Stories
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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
Catalogue
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Population estimates of English small towns 1550-1851 / by Peter Clark, Kathy Gaskin and Adrian Wilson.
Clark, Peter, 1944-Date: 1989- Books
Urban population development in Western Europe from the late-eighteenth to the early-twentieth century / edited by Richard Lawton and Robert Lee.
Date: 1989- Books
Cities transformed : demographic change and its implications in the developing world / Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, Mark R. Montgomery [and others], editors ; Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
Date: [2003], ©2003- Archives and manuscripts
John McEwan: Population Mission to India, Jan-Feb 1990: Background material, published and unpublished: Baroda Population Research Centre: publications of Dr M E Khan
Date: 1980sReference: PP/MEW/G/5/5/2Part of: McEwan, John- Books
The changing sex differential in mortality / Robert D. Retherford.
Retherford, Robert D.Date: 1975