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.

Emma Diduch receives Roger Schofield Award

16th September, 2025

 

Congratulations to Campop PhD student Emma Diduch, who received the Roger Schofield Award for the best paper presented by a young demographer at the European Society of Historical Demography Conference in Bologna. The paper was titled 'Work, Marriage, and Motherhood in Derbyshire: Event History Analysis of Women's Employment and Fertility Histories, 1881-1911', and uses a split-population (cure) model to analyse parity progression ratios and median birth intervals, comparing the occupations of both husband and wife.

60 things you didn't know...

7th August, 2025

 

Campop has completed its run of 60 blog posts in a year to celebrate its 60th anniversary. We've covered a wide variety of topics surrounding family, marriage, work, and death from the middle ages to the present, which will remain available to read on the Campop website. And watch out for further (more occasional) posts to be published in the same place!