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Economic History

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#75

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Olive Checkland's Degrees

PhD History University of Sussex
Masters History University of Sussex
Bachelors History University of Sussex

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According to Wikipedia, Olive Edith Checkland was an English historian and writer who specialised in post-19th century cultural, economic and social relationships between Japan and the United Kingdom. After enrolling on a geography degree at the University of Birmingham, she assisted her husband Sydney Checkland in forming the University of Glasgow's School of Economic History and the couple edited a republication of the English Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and she worked alone in researching the Scottish Poor Laws. As associate director of 19th-century East Asians, Checkland wrote five entries for Oxford University Press' Dictionary of National Biography.

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Olive Checkland's Published Works

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Philanthropy in Victorian Scotland: Social Welfare and the Voluntary Principle. (1981) (62)
The working class in Glasgow, 1750-1914 (1988) (23)
Industry and ethos: Scotland, 1832-1914 (1984) (18)
Japan and Britain after 1859: Creating Cultural Bridges (2002) (16)
Health Care As Social History: The Glasgow Case (1982) (14)
Humanitarianism and the Emperor's Japan. (1994) (13)
Humanitarianism and the Emperor's Japan, 1877-1977 (1993) (11)
Social Class in Scotland: Past and Present. (1977) (7)
Housing Policy: The Formative Years - A Review Article (1975) (7)
Perspectives in Scottish Social History: Essays in Honour of Rosalind Mitchison. (1989) (7)
The Economic Development of Modern Scotland, 1950-1980. (1985) (5)
Pacific Banking, 1859-1959: East Meets West (1994) (5)
The Iwakura Mission in Britain, 1872 (1998) (3)
Pacific Banking, 1859–1959 (1994) (3)
Engineers for Lighthouses, Railways, Telegraphs and Mines (1989) (2)
German Prisoners of War, 1914–18 (1994) (2)
Japanese whisky, Scotch blend : Masataka Taketsuru, the Japanese whisky king and Rita, his Scotch wife (1998) (2)
Juichi Soyeda, 1864–1929: A Chequered Banking Career (1994) (2)
The Red Cross in Japan (1994) (1)
Japanese Life in Britain (1989) (1)
Bakumatsu and Meiji: Studies in Japans Economic and Social History (1982) (1)
Richard Henry Brunton and the Japan Lights 1868–1876, a brilliant and abrasive engineer (1991) (1)
Collected travel writings of Isabella Bird (1997) (1)
Ultimate Weapons, Drugs and Disease (1994) (0)
In the Emperor’s Name (1994) (0)
Diplomats and Consuls (1989) (0)
Exhibitions, Designers and Architects (1989) (0)
Educational and Technological Exchange in 19th Century Asia (1989) (0)
British Life in Japan (1989) (0)
United States (1992) (0)
ALEC CAIRNCROSS, Living with the Century Aberdour, iynx, Countess of Moray's, Fife KY3 OSY, 1999, pp.xvi + 320, £25 (1999) (0)
The Face of War is the Face of Death (1994) (0)
JACQUELINE JENKINSON, Scottish Medical Societies 1731-1939: Their History and Records. (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 237, £25.00). (1994) (0)
Networks, Commercial and Academic (1989) (0)
Licencers and Licensees (1989) (0)
United States (1989) (0)
The Makers and Operators of Ships (1989) (0)
Prisoners in Travail (1994) (0)
The Iwakura Mission (1989) (0)
Towards an Educational Philosophy (1989) (0)
Russian Prisoners of War in Japan, 1904–5 (1994) (0)
Shame and the War Prisoner (1994) (0)
Traders and Bankers (1989) (0)
The ‘Emperor’s Children’: Army and Navy Health Care (1994) (0)
In the Shipyards (1989) (0)
A Copartnery: On Japanese Terms? (1989) (0)
The Red Cross and Health Care for the Nation (1994) (0)
United States (1986) (0)
DAVID J. JEREMY (ed.), International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan and the USA, 1700-1914. (Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1991, pp. xiii and 253, £45.00). (1992) (0)
United States (1989) (0)
Keeping the Humanitarian Flame Alight (1994) (0)
Japan, Humanitarian World Leader, 1894–1905 (1994) (0)
Educators for Engineers (1989) (0)
LINDA MAHOOD, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century. (London, Routledge, 1990, pp. ix and 205, £25.00). (1991) (0)

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