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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.

The Empire Marketing Board (2005)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2005). The Empire Marketing Board. In D. Oddy, & L. Petráňová (Eds.), The diffusion of food culture in Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present day (248-255). Academia Press

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.

Edmund Charles Tisdall (1824-1892). (2004)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2004). Edmund Charles Tisdall (1824-1892). In C. Matthew (Ed.), New Dictionary of National Biography (839-840). Oxford University Press

Sir William Price (1865-1938). (2004)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2004). Sir William Price (1865-1938). In C. Matthew (Ed.), New Dictionary of National Biography (325-326). Oxford University Press

The Glasgow case: meat, disease and regulation, 1889-1924 (2004)
Journal Article
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.

Milk consumption and tuberculosis in Britain, 1850-1950 (2000)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P. (2000). Milk consumption and tuberculosis in Britain, 1850-1950. In A. Fenton (Ed.), Order and disorder : the health implications of eating and drinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (83-95). Tuckwell Press

People, Land and Time. (1998)
Book
Atkins, P., Simmons, I., & Roberts, B. (1998). People, Land and Time. Arnold