have occurred for primarily economic reasons. In addition to an explanation involving the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the major hypothesis considered in this article is that the significant improvement in domestic hygie…
Should Remaining Stocks of Smallpox Virus be Destroyed
Journal Article Should Remaining Stocks of Smallpox Virus be Destroyed? Get access PETER RAZZELL PETER RAZZELL *30 Ingram Road, East Finchley, London N2 9QA, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 1995, Pages 305–307, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/8.2.305 Published: 01 August 1995
Essays in English Population History
Did Smallpox Reduce Height
Sick, Not Dead
Did smallpox reduce height? A final comment
The Hazards of Wealth
English historical evidence suggests that before the twentieth century, adult mortality may have been as high among the wealthy as it was among the poor. Provisional data for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries indicate that in many areas, the aristocracy, gentry, merchants and professionals died in as great a number as labourers and poor husbandmen. Given the known association between poverty and ill-health, this finding represents something…
The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London
This article is a response to Davenport, Schwarz, and Boulton's article, ‘The decline of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century London’. It introduces new data on the parish of St Mary Whitechapel which casts doubt on the pattern of the age incidence of smallpox found by Davenport et al. However, it is concluded that there was a decline in adult smallpox in London, accompanied by a concentration of the disease among children under the age of five. …
The Victorian Working Class
Gavin Weightman, The Great Inoculator
In February 1796, a contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine wrote: The increase of people within the last 25 years is visible to every observer ... Inoculation is the mystic spell that has produced this wonder ... It is now 30 years since the Suttons, and others under their instructions, had practised their skill in inoculation upon half the kingdom, and had reduced the risk of death to the chance of one in 2000. Hence the great increase in peopl…
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