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Harris, Bernard and Cresswell, Rosemary (2024) The legacy of voluntarism : charitable funding in the early NHS. Economic History Review, 77 (2). pp. 554-583. ISSN 0013-0117

Andersson, Lars-Fredrik and Eriksson, Liselotte and Harris, Bernard (2022) Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916. Labor History, 63 (2). pp. 210-233. ISSN 0023-656X

Harris, Bernard (2022) Social security, full employment and voluntary action : the three pillars of William Beveridge's welfare society. Social Policy and Administration, 56 (2). pp. 203-216. ISSN 0144-5596

Gorsky, Martin and Harris, Bernard and Marsh, Patricia and Milne, Ida (2021) The 1918/19 influenza pandemic and Covid-19 in Ireland and the UK. Historical Social Research, 33 (Supple). ISSN 0172-6404

Harris, Bernard (2021) Anthropometric history and the measurement of wellbeing. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 19. pp. 1-33. ISSN 1728-5305

Galofre-Vila, Gregori and Harris, Bernard (2021) Growth before birth : the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early-twentieth century Barcelona. Economic History Review, 74 (2). pp. 400-423. ISSN 0013-0117

Crow, Graham and Rawcliffe, Sue and Harris, Bernard (2019) Not 'radical', but not 'kailyard' either : the Paisley Community Development Project reconsidered. Community Development Journal, 54 (3). pp. 501-518. ISSN 0010-3802

Harris, Bernard and Helgertz, Jonas (2019) Urban sanitation and the decline of mortality. The History of the Family, 24 (2). pp. 207-226. ISSN 1873-5398

Harris, Bernard (2019) Parsimony and pauperism : poor relief in England, Scotland and Wales in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 39 (1). pp. 40-74. ISSN 1748-538X

Hinde, Andrew and Harris, Bernard (2019) Mortality decline by cause in urban and rural England and Wales, 1851-1910. The History of the Family, 24 (2). pp. 377-403. ISSN 1873-5398

Harris, Bernard and Hinde, Andrew (2019) Sanitary investment and the decline of urban mortality in England and Wales, 1817-1914. The History of the Family, 24 (2). pp. 339-376. ISSN 1873-5398

Galofré-Vilà, Gregori and Guntupalli, Aravinda and Harris, Bernard and Hinde, Andrew (2018) Climate effects and stature since 1800. Social Science History, 42 (4). pp. 763-794. ISSN 0145-5532

Harris, Bernard (2018) Social policy by other means? Mutual aid and the origins of the modern welfare state in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Journal of Policy History, 30 (2). pp. 202-235. ISSN 1528-4190

Harris, Bernard (2017) John Komlos and Inas R. Kelly, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-93829-2. Pp. xiv + 831. Economics & Human Biology. ISSN 1873-6130

Harris, Bernard (2016) Food supply, health and economic development in England and Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scientia Danica, Series H, Humanistica, 4 (7). pp. 141-154. 14. ISSN 1904-5492

Harris, Bernard and Floud, Roderick and Hong, Sok Chul (2015) How many calories? Food availability in England and Wales in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Research in Economic History, 31. pp. 111-191. ISSN 0363-3268

Harris, Bernard (2013) Comment on Simone Sarti, 'A Different Perspective to Investigate Social Inequalities : the Relationship between Height and Education in Italy'. Sociologica, 2013 (2). ISSN 1971-8853

Harris, Bernard and Gorsky, Martin and Meera Guntupalli, Aravinda and Hinde, Andrew (2012) Long-term changes in sickness and health : further evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society. Economic History Review, 65 (2). pp. 719-745. ISSN 0013-0117

Gorsky, Martin and Guntupalli, Aravinda and Harris, Bernard and Hinde, Andrew (2011) The ‘cultural inflation of morbidity’ during the English mortality decline : a new look. Social Science and Medicine, 73 (12). 1775–1783. ISSN 0277-9536

Harris, Bernard and Gorsky, Martin and Guntupalli, Aravinda and Hinde, Andrew (2011) Ageing, sickness and health in England and Wales during the mortality transition. Social History of Medicine, 24 (3). pp. 643-665. ISSN 0951-631X

Harris, Bernard (2010) Voluntary action and the state in historical perspective. Voluntary Sector Review, 1 (1). pp. 25-40.

Harris, Bernard (2008) Gender, health, and welfare in England and Wales since industrialisation. Research in Economic History, 26. pp. 157-204. ISSN 0363-3268

Gorsky, Martin and Harris, Bernard and Hinde, Andrew (2006) Age, sickness and longevity in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries : evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society. Social Science History, 30 (4). pp. 571-600.

