The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
The occupational structure of Britain 1379-1911
This research program directed by Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Tony Wrigley aims ultimately to reconstruct the evolution of the occupational structure of Britain from the late medieval period down to the early twentieth century. It has been designated a British Academy Research Project since 2007.
Major funding has been provided by the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Isaac Newton Trust.
- Publications
- Publication plans
- Working papers
- Datasets
- Future plans
- Women's work
- The Online Atlas
- Teaching resources
- Transport and urbanization
- The population geography of England and Wales c.1379-1911
- The Occupational Structure of Nineteenth Century Britain
- Mapping the occupational structure of England and Wales c.1817
- Mapping the economic geography of England in 1851
- Mapping the south-east Midlands c.1820-1881
- Mapping the hundreds of England
- Mapping the geography of English population growth 1761-1841
- Categorising occupations: The primary, secondary, tertiary (PST) System
- People working on the project
- International comparisons
- Project advisory committee
PhD research projects
- Occupational structure of Lower Yangzi River Region, 1736-2010
- Nineteenth Century English Rural Population Mobility and Small Market Towns
- Occupational Structure of Late Imperial China, 1738 – 1899 (Cheng Yang)
- Dividing the day: Gender, work and time-use in 18th and 19th century Britain
- The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1850
- An occupational analysis of the worsted industry, circa 1700-1851. A study of de-industrialization in Norfolk and the rise of the West Riding of Yorkshire
- Women's employment in England and Wales, 1851-1911