Research projects

The projects gathered together here have all been undertaken at Campop, by different but overlapping groups of people. Some are completed, some are ongoing, and some may develop further in the future.

Much of the data used for these projects is derived from the I-CeM project, but some used other transcriptions, or made transcriptions as part of the project.

The projects have been enabled by a variety of funders (see individual projects and acknowledgements page).

Current and recent projects

	Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) The Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) is a collection of individual-level census data for Great Britain covering the period 1851 to 1921. The underlying raw census data have been enhanced through the creation of multiple coded and standardised derived variables which have been specially designed to facilitate comparative analyses over time.
	Britain's first demographic transition This project will produce the first detailed examination of the historical population geography of the whole of Great Britain across the 1851-1901 period.
	An Atlas of Fertility Decline in England and Wales How will a new time series of age-specific fertility measured across geographical and social space inform our understanding of the late nineteenth century demographic transition?
	Birth and death in Ipswich 1871-1910 This work utilises rare individual-level data from the Vaccination Birth and Death Registers of Ipswich, Suffolk, 1871-1910, in conjunction with contemporaneous census information for the town's inhabitants, to conduct in-depth analyses of mortality and fertility in this urban community.
	Housing, mobility and the measurement of child health from the 1911 Irish census Did Belfast families who moved house most often suffer an infant and child mortality penalty, during the first decade of the twentieth century?
	Determining the demography of Victorian Scotland through record linkage What can be learned about changes in Scottish demographic behaviour from linking five decades of Census records to births and deaths?
	Doctors, deaths, diagnoses and data: a comparative study of the medical certification of cause of death in nineteenth century Scotland Did certain doctors working in Victorian Scotland favour particular diagnoses over others, and how did their diagnoses differ from those of lay persons? What are the implications for existing interpretations of changes in causes of death over time, in urban and rural areas?
	Infant and early childhood mortality decline in London, 1870-1929: a spatial and temporal analysis of its patterns, inequalities and policy impacts What can official sources and the archives tell us about infant and child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London? And why did some individuals and areas fare better than others?

Completed projects and PhDs

• Migration, Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Change, England and Wales 1851-1911 (ESRC research project)

Image credit (main image): New Street, Birmingham, c. 1895. Illustration for Pictorial England and Wales (Cassell, c. 1895). Reproduced by permission of Look and Learn History Picture Library www.lookandlearn.com