Harris, Bernard (2006) Welfare since 1945 : rewriting the history of Britain’s welfare state. Twentieth Century British History, 17 (1). pp. 103-109. ISSN 0955-2359

Harris, Bernard (2005) Health by association. International Journal of Epidemiology, 34 (2). pp. 488-490. ISSN 0300-5771

Harris, Bernard (2004) Public health, nutrition and the decline of mortality : the McKeown thesis revisited. Social History of Medicine, 17 (3). pp. 379-407. ISSN 0951-631X

Edwards, Claudia and Gorsky, Martin and Harris, Bernard and Hinde, Andrew (2003) Sickness, insurance and health : assessing trends in morbidity through friendly-society records. Annales de Démographie Historique, 1 (105). pp. 131-167.

Harris, Bernard (2002) Review essay - Poverty, inequality and health: an international perspective. Contemporary British History, 16 (3). pp. 221-230. ISSN 1361-9462

Harris, Bernard (2001) 'The child is father of the man.' The relationship between child health and adult mortality in the 19th and 20th centuries. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30 (4). pp. 688-696. ISSN 0300-5771

Harris, Bernard (1999) Morbidity and mortality during the health transition : a comment on James C. Riley, ‘Why sickness and death rates do not move parallel to one another over time’. Social History of Medicine, 12 (1). pp. 125-131. ISSN 0951-631X

Harris, Bernard (1997) Anti-alienism, health and social reform in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Patterns of Prejudice, 31 (4). pp. 3-34.

Harris, Bernard (1997) Food in history. European History Quarterly, 27 (4). pp. 581-586. ISSN 0265-6914

Harris, Bernard (1997) Growing taller, living longer? Anthropometric history and the future of old age. Ageing and Society, 17 (5). pp. 491-512.

Harris, Bernard (1995) Responding to adversity : government-charity relations and the relief of unemployment in interwar Britain. Contemporary Record, 9 (3). pp. 529-561.

Harris, Bernard (1994) Health, height and history : an overview of recent developments in anthropometric history. Social History of Medicine, 7 (2). pp. 297-320. ISSN 0951-631X

Harris, Bernard (1993) The demographic impact of the First World War : an anthropometric perspective. Social History of Medicine, 6 (3). pp. 343-366. ISSN 0951-631X

Book Section

Harris, Bernard; Van Leeuwen, Marco, ed. (2024) History of mutualism. In: Research Handbook on Historical Sociology. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. (In Press)

Hinde, Andrew and Gorsky, Martin and Guntupalli, Aravinda and Harris, Bernard; Gray, Patrick and Hall, Joshua and Herndon, Ruth and Silvestre, Javier, eds. (2022) Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949. In: Standard of Living. Studies in Economic History . Springer Netherland, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 69-96. ISBN 9783031064777

Harris, Bernard; Alcock, Peter and Haux, Tina and May, Margaret and McCall, Vikki, eds. (2020) Nineteenth-century beginnings. In: Student's Companion to Social Policy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. (In Press)

Harris, Bernard; Bochel, Hugh and Daly, Guy, eds. (2020) The development of social policy, 1800-1945. In: Social policy. Routledge, London, pp. 133-165. ISBN 9780367200084

Harris, Bernard; Hellwege, Phillip, ed. (2018) The social historian's view. In: Perspectives of a Comparative History of Insurance Law in Europe. Comparative Studies in the History of Insurance Law/Studien zur vergleichenden Geschichte des Versicherungsrechts . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, pp. 236-240. (In Press)

Harris, Bernard; Matthijs, Koen and Hin, Saskia and Kok, Jan and Matsuo, Hideko, eds. (2016) Health and historical demography. In: Upside and down and inside out. Acco, Leuven, pp. 67-69. ISBN 9789462927223

Harris, Bernard; Alcock, Pete and Haux, Tina and May, Margaret and Wright, Sharon, eds. (2016) Nineteenth century beginnings. In: The Student's Companion to Social Policy. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, pp. 113-118. ISBN 9781118965979

Harris, Bernard and Morris, Andrew and Ascough, Richard and Chikoto, Grace and Elson, Peter and McLoughlin, John and Muukonen, Martti and Pospíšilová, Tereza and Roka, Krishna and Smith, David Horton and Soteri-Proctor, Andri and Tumanova, Anastasiya and Soteri-Proctor, Andri and Yu, Pengjie; Horton Smith, David and Stebbins, Robert A. and Grotz, Jurgen, eds. (2016) History of membership associations, volunteering and the voluntary nonprofit sector. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., London. ISBN 978-1-137-26316-2

