David R Green

Dados Biográficos

ID147156
NOMEDavid R Green
PRENOMESDavid R
SOBRENOMEGreen
ASSINATURAGREEN D R
AFILIAÇÕESKing's College London
ORCID0000-0002-0518-9979
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES178
TOTAL COMO AUTOR36
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1981
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

    Open AccessHarry Smith, David R Green et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2026Referências: 2

    This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health. Their pension application forms contain information on up to 10 years of sick leave taken prior to retirement by each retiree. These data have several advantage…

  • Trusting the postman

    Open AccessDavid R Green, David Green et al.ARTICLESocial History2025

    The Post Office was an immensely important institution of the British state. It fostered communication, encouraged business, provided employment and generated revenue for the Treasury. Efficiency and economy were paramount considerations for the Post Office authorities, keen to maintain the government's trust in good management. Maintaining public trust to deliver mail and messages speedily and securely also underpinned its operations. When trust…

  • Vision Impairment and the British Post Office, c.1860 to 1910

    Open AccessLaura Newman, David R Green et al.ARTICLEThe Historical Journal2025

    In this article, we first explicitly argue that disability associated with poor eyesight was a socially constructed category dependent on the needs of the Post Office as an employer and its ability to construct workplaces which ameliorated the impact of vision impairment. The second part of the article addresses the institutional responses and technological landscapes of work which comprised the contexts within which visual impairment needs to be…

  • The beating heart of the system

    Open AccessDouglas H L Brown, David R Green et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2020Citada por: 1

    In the later decades of the nineteenth century, the United Kingdom experienced a shift in the causes of mortality, from infectious diseases to those more associated with ageing. This epidemiological transition from acute to chronic conditions was accompanied by an increase in longevity and a corresponding increase in morbidity, measured by rising rates of sickness absence. As longevity improved, the period between the onset of ill health and deat…

  • The Natural Foundation of Perfect Efficiency’1

    Open AccessKathleen McIlvenna, Douglas H L Brown et al.ARTICLESocial History of Medicine2018

    This article explores the creation of the Post Office medical service. Working for the Post Office was relatively well-paid and an increasing number of doctors were employed. Medical provision expanded with the introduction of non-contributory pensions from mid-century and developed into a comprehensive and nationwide service that was involved at all stages of employment, from initial recruitment through to receiving a pension. Post Office doctor…

  • Addressing Ill Health

    Open AccessDavid R Green, Douglas H L Brown et al.ARTICLESocial History of Medicine2018Citada por: 1

    This article explores ill health and retirement in the Victorian Post Office. Compared to other branches of the Civil Service, ill health was of greater importance as a cause of retirement. Post Office doctors kept careful records of sickness absence, which rose over the period for all workers. These records were also used to determine if employees should be pensioned off on grounds of ill health. Employees in different sections of the Post Offic…

  • Poverty, Gender and the Life-cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834, by Samantha Williams

    Open AccessDavid R GreenARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    The historiography of poor law policy and practice, both before and after 1834, is currently undergoing something of a renaissance, with the publication of several important new studies at national, regional and local levels. Geographical gaps in our knowledge relating to the administration and distribution of relief have been filled, and we now know much more about how poor relief meshed with other kinds of welfare provision, and the various way…

  • Geographies of wealth

    Open AccessDavid R Green, Alastair OwensARTICLEThe Economic History Review2013Citada por: 3Referências: 49

    This article explores the composition and geographies of individual wealth holding in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century. It draws on various forms of death duty records to determine the individual ownership of wealth including both personal property and real estate. By combining information on these different kinds of property, it is possible to explore how different strata of wealth holders accumulated specific forms of wealth at …

  • Men, Women, and Money

    David R Green, Alastair Owens et al.BOOKMen, women, and money2011

    The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed significant developments in the structure, organization, and expansion of financial markets and opportunities for investment in Britain and its empire. But very little is known about how men and women engaged with these markets and with new opportunities for money-making. In what ways did the composition of personal fortunes alter in response to these developments? How did individuals ma…

  • Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves

    David R Green, David GreenARTICLEInternational Journal of…2010

  • Who comprised the nation of shareholders? Gender and investment in Great Britain, c. 1870–1935

    Open AccessJanette Rutterford, David R Green et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review2010Citada por: 36Referências: 5

    This article explores the widening ownership of stocks and shares in Great Britain between 1870 and 1935. It demonstrates the extent of that growth and the increasing number of small investors. Women became more important in terms of the number of shareholders and value of holdings. Factors that encouraged this trend included the issue of less risky types of investments, and legal changes relating to married women's property. We examine the ‘deep…

  • Lives in the balance? Gender, age and assets in late-nineteenth-century England and Wales

    Open AccessDavid R Green, Alastair Owens et al.ARTICLEContinuity and Change2009Citada por: 5

    Studies of wealth-holding in nineteenth-century Britain focus either on establishing aggregate measures or on individual case studies. These do not allow for a comparative analysis of the way that the composition of wealth was influenced by age and gender. This article explores the importance of these factors using both a case-study approach and a more comprehensive analysis of wealth left at death for a sample of 1,444 individuals. By establishi…

