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Humanities and Social Sciences75%

Selected Abstracts

Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office.

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2010

No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Art, death and taxes: the taxation of works of art in Britain, 1796,1914

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 185 2001
Peter Mandler
Based primarily on an extensive survey of death duty papers in the Public Record Office, this article shows how works of art were taxed,or not,over the course of the long nineteenth century. It sheds light on the theory and practice of capital taxation, and the special treatment accorded works of art, especially when attached to landed estates. It also shows how towards the end of the period government negotiated the countervailing pressures both to professionalize the valuation and assessment of works of art and to protect the ,national heritage' in art from sale and export. [source]

The British Electoral System, 1885-1970

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 181 2000
Peter Catterall
At a time when the electoral system is coming under renewed scrutiny, this article examines the origins and creation of the present system in 1884-5, and its subsequent survival. This is the first such analysis to draw upon Public Record Office and party archives. Whilst showing that the political classes have been quite prepared to consider the merits of alternatives, particularly S.T.V., for Ireland or in colonial settings, they have usually been seen as less appropriate for Westminster. In exploring why that should be the case this article seeks to provide a new explanation for the longevity of the electoral arrangements of 1885. [source]

The Galton,Darwin,Wedgwood Pedigree of H. H. Laughlin

BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, Issue 1 2010
TIM M. BERRA fls
A pedigree of the Galton,Darwin,Wedgwood families that was exhibited as a poster at the Third International Congress of Eugenics in 1932 at the American Museum of Natural History has been located in the archives of Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. This pedigree was prepared by Harry Hamilton Laughlin, Director of the Eugenics Record Office of the Carnegie Institute. The pedigree shows consanguineous marriages within the three families. A special collection of rare Darwin family photographs assembled by Leonard Darwin has also been found in the Truman State University archives. These photographs were exhibited as a poster alongside the pedigree at the 1932 Eugenics Congress. The poster of the Galton,Darwin,Wedgwood pedigree is published here, together with a tabular version providing ready access to the information contained in the pedigree. Also included are the Darwin family photographs and a biographical sketch of Laughlin. © 2010 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 101, 228,241. [source]