The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Funding for the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911
We gratefully acknowledge the following grants:
| 2019-2020 | Keynes Fund: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), Dan Bogart (UC Irvine - CI), Transport, policy, and the British industrial revolution, 1680-1911, £85k. |
| 2019 | Folger Library Fellowship: Amy Erickson, March 2019, $3,5k. |
| 2019 | Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Early Career Fellowship: Amy Erickson, Easter 2019, £1k. |
| 2019 | Inspiring London Through Culture: Amy Erickson, May-October 2019, £10k. |
| 2019 | Arts & Humanities Impact Fund: Amy Erickson, June-October 2019, £10k. |
| 2019 |
Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), Occupational Structure and Industrialisation in Comparative Perspective, £18,5k. |
| 2018-2019 | Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account Impact Fund: Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Romola Davenport, Interactive online resources for economic and social history and historical geography in schools, £15k. |
| 2018-2019 | Large Bid Support, University of Cambridge: Leigh Shaw-Taylor, £10k. |
| 2018-2019 | Joint Usage and Research Center Programs at Hitotsubashi University: Chiaki Yamamoto and Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Comparative study on labour force participation rates: effects of family formation patterns and occupational structures in Japan and Britain, 1,9m Yen (c.£13k). |
| 2018 | British Academy, Visiting Professorship, Osamu Saito, August-November 2018, £27k. |
| 2017-2018 |
Isaac Newton Trust: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), Paul Warde and E.A. Wrigley (CIs), Transport, energy and urbanization c.1670-1911, £57k. |
| 2017 | Economic History Society (£2k), Ellen McArthur Trust (£1k): Leigh Shaw-Taylor for European Network for Comparative History of Population Geography and Occupational Structure (ENCHPOPGOS), Inaugural Conference, Robinson College, Cambridge, 25th-27th September 2017. |
| 2017 | Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: Romola Davenport (PI), Leigh Shaw-Taylor and E.A. Wrigley (CIs), The pre-census population geography of England and Wales, a pilot study, £18,3k. |
| 2017 | Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Transport and Economic Development in England and Wales 1680-1911, £20k. |
| 2017 | Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: Amy Erickson, The male occupational structure of London and Middlesex 1550-1700, £19k. |
| 2017 | Keynes Fund, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge: Toke Aidt (PI), Romola Davenport and Leigh Shaw-Taylor (CIs), Market Failures and State Successes in Public Health and Highways 1830-1911, £50k (about £6k of which relates to the Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911 research program.) |
| 2017 | Joint Research and Usage Centre Program grant, Hitotsubashi University: Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Petty's Law Reconsidered. Economic Development and Changing Sectoral shares of the Labour Force, 600k Yen (c.£3,6k.) |
| 2016-2021 | European Research Council Starting Grant: M. Erdem Kabadayi (PI), Industrialisation and Urban Growth from the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey in a Comparative Perspective, 1850-2000. Leigh Shaw-Taylor has a consultancy role (value to Cambridge approx. £5k per year.) |
| 2016-2017 |
Economic History Society, Carnevali Small Research Grants Scheme: Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster - PI) and Amy Erickson, A digitised scholarly edition and an open access database Thomas Turner and his world, c.1750-1790, £4,8k. |
| 2016 | Cambridge Humanities Research Grant: Amy Erickson, Occupations and employment relations in 18th-century London, £20k. |
| 2014-2017 |
The Leverhulme Trust: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A. Wrigley and Dan Bogart (UC Irvine) (CIs), Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development c.1670-1911, £278k. |
| 2014-2016 | Higher Education Impact Fund: Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Cambridge e-Resources for teaching economic history and historical economic geography in secondary schools, £34k. |
| 2012-2013 | British Academy, Mid-Career Fellowship, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, The Occupational Structure of Britain and its Comparative Context 1700-1911, £115k. |
| 2011-2013 |
British Academy / Leverhulme Small Grant: Amy Erickson, Pin makers, Adam Smith and the division of labour, £7.4k. |
| 2011-2012 | The Leverhulme Trust, Emeritus Fellowship, E.A. Wrigley, Parish-level population estimates for England and Wales prior to the nineteenth century, £19k. |
| 2010 | British Academy Conference Support: £10k awarded to Amy Erickson together with small grants from the Economic History Society, Ellen McArthur and G.M. Trevelyan Funds for Women's Work in Early Modern Europe, Jesus College, Cambridge, 23-24 September. |
| 2009-2012 | Economic and Social Research Council grant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A. Wrigley (CI), The Occupational Structure of Nineteenth Century Britain, £767k. Grant RES-000-23-1579. Project judged 'outstanding' by the ESRC. |
| 2009-2010 |
The Leverhulme Trust, Visiting Professorship, Osamu Saito, £89k. |
| 2008-2012 | The Leverhulme Trust, Emeritus Fellowship, E.A. Wrigley, Mapping the population geography of England 1761-1881. |
| 2008-2012 | The Leverhulme Trust: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A. Wrigley and R.M. Smith (CIs), The Occupational Structure of England and Wales c.1379-c1729, £505k. |
| 2007-2018 | British Academy Research Project: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A. Wrigley and Amy Erickson (CIs), The Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911, £5k per annum. |
| 2006-2009 | Economic and Social Research Council grant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (PI), E.A. Wrigley (CI), Male Occupational Change and Economic Growth in England 1750 to 1851, £597k. Grant RES 000-23-0131. Project judged 'outstanding' by the ESRC. |