  • Space, Time, and Story Tracks

    Lesley J F Green, Lesley Green et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory2009Citada por: 4Referências: 11

    Using data collected during ethnographic fieldwork in the Palikur lands known as Arukwa along the Rio Urucauá in the Área Indígena do Uaçá, in Amapá, Brazil, we seek to expand current understandings of Arawakan oral forms of mapping that involve the listing of place-names. This article argues that the practice demonstrates a form of cartographic imagination that is based on a different theorization of the relationship between space and time. Cont…

  • The Use of Computers in Secondary Geography

    Open AccessDavid R GreenARTICLENew Zealand Journal of Geography2008

  • Pauper protests

    David R GreenARTICLESocial History2006Citada por: 10

    I am grateful to Craig Bailey, Simon Gunn, Hilary Guite and the participants in the ‘Long Eighteenth Century’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research for comments on earlier drafts of this

  • A measure of worth

    Open AccessAlastair Owens, David R Green et al.ARTICLEHistorical Research2006Citada por: 5Referências: 24

    This article discusses the reliability of probate valuations as a source for studying nineteenth-century wealth-holding by examining the extent to which estates were encumbered by debt. Drawing upon the analysis of a sample of Legacy Duty Office residuary account papers, it discusses the types and sizes of debts and compares the net values of personal estates with the gross estimates made for the purposes of probate. While indebtedness was widesp…

  • From chronological to spatio-temporal histories

    Lesley Fordred Green, Lesley Green et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Southern Africa2004Citada por: 1Referências: 7

    Palikur historical knowledge is overwhelmingly recorded spatially in landscape, but given that the map-maker's vision of the world is a product of a discourse about space and time, is a map an appropriate medium on which to base an archive of historical knowledge?This article explores aspects of Palikur speakers' experiences of landscape and historical time in the region known as 'Arukwa' along the Rio Urucauá in the state of Amapá, Brazil, and c…

  • Landscape Ecology And Geographical Information Systems

    R Haines-Young, David R Green et al.BOOKLandscape Ecology and Geographical…2003

  • Landscape Ecology and Geographical Information Systems

    R Haines-Young, David R Green et al.BOOKLandscape Ecology and Geographical…2003

  • Gentlewomanly capitalism? Spinsters, widows, and wealth holding in England and Wales, c. 1800–1860

    Open AccessDavid R Green, Alastair OwensARTICLEThe Economic History Review2003Citada por: 20Referências: 1

    This article examines the demographic and geographical importance of wealthy middle‐class women. It argues that in certain towns and cities, notably London, such women were of sufficient importance to merit attention in their own right. Drawing upon a sample of wills, it describes the types of wealth owned by these women. By examining women's investment in government securities, it argues that women's wealth was of crucial importance to the Briti…

  • Indigenous Knowledge and Archaeological Science

    Open AccessLesley Fordred Green, Lesley Green et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Archaeology2003Citada por: 52Referências: 11

    The move towards public archaeology counsels archaeologists to work participatively, placing a high priority on educational and developmental activities with local communities in order to share the means of production of historical knowledge and promote the conservation of heritage. Describing key moments in an archaeological project which took these principles as starting points in an indigenous peoples' reserve in northern Brazil, the paper con…

  • City visions and urban theory

    Open AccessDavid R GreenARTICLEUrban History2002

    The nightmare (or is it challenge?) that surely all reviewers face at one time or another is to be provided with a set of books that have little or nothing in common. Conversely, the nightmare that review editors face is to have these books collect dust in the same proportion as their conscience grows. The challenge is to reduce the proportion of guilt and dust in sufficient measure whilst at the same time avoiding posing an impossible task for t…

  • Lines of Conflict

    Open AccessDavid R GreenARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1998Citada por: 4Referências: 1

    This paper examines labour disputes in London between 1790 and 1870, based on a systematic coverage of working-class newspapers. Disputes were classified by type, cause and trade. Evidence exists for 294 disputes, the large majority of which were strikes. The incidence of disputes roughly paralleled cyclical and seasonal fluctuations in the economy. Wage claims were the main cause for conflict, although interpretation of such disputes needs to be…

  • Crewe

    David R Green, Diane K Drummond et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1997Citada por: 6

    Contents: Introduction Crewe Railway Town: A railway town - growth and emerging social structure Company and People - at the Works: The history of Crewe Railway Works and its workforce Managerial strategies Worker responses Skill and the labour process in Crewe Works Company and People - Paternalism and Politics in the Town: The culture and politics of nonconformity The politics of a railway town Paternalism and politics Conclusion Appendices Bib…

  • Metropolitan Estates of the Middle Class, 1800-50

    Open AccessDavid R Green, Alastair OwensARTICLEHistorical Research1997Citada por: 3

    This article compares the nature of probate records with the death duty registers and explores some of the ways in which these data can be used to analyse wealth-holding in London in the first half of the nineteenth century. Shortcomings of the probate data are discussed and suggestions made as to how such data can be interpreted in relation to wealth-holding in the urban middle class. In the context of London, the paper demonstrates how probate …