This article is the first dedicated study of the course and effects of the Great Famine of 1315–1322 on the population of any part of Wales. Drawing on the uniquely rich local records of the marcher Lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd (modern-day central Denbighshire), it examines grain and cattle prices, as well as famine-related regulations and crime. Data gathered from the records of Dyffryn Clwyd, a relatively poor and sparsely populated area, are used to test the assertion made by Ian Kershaw in his seminal 1973 article on the Great Famine in England, that the effects of the crisis were most acute in just such poor and thinly populated areas. It is concluded that the famine may have been more severe and prolonged in Dyffryn Clwyd than in the...
Historians of the Middle Ages have, with some notable exceptions, tended to address the issue of fam...
The Irish Famine killed over a million people who would not have died otherwise. The nosologies publ...
In this judicious analysis Professor Cormac O'Grada addresses central questions. Was Ireland overpop...
The Great Famine of the early fourteenth century was experienced across northern Europe and generate...
Famine as a historical phenomenon has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, ...
The last national famine in Scotland occurred during King William's reign in the late 1690s. Investi...
Scholars have long debated whether there was enough food in Ireland to feed the population during th...
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether periodic variations in annual infant mortality were associated with ma...
This overview of the Great Irish Famine is unfolded in terms of the three major phases of British go...
Since the early 1990s the study of the Great Famine of 1845-52 has been subject to a critical and cr...
The article makes use of a novel database on the occurrence of famines in Europe, from 1250 to the p...
This thesis is a. local study of the nationwide calamity of the Irish famine 1845-1850 and how it e...
The present article seeks to identify the nature, extent, and impact of the Great Bovine Pestilence ...
In a recent issue of this journal Bruce Campbell has suggested that England was able to avoid the ki...
Archaeological findings, in conjunction with contemporary quantitative data from manorial records, d...
Historians of the Middle Ages have, with some notable exceptions, tended to address the issue of fam...
The Irish Famine killed over a million people who would not have died otherwise. The nosologies publ...
In this judicious analysis Professor Cormac O'Grada addresses central questions. Was Ireland overpop...
The Great Famine of the early fourteenth century was experienced across northern Europe and generate...
Famine as a historical phenomenon has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent decades, ...
The last national famine in Scotland occurred during King William's reign in the late 1690s. Investi...
Scholars have long debated whether there was enough food in Ireland to feed the population during th...
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether periodic variations in annual infant mortality were associated with ma...
This overview of the Great Irish Famine is unfolded in terms of the three major phases of British go...
Since the early 1990s the study of the Great Famine of 1845-52 has been subject to a critical and cr...
The article makes use of a novel database on the occurrence of famines in Europe, from 1250 to the p...
This thesis is a. local study of the nationwide calamity of the Irish famine 1845-1850 and how it e...
The present article seeks to identify the nature, extent, and impact of the Great Bovine Pestilence ...
In a recent issue of this journal Bruce Campbell has suggested that England was able to avoid the ki...
Archaeological findings, in conjunction with contemporary quantitative data from manorial records, d...
Historians of the Middle Ages have, with some notable exceptions, tended to address the issue of fam...
The Irish Famine killed over a million people who would not have died otherwise. The nosologies publ...
In this judicious analysis Professor Cormac O'Grada addresses central questions. Was Ireland overpop...