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Interdisciplinary research group at the University of Cambridge. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/ Follow our blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
📣New blog post alert!📣 Christoph Hess shares his research uncovering the forgotten history of Chinese serfs who picked tea leaves on the mountainous slopes of East China - tea leaves that were then enjoyed in homes across Victorian England. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
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Read about Emily's life-changing move across subjects and continents: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/califor... Emily Chung is a PhD student in History at @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk and @camunicampop.bsky.social, supervised by @pramospinto.bsky.social
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How epidemic disease offers new perspectives on economic history—and vice versa. Honoured to blog for @camunicampop.bsky.social about my new book “Controlling Contagion”: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/11... @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress
"Friedrich Engels 'took creative liberties' with descriptions of class divides in Manchester": @camunicampop.bsky.social PhD student Emily Chung's work featured in @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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📣Out now on #firstview! Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester' #Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246 @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Campop blog #56: >1 in 3 English men in the late 14th C were called John; in 2023 less than 1% of baby boys were given the most popular name, Muhammad. In today's blog Kevin Schurer charts the long evolution of British forenames @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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Now on Early View: 'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'. By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger. @camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @yaleemd.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus o...
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Campop blog #55: Most weddings in the UK take place on Saturdays. @awakelam.bsky.social explains that this is a fairly recent phenomenon, but the rhythms of the working week (as well as costs) have always been important @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
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Campop blog #53: the word 'spinster', like so many words for women, has derogatory implications. Amy Erickson describes its origin in an occupation so ubiquitous for women that it came to be used as a term for any unmarried woman @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhen did spinsters spin? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since...
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Campop blog #51: Are uber/deliveroo workers employees? Bob Bennett discusses changes in self-emploment linked to tax structures, and examines how builders, publicans, sales agents and outworkers (etc) were defined in the past @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeThe struggle to define self-employment « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, a...
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Campop blog #50: In 2021, 76% of UK women with children at home were employed: a century earlier about the same % were engaged in 'home duties'. @awakelam.bsky.social explores patterns and implications from the 1921 census @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeHome Duties in the 1921 Census « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death...
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Campop blog #48: Are Mrs and Miss, for married/unmarried women, relics of a patriarchal system? Amy Erickson explains that Mrs used to denote a woman of status irrespective of marital status. Read the blog for the history of Miss! @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhen Mrs wasn’t married « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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If you don’t know your Miss for your Mrs I strongly suggest you read our new @camunicampop.bsky.social blog by Amy Erickson on the history of these titles. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhen Mrs wasn’t married « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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Great to spot @camunicampop.bsky.social ‘s data used in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
31 of England’s prisons are Victorian. Do they work? – visual investigation
More than 30 jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. They house a quarter of the prison population. Here we explore how 19th century design is contributing to a 21st century crisis
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2/2 As the pursuit of net zero policies dominate headlines, the next #CAMPOP blog from Prof Paul Warde explains how and why organic fuel gave way to coal - a shift we now know brought hazards on a global scale. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/ @camunicampop.bsky.social @amrcampop.bsky.social
📣New blog post alert!📣 Why did the transition to a coal-fuelled economy happen where it did, when it did? Paul Warde charts the history of a crucial shift that we now know has brought about dangerous consequences on a global scale. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians
Campop blog #46: For World Vaccination Week, Romola Davenport explains the long history of lockdowns and quarantines (used to control COVID-19 before the vaccine), and how they were used to control plague and smallpox @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWhen we don’t have a cure or a vaccine, what works? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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Campop blog #45: before universal state pensions, did older people rely on family, charity, or community support? Richard Smith explains @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeHow did the elderly poor survive in the past? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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📣New blog post alert!📣 Continuing our discussion of older adults in the English past, today's post asks: who looked after the elderly when they were no longer able to work and earn? Did they rely on family, or could they turn to the community for support? www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians
Campop blog #44: The law has often been seen as a tool of particular benefit to the rich, particularly in the past. In today's blog Chris Brig outlines ways medieval manorial law could be used to benefit more disadvantaged people @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgePeasants and the law in medieval England « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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📣New blog post alert!📣 What relationship did ordinary peasants have with the institutions of the law in medieval England? Find out in our latest post from Chris Briggs: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians #medieval
📣New blog alert!📣 Did anyone retire in the past? What options did older people have before widespread retirement (funded by a pension) became the norm- were they expected to labour until work was no longer physically possible? Find out in our latest post: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians
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Campop blog #43: Did anyone retire in the past? Richard Smith explores the options for older people in the past, differing by gender and social status. Until the mid-20C retirement was a luxury not an entitlement @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeDid anyone “retire” in the past? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and dea...
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Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM... Learn more about the Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/working_papers.php
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History@cwpeconhist.bsky.social · last yr.❕New WP from Alexis Litvine, Thomas Thévenin, Arthur Starzec, Patrick Mille, Isabelle Séguy, and Guillaume Proffit❕ 𝐀 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊, 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟎-𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟎 ⬇️
How can we raise the Human Development Index? Life expectancy at birth = 1/3 of the HDI. Infant and maternal deaths started to fall around 1650 – but why? Alice Reid's analysis of a complex, 300-year story. @amrcampop.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeCall the midwife! Birth attendance and birth outcomes across history. « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know ...
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Campop blog #41: UK children are leaving home at older and older ages, or returning to live with parents. Kevin Schurer shows this is not just a recent trend: before the 20th century many children left home in their early teens @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeStill living with mum and dad? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death...
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