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Professor Jane Humphries FBA

Eighteenth & nineteenth century economic history: industrialization; wellbeing; labour markets; women's work and family lives; child labour; anthropometrics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Economics, History
Sections
Early Modern History to 1850 , Modern History from 1850 , Economics and Economic History
Website
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-jane-humphries

Current post

Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford

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