This article considers new technologies and fatal accident rates in European coal mining from 1850 to 1900. Its contributions are twofold: to recover and emphasize improvements in small-scale mine ...

Bloodletting was a practice once carried out to treat a wide range of diseases and medical conditions. Baron Charles Louis Heurteloup (1793-1864) invented this device to replicate the blood-sucking ...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for ...