New mortality and migration data in PopulationsPast.org

13th March, 2026

 

PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates! This extension of PopulationsPast.org - an online interactive atlas of Victorian and Edwardian population produced by Campop at the Department of Geography - adds new dimensions to the existing demographic and socio-economic data.

The new data allows detailed exploration of the geography of mortality and movement in late 19th and early 20th century England, Wales, and Scotland.

Call for Papers: conference on historical and modern sanitary programmes

24th February, 2026

 

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions – the long view. Cambridge, 15-16 June 2026.

This conference invites papers that address WaSH interventions in comparative and/or historical contexts, using epidemiological, genomic, evolutionary, historical and other approaches.

Workshop announcement: An informal introduction to formal demography

16th December, 2025

 

Applications are invited for a forthcoming workshop (23-27 March 2026) sponsored by The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop) and the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS). This week-long mini-course will take place at Cambridge University, and will focus on formal demographic models and methods. Application deadline: 19 January 2026.

Census Summer School

26th November, 2025

 

Applications are open for a two-week Summer School on 'Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility', to be held at University of Cambridge from 6-17 July 2026. The course is hosted by Campop and co-organised with the European Society of Historical Demography (ESHD) and COST-Action GREATLEAP. Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester

21st October, 2025

 

Campop PhD student Emily Chung has her research spotlighted in The Guardian. By mapping digitised census data, Emily has shown that Engels' blistering depictions of segregation in industrial Manchester - often taken by historians at face value - may in fact have been exaggerated. Emily's research is also featured in a Campop blog post.