Replacing gas boilers to hit 2035 climate target could cost households ‘up to £25,000’
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Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)
21 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 20 April 2021.
‘Justice’ comes in many forms. Women mired in violent marriages in early modern England had little hope of formal, legal escape but might try for justice of a rougher sort. A woman might seek a separation authorized by the church courts if her very life was in danger, or at least ask a justice of the peace to take bonds for her husband’s good behaviour, but that was about all the law offered, and even that only sparingly. That’s not to say that women in abusive relationships had no other options, though. Early modern wives, and their friends, sometimes tried rather less licit ways to improve their situations. This post tells the story of one woman whose complaints about her drunken brute of a spouse prompted a sympathetic vicar to sneak into her husband’s house at night, whip in hand and wearing…
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Bismarck: Just a Suicide Mission?
21 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Sending A Letter To The PM | Yes Minister
21 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, television
What It Was Like to Be a Roman Soldier
19 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics Tags: Roman empire
Truman’s Ultimatum Regarding Hiroshima
18 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: atomic bombings, Hiroshima, World War II
New Rule: Give It to Me Straight, Doc | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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in health economics, television Tags: economics of obesity, economics of pandemics
The Stuarts: James I (1603-1625)
18 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
The Elizabethan era came to a close in 1603 when the good queen gave up the ghost after a long and consequential reign. The twilight of the Tudors marked the end of the most transformative epoch in English history. The seed of Henry VIII was finally exhausted and there was no immediate heir to the crown. England was forced to look abroad for a stable political future. Queen Elizabeth’s ongoing refusal to acknowledge a successor befuddled her court and caused great consternation within her council. It was only thanks to the skillful and covert diplomacy of her greatest administrator, the hunchbacked Robert Cecil, that a peaceful transfer of power was secured. The new king of England was to be a Scotsman, James VI, the only son of Mary Queen of Scots.
When Elizabeth breathed her last, a messenger, Sir Robert Carey, was dispatched from Elizabeth’s death bed at Richmond Palace…
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No free riders
17 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, health economics Tags: free-riders
Lost on the woke
17 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of religion Tags: philosophy of science
In another blow for the union wage premium
16 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: union wage premium
.@climatecommnz @NZGreens
16 Apr 2021 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists
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