1. Was There a Whitehall Effect in the UK in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries? • Nicola Shelton, UCL.

2. The Human Cost of Inequality: Race Differentials across Time and Space in Child Mortality in the United States, 1850-1940 • J. David Hacker, University of Minnesota; Jonas Helgertz, Lund University; Richard L. Steckel, The Ohio State University; Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University.

3. Religion and Child Death in Early-Twentieth Century Ireland • Michail Raftakis, Department of Statistical Sciences - University of Bologna; Francesco Scalone, Università di Bologna; Lucia Pozzi, Università degli Studi di Sassari; Liam Kennedy, Queen's University of Belfast.

4. The New Poor Law and the Health of the Population of England and Wales • Graham Mooney, Johns Hopkins University; Gabriel Mesevage, King’s College London; David Green, Kings College London; Simon R.S. Szreter, University of Cambridge.