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Toxic torts: arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and the legal geographies of responsibility (2006)
Journal Article
Atkins, P., Hassan, M., & Dunn, C. (2006). Toxic torts: arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and the legal geographies of responsibility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(3), 272-285. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00209.x

Tubewells have been so popular in rural Bangladesh that about 12 million have been installed, yielding water that is convenient, free and low in bacteria. But every fourth well is polluted with arsenic, with the result that millions of people are exp... Read More about Toxic torts: arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and the legal geographies of responsibility.

Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941 (2005)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2005). Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The Economic History Review, 58(1), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00298.x

Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The introduction of school milk in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century was a relatively slow process. This article seeks to understand state and private sector... Read More about Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941.

The Milk in Schools Scheme, 1934-45: 'nationalization' and resistance (2005)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2005). The Milk in Schools Scheme, 1934-45: 'nationalization' and resistance. History of Education, 34(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760042000315291

In October 1934 the National Government took over what had previously been a commercial initiative to encourage milk‐drinking in schools. By the outbreak of war the Milk in Schools Scheme had reached 87 per cent of elementary schools in England and W... Read More about The Milk in Schools Scheme, 1934-45: 'nationalization' and resistance.

The Glasgow case: meat, disease and regulation, 1889-1924 (2004)
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Atkins, P. (2004). The Glasgow case: meat, disease and regulation, 1889-1924. Agricultural History Review, 52(2), 161-182

Contemporary estimates indicate that a substantial proportion of the indigenous beef consumed in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came from tuberculous animals. If properly cooked, this meat presented less of a risk to hum... Read More about The Glasgow case: meat, disease and regulation, 1889-1924.

Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940 (2003)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2003). Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940. Anthropology of food, 2,

My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the im... Read More about Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940.

Where angels fear to tread? Mapping women and men in India (1997)
Journal Article
Kumar, N., Raju, S., Atkins, P., & Townsend, J. (1997). Where angels fear to tread? Mapping women and men in India. Environment and Planning A, 29(12), 2207-2215. https://doi.org/10.1068/a292207

The authors have produced the Atlas of Women and Men in India, using material from the 1991 Census, mainly at district level. The Atlas may be unacceptable to Indian geographers because it seeks to question the authority of numerical data and of maps... Read More about Where angels fear to tread? Mapping women and men in India.

The Maltese food system and the Mediterranean (1997)
Journal Article
Gastoni, M., & Atkins, P. (1997). The Maltese food system and the Mediterranean. GeoJournal, 41(2), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1006880723291

The paper seeks to understand the Maltese food system in the context of its history and its geographical position within a broad Mediterranean setting of food production, processing, marketing and consumption. Although it has characteristics in commo... Read More about The Maltese food system and the Mediterranean.

How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London (1993)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (1993). How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London. Journal of Historical Geography, 19(3), 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1006/jhge.1993.1017

The West End of London was a long-lived élite residential district. One feature which helped to establish its privileged character was the protection of certain key boundaries with barriers impermeable to non-residential traffic. Public dislike of re... Read More about How the West End has won: the struggle to remove street barriers in Victorian London.

White poison? the social consequences of milk consumption, 1850–1930 (1992)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (1992). White poison? the social consequences of milk consumption, 1850–1930. Social History of Medicine, 5(2), 207-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.2.207

This paper seeks to adduce evidence on the social consequences of milk consumption in the period 1850–1930. It is shown that the poor quality of supply partly resulted from the nature of the marketing system, with adulteration and the use of chemical... Read More about White poison? the social consequences of milk consumption, 1850–1930.

The spatial configuration of class solidarity in London's West End, 1792-1939 (1990)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (1990). The spatial configuration of class solidarity in London's West End, 1792-1939. Urban History, 17, 35-65. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926800014346

For more than two hundred years after the Glorious Revolution, the British aristocracy gained control of ‘every aspect of government, both executive and legislative. They dominated the Cabinet, the highest ranks of the armed forces, the civil service... Read More about The spatial configuration of class solidarity in London's West End, 1792-1939.