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

How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

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

Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden

Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

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

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

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

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

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

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared

Richard Smith (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône, South of France)

Isabelle Séguy (French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines

Jean-Pascal Bassino (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon; Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland

Note start time of 5pm

Alan Fernihough (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Eli Nomes (University of Leuven).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20

Frances Richardson (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

Quantitative History Seminar

The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century

Piotr Koryś (University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon

James Boyd (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland

Frank Geary and Tom Stark.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations Part II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations Part I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911

James Perry (Lancaster).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain

Francisco Beltrán Tapia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Drainage and water supply in 18th century London

Carry van Lieshout (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Treaty of Westminster: a turning point for the Anglo Iberian trade in the late 15th century?

Ana Avino-de-Pablo (Ghent).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

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

Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs

Diego Carnevale (Birkbeck).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden

Kathryn Gary (Lund University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913

Walter Jansson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Family structure and the admission of children to the workhouse in post-famine Ireland

Simon Gallagher (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 14 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Welfare and industrial conflict in the Italian automobile industry, 1968-1975

Niccolò Serri (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 07 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Eating and drinking as a medieval peasant. Innovations in table manners in late medieval rural Valencia

Luis Almenar (University of Valencia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 31 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Does sterilised central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rate? The case of the British Exchange Equalisation Account, 1952-1972

Alain Naef (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 17 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Patterns of manorial office holding at late medieval and early modern Little Downham, 1300-1600

Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 10 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression

Cristiano Ristuccia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes

Frederik Pedersen (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia

Pavla Jirkova (CERGE-EI, Prague).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition

Joseph Molitoris (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Anglo-American productivity differentials once again

Mark Thomas (University of Virginia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930

Professor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

Leslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 29 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

Daniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

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

A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century

Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe

Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)

Dr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1700-1850

Sebastian Keibek (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Beveridge calling: The social insurance and allied services and the Mediterranean welfare model, 1942-1950s

Paco Ruzzante (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

What was linen? Flax and hemp at home and work in 18th-century England

Alice Dolan (Institute of Historical Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The local and transnational organisation of the nascent Newfoundland dry cod trade, 1550-1650

Josh Ivinson (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Land market and the long 12th century transformation in Foligno county

Nikita Dmtriev (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

A comparative analysis of payday lending in America and Britain, 1900-1930s

Craig McMahon (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900

Partha Shil (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England

Toby Salisbury (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Adapting to workplace technological change over the long run: Evidence from US longitudinal data

Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Land and credit in the asset allocations of the Jews in late 14th-century Zaragoza

Mike Schraer (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name?

Dr Isabelle Devos (Ghent University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919

Dr Eric Schneider (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Railways and population: spatial interactions

Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.

Eduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

Dr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Alexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Ellen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression

Dr Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

Revisiting the Urban Graveyard Debate: An analysis of mortality differences between natives and migrants in North-Western European port cities: Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1930

Dr Paul Puschmann (University of Leuven).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900

Hannaliis Jaadla (Tallinn University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process

Marta Musso (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 January 2015, 12:30-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain

Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England

Hillary Taylor (Yale).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 December 2014, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Fiscal-Military State and the Land Tax - Observations from Kent and London

Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Ideal vs Reality? The Ideal of the Breadwinner-Homemaker Household in Industrializing Regions in the Netherlands, ca. 1890

Corinne Boter (Wageningen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 17 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 03 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent

Imogen Wedd (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The impact of mechanization upon female and male employment in the English textile industry, circa 1780-1851

Note change of speaker

Keith Sugden (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

Carolyn Dougherty (York).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

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

Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources

Stefan Öberg (University of Gothenburg).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 June 2014, 13:00-14:15

Quantitative History Seminar

Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective

Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?

Dr Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain

Dr Antonio Cámara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion? 

Professor M. Erdem Kabadayi (Istanbul Bilgi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 05 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834

Dr Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 April 2014, 13:00-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

What can autobiographies tell us about women's time-use in 19th century England?

Sophie McGeevor (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 10 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England

Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 03 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852

Professor Janet McCalman and Dr Rebecca Kippen (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

"The Dust Was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl

Vellore Arti (Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Dr Mohamed Saleh (University of Toulouse).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 10 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The transformation of the costs of children and its impact on reproductive behaviour: a comparative analysis of the second demographic transition in Switzerland

Caroline Rusterholtz (University of Fribourg).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 03 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Probate records as a source of occupational information

Sebastian Keibek (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

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

Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 January 2014, 13:00-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Office holding, social status and stability in a small town, 1661-1861

Lyn Boothman (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1928-31

Simon Abernethy (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The multiplicitous networks of the East India Company, 1599-1603

Edmond Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Measuring Immigrant Crime in London: The Irish 1801-1820

Adam Crymble (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

17th & 18th century land taxes in England; 'hardly changed since the middle ages' or cutting edge technology. A Kent case study

Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Female employment in the nineteenth century censuses: Methods, pitfalls, and prostitutes

Ellen Potter (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

'Kin-servant' in 1881 British Census Enumerators' Books: Actual Work or Random Enumeration

Xuesheng You (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914

Anne Hanley (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 14 October 2013, 13:00-14:00