Floud, Roderick and Harris, Bernard and Hong, Sok Chul; Floud, Roderick and Fogel, Robert and Harris, Bernard and Hong, Sok Chul, eds. (2014) Health, mortality and the standard of living : introduction. In: Health, mortality and the standard of living in Europe and North America since 1700. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 978 0 85793 178 8

Harris, Bernard; Floud, Roderick and Humphries, Jane and Johnson, Paul, eds. (2014) Health and welfare. In: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 122-150. ISBN 9781107038462

Harris, Bernard; Almudena, Moreno Minguez, ed. (2013) Gender and wellbeing in Britain since 1800. In: Family Well-Being. Social Indicators Research Series . Springer, London, pp. 203-221. ISBN 9789400743540

Harris, Bernard; Bochel, Hugh M. and Bochel, Catherine and Page, Robert and Sykes, Robert, eds. (2013) The development of social policy in England and Wales, 1800-1945. In: Social Policy. Pearson, London, pp. 89-109. ISBN 9781405858366

Harris, Bernard; Alcock, Pete and May, Margaret and Wright, Sharon, eds. (2012) Nineteenth-century beginnings. In: The Student's Companion to Social Policy. John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, pp. 111-116. ISBN 9780470655658

Harris, Bernard; Harris, Bernard, ed. (2012) Introduction : welfare and old age in Europe and North America. In: Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America. Perspectives in Economic and Social History . Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London, pp. 1-7. ISBN 9781848931893

Harris, Bernard and Gorsky, Martin and Guntupalli, Aravinda and Hinde, Andrew; Harris, Bernard, ed. (2012) Sickness insurance and welfare reform in England and Wales, 1870-1914. In: Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America. Perspectives in Economic and Social History . Pickering & Chatto Publishers, London, pp. 89-105. ISBN 9781848931893

Harris, Bernard; Addis, Elisabetta and Degavre, Florence and Eriksen, John, eds. (2011) Gender and social citizenship in historical perspective : the development of welfare policy in England and Wales from the Poor Law to Beveridge. In: Gender and wellbeing. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 29-60. ISBN 9781409407058

Borderías, Cristina and Harris, Bernard; Addis, Elisabetta and de Villota, Paloma and Degavre, Florence and Eriksen, John, eds. (2011) Preface : Gender and Well-Being: The Role of Institutions. In: Gender and Well-Being. Ashgate, 9781409407058, xix-xx.

Borderías, Cristina and Harris, Bernard; Woodward, Alison E. and Bonvin, Jean-Michel and Renom, Mercè, eds. (2011) Preface : Transforming gendered wellbeing in Europe: the impact of social movements. In: Transforming Gendered Well-Being in Europe. Ashgate, Farnham, xxiii-xxiv. ISBN 9781409402831

Harris, Bernard; Harris, Bernard and Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena, eds. (2009) Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of wellbeing. In: Gender and wellbeing in Europe. Ashgate, Surrey, pp. 59-84. ISBN 9780754672647

Harris, Bernard and Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena; Harris, Bernard and Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena, eds. (2009) Gender and wellbeing from the historical and contemporary perspective. In: Gender and wellbeing in Europe. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780754672647

Borderías, Cristina and Harris, Bernard; Harris, Bernard and Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena, eds. (2009) Preface : Gender and wellbeing in Europe: historical and contemporary perspectives. In: Gender and Well-Being in Europe. Ashgate, Farnham, xvii-xix. ISBN 9780754672647

Harris, Bernard and Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena; Harris, Bernard and Gálvez, Lina and Machado, Helena, eds. (2009) Summary and Conclusions : Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. In: Gender and Well-Being in Europe. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 267-270. ISBN 9780754672647

Harris, Bernard; Stearns, Peter and Stearns, Peter N., eds. (2008) Charity and charitable organisations. In: Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern World. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780195176322

Harris, Bernard and Bridgen, Paul; Harris, Bernard and Bridgen, Paul, eds. (2007) Introduction : The ‘mixed economy of welfare’ and the historiography of welfare provision. In: Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800. Routledge Studies in Modern History . Routledge, Alphen aan den Rijn, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780415541053

Harris, Bernard; Harris, Bernard and Bridgen, Paul, eds. (2007) Charity and poor relief in England and Wales, circa 1750-1914. In: Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800. Routledge Studies in Modern History . Routledge, Alphen aan den Rijn, pp. 19-42. ISBN 9780415541053

