Award for Ying Dai

7th November, 2023

 

We are very pleased to announce that Ying Dai, a research associate at Campop, has been awarded the Narada Foundation Best Research Paper on Quantitative History 2^nd prize. Ying's paper was selected from among the fifty speakers at the 9^th International Symposium on Quantitative History in Shanghai in July 2023.

Professor Sir Tony Wrigley FBA (17 Aug 1931 – 25 Feb 2022)

16th March, 2022

 

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir Tony Wrigley.

A leading scholar in a number of different social science disciplines and President of the British Academy, his first academic post was in the Geography Department and in 1964 he founded, with Peter Laslett, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and transformed knowledge of British population in the pre-industrial era. He remained actively involved in Campop throughout his career and into his retirement, and we will miss his gentle presence at coffee and his kindly encouragement as well as his considerable intellectual contributions.

A full obituary is available.

Dr Alice Reid elected President of the British Society for Population Studies

30th September, 2021

 

Congratulations to Dr Alice Reid who has been elected President of the
British Society for Population Studies.

The enduring geography of mortality and its social causes

7th July, 2021

 

"If you had a map of Covid's biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar" said Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer of England and Wales, recently. The BBC interviewed Alice Reid and used data from Populations Past, her interactive website on Victorian and Edwardian population, for a news article on the endurance of patterns in mortality and its social causes.

Did industrialisation really raise mortality rates in English cities?

24th June, 2021

 

And why is this question so difficult to answer? A new paper by Romola Davenport, published in a special issue on health and industrialisation in the International Journal of Paleopathology, provides a succinct summary of the state of historical knowledge about urban mortality patterns during the Industrial Revolution and highlights where collaborations between archaeologists and historians are vital to new understanding.