Timeline for Did the average height of men in late Victorian England decline due to poor nutrition?
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| Jul 30, 2021 at 1:00 | vote | accept | Lars Bosteen | ||
| Jul 28, 2021 at 8:45 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2021 at 8:24 | comment | added | AcePL | Is it possible that the whole question requires a broader timeframe for better comparison? From what I know the malnourishment started much earlier and it stayed that way for a long time in most of the Europe. Isn't there research saying average Roman Citizen (while it was there still) was of same average height as we are right now? Follow up to that one: it seems that the more specific decline as bracketed by OP seems to coincide with both Industrial Revolution and introducing paper money (John Law anyone?), why just first one seems to be the spanking boy? | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 18:21 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | You've presented an impressive array of data and analysis on how data can be misused/misinterpreted but much of it is well before the late 19th century while the data relevant to the late Victorian era seems to be refuting Clayton & Rowbotham rather than supporting them for the late Victorian period. You correctly point out a time-lag of 25 years (or maybe 20) for heights of soldiers, in which case these shorter soldiers recruited in, say, 1883 were born around 1858 - smack bang in the middle of C & R's period of good health and nutrition. | |
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 16:18 | history | edited | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2018 at 16:02 | history | answered | LаngLаngС | CC BY-SA 4.0 |