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  1. Rural Penalty in Morbidity: Cause-Specific Morbidity among Working-Class Men and Women in Early Twentieth Century Sweden

    Article • European Review of Economic History, April 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Bernard Harris

  2. The decline of child stunting in 122 countries: a systematic review of child growth studies since the 19th century

    Article • BMJ Global Health, February 2026, BMJ

    Professor Bernard Harris

  3. Reseñas de libros/books review/ Resenhas de livros/96

    Article • Historia Agraria Revista de agricultura e historia rural, July 2025, Historia Agraria

    Professor Bernard Harris

  4. Charity and the National Health Service in the UK

    Article • The Economic History Review, August 2023, Wiley

    Professor Bernard Harris

  5. Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916

    Article • Labor History, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  6. Sickness Experience in England, 1870–1949

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bernard Harris

  7. Social security, full employment and voluntary action: The three pillars of William Beveridge's welfare society

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Bernard Harris

  8. Anthropometric history and the measurement of wellbeing

    Article • June 2021, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Professor Bernard Harris

  9. Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona†

    Article • The Economic History Review, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Bernard Harris

  10. Ten years of Voluntary Sector Review

    Article • Voluntary Sector Review, November 2020, Policy Press

    Daiga Kamerade, Peter Halfpenny, Dr James E Rees, Professor Bernard Harris, Carl Milofsky

  11. Warfare and Welfare: Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries, Edited by HerbertObinger, KlausPetersen and PeterStarke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780198779599; £70 (Hbk)

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Bernard Harris

  12. Parsimony and Pauperism: Poor Relief in England, Scotland and Wales in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Article • Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, May 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Bernard Harris

  13. Mortality decline by cause in urban and rural England and Wales, 1851–1910

    Article • The History of the Family, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  14. Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality

    Article • The History of the Family, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  15. George R. Boyer: The winding road to the welfare state—economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain

    Article • Journal of Economics, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bernard Harris

  16. Sanitary investment and the decline of urban mortality in England and Wales, 1817–1914

    Article • The History of the Family, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  17. Social Policy by Other Means? Mutual Aid and the Origins of the Modern Welfare State in Britain During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Article • Journal of Policy History, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Bernard Harris

  18. Not ‘radical’, but not ‘kailyard’ either: The Paisley Community Development Project reconsidered

    Article • Community Development Journal, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Bernard Harris

  19. Climate Effects and Stature since 1800

    Article • Social Science History, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Bernard Harris

  20. Book review

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, November 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Bernard Harris

  21. How Many Calories? Food Availability in England and Wales in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    Article • April 2015, Emerald

    Professor Bernard Harris

  22. Food for Thought: Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914

    Article • May 2014, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Bernard Harris

  23. The ‘cultural inflation of morbidity’ during the English mortality decline: A new look

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Bernard Harris

  24. Long-term changes in sickness and health: further evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society1

    Article • The Economic History Review, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Bernard Harris

  25. Ageing, Sickness and Health in England and Wales during the Mortality Transition

    Article • Social History of Medicine, February 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Bernard Harris

  26. Voluntary action and the state in historical perspective

    Article • Voluntary Sector Review, March 2010, Policy Press

    Professor Bernard Harris

  27. Welfare since 1945: Rewriting the History of Britain's Welfare State

    Article • Twentieth Century British History, December 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Bernard Harris

  28. Health by association

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, April 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Bernard Harris

  29. Public Health, Nutrition, and the Decline of Mortality: The McKeown Thesis Revisited

    Article • Social History of Medicine, December 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Bernard Harris

  30. Review Essay - Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective; Book Reviews; Abstracts

    Article • Contemporary British History, September 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  31. The Cambridge World History of Food

    Article • December 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Bernard Harris

  32. Review Article: Household, family and welfare: past, present and future

    Article • Continuity and Change, August 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Bernard Harris

  33. The Social History of Health and Healing

    Article • European History Quarterly, July 1999, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bernard Harris

  34. Anti‐Alienism, health and social reform in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain1

    Article • Patterns of Prejudice, October 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  35. Review Articles : Food in History

    Article • European History Quarterly, October 1997, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bernard Harris

  36. Responding to adversity: Government‐charity relations and the relief of unemployment in inter‐war Britain

    Article • Contemporary Record, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bernard Harris

  37. Unemployment, Insurance and Health in Interwar Britain

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bernard Harris

  38. Gender, health, and welfare in England and Wales since industrialisation

    Article • Emerald

    Professor Bernard Harris