Launch of Economies Past website
5th April, 2024
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure has launched a new interactive website www.economiespast.org which allows user to map occupational structure from 1600-1911 and 2011.
RGS podcast with Prof Alice Reid
8th March, 2024
The Royal Geographical Society has published a podcast featuring Professor Alice Reid, who talks about how fertility, mortality and health affected changes in the UK's population in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The RGS have also produced associated teaching materials for Key Stage 4.
Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London
22nd February, 2024
A new article by Amy Erickson, 'Wealthy businesswomen, marriage and succession in eighteenth-century London' is published in Business History 66:1 (2024), on open access.
It starts from the business cards of individual women, and traces them over their lifespan. At this social level, marriage appears to have had no impact on women's business careers, and widows maintained proprietorship of the joint enterprises they had run with their husbands for decades after their sons' majority.
We are very pleased to announce that Ying Dai, a research associate at Campop, has been awarded the Narada Foundation Best Research Paper on Quantitative History 2nd prize. Ying's paper was selected from among the fifty speakers at the 9th International Symposium on Quantitative History in Shanghai in July 2023.
Professor Sir Tony Wrigley FBA (17 Aug 1931 – 25 Feb 2022)
16th March, 2022
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir Tony Wrigley.
A leading scholar in a number of different social science disciplines and President of the British Academy, his first academic post was in the Geography Department and in 1964 he founded, with Peter Laslett, The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and transformed knowledge of British population in the pre-industrial era. He remained actively involved in Campop throughout his career and into his retirement, and we will miss his gentle presence at coffee and his kindly encouragement as well as his considerable intellectual contributions.
A full obituary is available.
Departmental links
- 24th April 2024:
The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison. Details… - 25th April 2024:
'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?). Details… - 1st May 2024:
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony . Details… - 2nd May 2024:
Title to be confirmed. Details… - 8th May 2024:
Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911. Details… - 9th May 2024:
Canoes and capitalism. Details… - 15th May 2024:
Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales . Details… - 16th May 2024:
Title to be confirmed. Details… - 22nd May 2024:
Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate. Details… - 23rd May 2024:
Title to be confirmed. Details… - 29th May 2024:
Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales . Details… - 5th June 2024:
TBC. Details…