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Current research at HPSS
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Research projects
- Demographic behaviour in intra- and extra-mural London parishes c.1650-1750
- Doctors, deaths, diagnoses and data: a comparative study of the medical certification of cause of death in nineteenth century Scotland
- English peasants and the provision of civil justice, 1275-1400
- English welfare practices and their demographic correlates c.1600-1834
- The historical geography of the English Hospital 1100-1655
- Longevity changes and their determinants in England and her European neighbours c.1600-1900
- Mortality change in Shanghai since c.1950
- The occupational structure of Britain 1379-1911
- The population history of England 1000-1540
- Determining the demography of Victorian Scotland through record linkage
- Private Law and Medieval Village Society: Personal Actions in Manor Courts, c.1250-c.1350
- Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London
- The occupational context of family formation in England, c.1600-1850
- The nature of parochial registration in England, 1538-1837
Post-doctoral research projects
- The origins and significance of Catalan industrialisation, c.1680-1829
- The contribution of the National Health Service to gains in quality adjusted life expectancy: lessons from the past and implications for the future
- Bridging the gap: new evidence for mortality and life expectancy spanning late medieval and early modern England.
Doctoral research projects
- Census-taking and political economy in Britain, c. 1790-1840
- Female testators and their possessions in East Anglia, 1400-1530
- Measuring infant and maternal health in late-Georgian Northern England
- Studying the Stayers - an investigation of the immobile population of Long Melford, Suffolk 1550-1861
- An occupational analysis of the worsted industry, c.1700-1851. A study of de-industrialization in East Anglia and Devon and the rise of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
- Dividing the day: Gender, work and time-use in 18th and 19th century Britain
- The emergence of agrarian capitalism in early modern England.