The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
New mortality and migration data in PopulationsPast.org
13th March, 2026
PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates! This extension of PopulationsPast.org - an online interactive atlas of Victorian and Edwardian population produced by Campop at the Department of Geography - adds new dimensions to the existing demographic and socio-economic data.
The new data allows detailed exploration of the geography of mortality and movement in late 19th and early 20th century England, Wales, and Scotland.
Call for Papers: conference on historical and modern sanitary programmes
24th February, 2026
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions – the long view. Cambridge, 15-16 June 2026.
This conference invites papers that address WaSH interventions in comparative and/or historical contexts, using epidemiological, genomic, evolutionary, historical and other approaches.
Workshop announcement: An informal introduction to formal demography
16th December, 2025
Applications are invited for a forthcoming workshop (23-27 March 2026) sponsored by The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop) and the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS). This week-long mini-course will take place at Cambridge University, and will focus on formal demographic models and methods. Application deadline: 19 January 2026.
26th November, 2025
Applications are open for a two-week Summer School on 'Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility', to be held at University of Cambridge from 6-17 July 2026. The course is hosted by Campop and co-organised with the European Society of Historical Demography (ESHD) and COST-Action GREATLEAP. Application deadline: 2 February 2026.
21st October, 2025
Campop PhD student Emily Chung has her research spotlighted in The Guardian. By mapping digitised census data, Emily has shown that Engels' blistering depictions of segregation in industrial Manchester - often taken by historians at face value - may in fact have been exaggerated. Emily's research is also featured in a Campop blog post.
Related links
- 16th October 2006:
Household and plague in early modern Italy. Details… - 30th October 2006:
Widows, wills and economic assets in pre-industrial Britain. Details… - 13th November 2006:
Cities, markets and the sea: Explaining the ups and downs of height in early nineteenth century England and Wales. Details… - 27th November 2006:
Gender inequality and change in stature in India during the Twentieth Century. Details… - 7th February 2011:
Contemporary perceptions of international migrants in England and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries. Details… - 21st February 2011:
English Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages. Details… - 7th March 2011:
Does Gibratâs Law hold for all times and all places? A study of the growth of British cities prior to 1913. Details… - 16th May 2011:
Illusions of exactness: counting Scotland's population before 1801. Details… - 17th October 2011:
"Go --West-- North-East Young Man!" Male & Female Migration in 1881. Details… - 7th November 2011:
Women and Children First: A Brief Look at Working Class Women and Children Commuters in London in the 1890s and 1900s. Details… - 28th November 2011:
The Revolt in Rural Cambridgeshire in 1381. Details… - 30th January 2012:
The prevalence of venereal diseases in 1913. Who was right? Christabel Pankhurst or the Royal Commission?. Details… - 6th February 2012:
Studying the Stayers: occupation, kin links and stability. Details… - 13th February 2012:
âIndustrialisation and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community, c. 1600-1684â. Details… - 27th February 2012:
Schools of Industry and Habits of Industriousness: Making childhood pay in the early Nineteenth Century. Details… - More seminars…
