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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Funding

2021

AHRC/ESRC: Engaging the Public with Census 2021: a project by schools and for schools

2020-2023

ESRC: Britain's first demographic transition: an integrated geography. £996,687 (FEC)

2020

Creative Encounters, Cambridge Very Shorts Award.

2018-2022

AHRC DTP: PhD studentship: Infant mortality decline in London.

2018-2021

ESRC: Migration, Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Change, England and Wales 1851-1911

2018

Carnevali Small Grants Research Scheme (Economic History Society): Mapping Ipswich pilot project.

2017

Isaac Newton Trust (University of Cambridge): An Atlas of Victorian Fertility.

2017

Cambridge Humanities Small Grants Scheme: An Atlas of Victorian Fertility – the 1871 census.

2015-2018

ESRC: An Atlas of Fertility Decline in England and Wales, 1850-1911. £720,809 (FEC).

2010-2012

Leverhulme Trust: Housing, mobility and the measurement of child health from the 1911 Irish census. £136,224.

2009-2014

ESRC PhD studentship: Leaving home and migrating in nineteenth-century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books (CEBs)

2007-2008

Wellcome Trust: Doctors, deaths, diagnoses and data: a comparative study of the medical certification of cause of death in nineteenth-century Scotland. £60,077.

2003-2006

ESRC: Determining the demography of Victorian Scotland through record linkage. £352,000.

Data

The more recent projects (particularly Atlas of Victorian Fertility and Britain's First Demographic Transition) use an enhanced version of data from Schürer, K. and Higgs, E. (2014). Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM), 1851-1911. [data collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor]. SN: 7481, doi:10.5255/UKDA-SN-7481-1.

For other data used, please see individual project pages.

Image credit: Elephant and Castle, Southwark, in the late 19th century. Illustration for Wonderful London by St John Adcock (Fleetway, c. 1930). Reproduced by permission of Look and Learn History Picture Library www.lookandlearn.com