The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
New philanthropic funding for Campop
17th October, 2024
A research project, New Frontiers in Demographic History, led by Simon Szreter and Kevin Schurer, has been supported by a generous donation from Mr Fu Shan. This project will undertake research utilising the Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM), a digitised database of UK censuses 1851-1921.
6th January, 2025
Cambridge's top stories in 2024 included CAMPOP experts busting myths about family, sex, marriage and work in English history.
Sex before marriage was unusual in the past – myth! The rich have always outlived the poor – myth!
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) have busted some of the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages, challenging assumptions about everything from life expectancy to migration.
Transport and urban growth in the First Industrial Revolution
19th December, 2024
The Industrial Revolution led to dramatic economic changes which persist to the present day. A new paper from Eduard J Alvarez-Palau, Dan Bogart, Max Satchell, and Leigh Shaw-Taylor, focuses on urban areas in England and Wales - the birthplace of the First Industrial Revolution - and investigates the role of early transport improvements, such as improvements to rivers and roads, building canals, and reducing sailing costs.
17th September, 2024
Congratulations to Campop PhD student Emily Chung, who has been awarded the Student Prize for Pre-1900 Topics at the 2024 European Association of Urban Historians Conference in Ostrava. Emily is currently writing up a short version of her conference paper for the Campop blog.
60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
11th July, 2024
Launching on World Population Day (and also, by coincidence, our 60th anniversary): a new blog from the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure busts some of the biggest myths about life in England from the Middle Ages to today. New blog posts challenge common assumptions about everything, from sex before marriage to migration and the health/wealth gap.
Departmental links
- 4th February 2025:
Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain. Details… - 5th February 2025:
People, places, and peers - fertility trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881-1911. . Details… - 13th February 2025:
What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?. Details… - 19th February 2025:
Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.. Details… - 27th February 2025:
Title to be confirmed. Details… - 5th March 2025:
Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.. Details… - 13th March 2025:
Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800. Details… - 18th March 2025:
Corrective violence and labour discipline in early modern England. Details… - 19th March 2025:
Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.. Details… - 30th April 2025:
Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s. Details… - 3rd June 2025:
The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain. Details…