The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Research seminar series run by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop).

Seminars will take place in person in the Geography Department and online via Microsoft Teams at 4:00pm.

The support of the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History) is gratefully acknowledged.

Convenors: Romola Davenport (rjd23@cam.ac.uk), Alice Reid (amr1001@cam.ac.uk), Hannaliis Jaadla (hj309@cam.ac.uk), and Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk).

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# Wednesday 7th May 2025, 4.00pm - Hampton Gaddy (LSE)

Challenges in estimating historical crisis mortality: spatial heterogeneity, endogenous incompleteness, sample size, and ad hoc methods.​

Venue: Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Abstract not available

# Wednesday 21st May 2025, 4.00pm - Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)​

The public speaks back: health communication in Britain, 1980s-2020.​

Venue: Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Abstract not available

# Wednesday 11th June 2025, 4.00pm - Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS de Lyon)​

Violence and emigration; evidence from early modern Corsica.​

Venue: Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site

Abstract not available

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5:15 pm in Room 5 of the History Faculty. All are welcome, either in person or online.

The Core seminar combines multiple seminars: Medieval Economic and Social History; Early Modern Economic and
Social History; Modern Economic and Social History and Policy; African Economic History; Global Economic History;
Quantitative History; Financial History; the Centre for History and Economics; and the Cambridge Group for the
History of Population and Social Structure. Their specialist seminar programmes do not run in Michaelmas term, but
each meets separately again in the Lent and (sometimes) Easter terms.

Seminar convenors: Amy Erickson (ale25@cam.ac.uk), Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk), Emily Chung (evc28@cam.ac.uk), Guillaume Proffit (gpap3@cam.ac.uk)

Economic and Social History at Cambridge: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk

There are no forthcoming seminars at present. Please check back here later.

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Quantitative History Seminar

Supported by the Centre for History and Economics and the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History).

The seminar meets on Wednesdays at 1.15pm in the Faculty of History (Room 12) and online on Teams.
Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 1.00pm.

Convenors: Aleksandra Dul (amd217@cam.ac.uk), Alexis Litvine (adl38), Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk)

There are no forthcoming seminars at present. Please check back here later.

You may wish to view the archive of previous seminars.

Additional seminars of interest to Campop members

Additional seminars of interest to Campop members.

View the archive of previous seminars.

# Tuesday 29th April 2025, 1.00pm - Alex Langstaff, New York University

Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s

Venue: History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor)

Abstract not available

# Tuesday 27th May 2025, 1.00pm - Kyle Zarif, Yale University

The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain

Venue: History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor)

Abstract not available