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Interactive website. As part of the Atlas of Victorian Fertility project, we have created an interactive website, Populations Past, to allow exploration of the geography of demographic and socio-economic outcome

However, we have created datasets relating to many other socio-economic variables within a harmonised GIS framework which means that all the variables can be related to each other at a ... This forms part of a longer-term plan to create a research data

them. All of these datasets will be made available to the scholarly community via the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) at the UK Data Archive.

response by entrepreneurs to economic circumstances (Crouzet), 'ultimately a dead-end' (Lévy-Leboyer), or even a pure invention (Dormois).

The opportunity they present for extending per capita analysis into the past means that they have become a standard reference for historical demography and economic history, and have been cited in ... Why do we need to calculate population size?

Search site. You are in: Home » Research » Transport »andTransport, urbanization and economic development in England and Wales c.1670-1911. ... Isaac Newton Trust grant. Transport, urbanization and economic development in England and Wales c.1670-1911.

In particular, the historical demography of urban areas, and the complex interactions between urban and rural populations, remain under-researched, despite the huge importance of urbanisation to economic development. ... M. Kitson, and S. J. Thompson (eds

These affected personal economic opportunity, the occupational choices of the population, their welfare, mobility, skills, consumption and demographic structures. ... In search of work. Labour migration and economic performance in England and the

BA University of Oxford (1990). Research. My research has focused on the social, economic, and environmental influences on infant, early child and maternal mortality, particularly over the course of the late ... Our website, Populations Past, provides an

Kuznets and de Vries have argued that excessive urban mortality rates precluded modern economic growth, with its concomitant rapid urbanisation, because no population could produce a rural population surplus sufficient to ... Economic History Review, 64(4

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

What role did transport play in long-run economic development? How did population geography develop 1377-1911?

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. ... Did it differ between towns with different economic and geographical characteristics?

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

and economic change, and the extent to which different locations in England shared the same short-term experience of mortality.

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

LACHOS was launched in the 6. th. Latin American Economic History Congress (Santiago de Chile, July 2019) by Marc Badia-Miró (Universitat de Barcelona), Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Emiliano Travieso (both ... Over the last two decades scholars have

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

Migration, Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Change, England and Wales 1851-1911 (ESRC research project).

Ms Auriane Terki-Mignot. Auriane Terki-Mignot did her BA dissertation on female employment in Westmorland and is now doing the M.Phil in Economic history working on female employment during ... He is now taking the M.Phil in Economic and Social History,

Davenport, R.J., Boulton, J., and Schwarz, L., 2016. 'Urban inoculation and the decline of smallpox in eighteenth century cities: a reply to Razzell', Economic History Review, 69(1): 188-214.

Workhouses were intended as a deterrent to working age men especially, for moralistic, economic and ideological reasons.

We can then begin to understand the peculiar social milieu of the bastard in Gurktal, where (s)he served an economic purpose as a servant for much of his/her life

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

2020). Demographic and Socio-economic Data for Registration Sub-districts of England and Wales, 1851-1911.

Modernisation theory envisaged a tight relationship between family forms and economic change. ... anti-communist development economics project of the post-war liberal west.

Data on occupational structure and population geography have exceptional promise for international comparative work in economic history.

Secondly, they provide strong evidence that although economic developments during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century may seem to have been limited and gradual at the national scale, this surface calm ... incubators of technological innovation

2018-2021. ESRC: Migration, Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Change, England and Wales 1851-1911. ... 2018. Carnevali Small Grants Research Scheme (Economic History Society): Mapping Ipswich pilot project.

The second pilot project, funded by a Carnevali Small Research Grant (Economic History Society), investigated the feasibility and benefit of creating a house-by-house GIS of historic Ipswich.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

The name of the delivery attendant is given, together with any mortality of mother or child, and a variety of socio-economic and demographic information.

The Occupational Structure of Britain Research program is collaborating with the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus to study the economic development of Canada. ... The long-term aim is to follow this work with a second study, 1951 to the

1850 followed a similar course among elites and non-elites and among European populations at differing stages of economic development.

Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Exeter, UK. 2008. 'Private law and medieval village society' (Chris Briggs). ... Historical Economics Forum, Queen's University Belfast, UK. 2008. 'Medieval English peasants and the law' (Phillipp

The opportunity they present for extending per capita analysis into the past means that they have become a standard reference for historical demography and economic history, and have been cited in ... Why do we need to calculate population size?

As occupational structure has been demonstrated as a very revealing indicator to the economic past, the PhD research by Ying will investigate the occupational structure of Lower Yangzi River Region from

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

andThe economic geography of the south-east Midlands in 1801-1851. This is a project of the Demography, health and wellbeing research theme, and The Cambridge Group for the History of ... funded project, Male Occupational Change and Economic Growth in

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

The underlying aim of the project is to improve our understanding both of the first Industrial Revolution and of the centuries of economic development which preceded it and to put our

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

Roads, railways, canals, navigable rivers and more. Datasets created on Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development project.

For further details see: Wrigley, E.A., The early English censuses, British Academy Records of Economic and Social History, new series (Oxford, 1911). ... For details of how these figures were derived see: Wrigley, E.A., 'English county populations in

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

th. September, at Robinson College, Cambridge. We would like to acknowledge generous support for the meeting from the Economic History Society, the British Academy and the Ellen MacArthur Trust Cambridge. ... We would also like to acknowledge generous

This was linked to the concerns of eugenicists, who believed that this was leading to the genetic decline of the British 'race' at a time of imperial and economic crisis. ... Also, the Scots do not seem to have attempted to analyse the fertility data by