Gorsky, Martin and Harris, Bernard; Borowy, Iris and Gruner, Wolf D., eds. (2005) The measurement of morbidity in interwar Britain : evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society. In: Facing Illness in Troubled Times. Peter Lang AG, New York, pp. 129-164. ISBN 9783631519486

Harris, Bernard; Matthew, Colin, ed. (2004) Alfred Eichholz, 1869-1933. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Harris, Bernard; Blakemore, Colin and Jennett, Sheila, eds. (2003) Anthropometry. In: The Oxford Companion to the Body. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198524038

Harris, Bernard; Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke and Marland, Hilary, eds. (2003) Educational reform, citizenship and the origins of the school medical service. In: Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 85-102. ISBN 9789042010543

Harris, Bernard; Loades, David, ed. (2003) Medicine : hospital provision since 1800. In: Reader’s Guide to British History. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 874-875. ISBN 9781579582425

Harris, Bernard; Loades, David, ed. (2003) Poverty III : poverty and deprivation, 19th and 20th centuries. In: Reader’s Guide to British History. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 1063-1065.

Harris, Bernard; Bradshaw, Jonathan and Sainsbury, Roy, eds. (2000) Seebohm Rowntree and the measurement of poverty, 1899-1951. In: Getting the Measure of Poverty: The Early Legacy of Seebohm Rowntree. Studies in Cash & Care . Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 60-84. ISBN 9780754612896

Harris, Bernard; Kiple, Kenneth and Ornelas, Kriemhild Conneè, eds. (2000) Height and nutrition. In: The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1427-1438. ISBN 9780521402149

Harris, Bernard; Harris, Bernard and Waltraud, Ernst, eds. (1999) Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. In: Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960. Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine . Routledge, London, pp. 189-217. ISBN 9780415181525

Harris, Bernard; Komlos, John and Baten, Jörg, eds. (1998) Gender, height and mortality in England and Wales in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In: The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective. Franz Steiner Verlag, DEU, pp. 413-448. ISBN 9783515072205

Floud, Roderick and Harris, Bernard; Steckel, Richard. H. and Floud, Roderick, eds. (1997) Health, height and welfare in Britain 1700-1980. In: Health and Welfare during Industrialization. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 91-126. ISBN 9780226771564

Harris, Bernard; Komlos, John, ed. (1994) The height of schoolchildren in Britain 1900-1950. In: Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 25-38. ISBN 9780226450926

Harris, Bernard; Johnson, Paul, ed. (1994) Unemployment and the dole in interwar Britain. In: Twentieth-Century Britain. Longman, New York, pp. 203-220.

Harris, Bernard; Barry, Jonathan and Jones, Colin, eds. (1991) Government and charity in the distressed mining areas of England and Wales, 1928-30. In: Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State. Routledge, London, pp. 207-224. ISBN 9780415111362

Harris, Bernard; Aerts, Erik and Eichengreen, B, eds. (1990) Voluntary action and unemployment : charity in the South Wales coalfield between the wars. In: Unemployment and Underemployment in Historical Perspective. Studies in Social and Economic History . Leuven University Press, BEL, pp. 101-110.

Harris, Bernard; Eichengreen, Barry and Hatton, T. J., eds. (1988) Unemployment, insurance and health in interwar Britain. In: Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective. NATO ASI Series . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Alphen aan den Rijn, pp. 149-183. ISBN 9789401077583

Book

Floud, Roderick and Fogel, Robert and Harris, Bernard and Hong, Sok Chul (2011) The Changing Body : Health, Nutrition and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700. New Approaches to Economic and Social History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521705615

Harris, Bernard (2004) The Origins of the British Welfare State : Society, State and Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Basingstoke. ISBN 9780333649985

Harris, Bernard (1995) Health of the Schoolchild : A History of the School Medical Service in England and Wales, 1908-74. Open University Press, Milton Keynes. ISBN 9780335099948

Review

Harris, Bernard (2019) Review of Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen and Peter Starke, eds., Warfare and welfare: military conflict and welfare state development in western countries, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii+481. ISBN: 978-0-19-877959-9. [Review]

Harris, Bernard (1999) Household, family and welfare: past, present and future. [Review]

Harris, Bernard (1999) The social history of health and healing. [Review]

Monograph

Harris, Bernard and Floud, Roderick and Hong, Sok Chul (2014) Food for thought : comparing estimates of food availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914. Preprint / Working Paper. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.

Floud, Roderick and Fogel Robert, W. and Harris, Bernard and Hong, Sok Chul (2011) Diet, health and work intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914. Preprint / Working Paper. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.

Floud, Roderick and Harris, Bernard (1996) Health, Height and Welfare : Britain 1700-1980. Preprint / Working Paper. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge.