In the next five years, we are going to do LOTS of census linking 🔗🔗🔗🔗🔗, produce new transcriptions of all UK censuses 1841-1921, and use these to study migrations and demographic transitions, thanks to @ukri.org !
Sneak peek at: www.geolinking.hist.cam.ac.uk
Young adults (age 15-24) were most likely to move - out of rural areas and towards cities and industrial areas. Older adults were far less likely to move www.populationspast.org/nmr4554/1891...
There was a remarkable decline in Scarlet Fever mortality among young children over just a few decades of the late 19th century (www.populationspast.org/sf14/1901/#5...)
🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates!
For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...
Call for Papers: Workshop “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) interventions – the long view”. Cambridge, 15–16 June 2026. Papers on historical/comparative WaSH, sanitation, disease, and public health. 🧵⬇️
Curious about our Master's in Population Studies? Explore how migration, ageing, and family dynamics shape our world.
Join our info event on Friday, 13 March at 13:00 & 14:00 in room 5419-0009, University of Groningen, @frw-rug.bsky.social
Register here 👉 www.rug.nl/education/ma...
What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years?
Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life.
It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood.
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"Should the social sciences primarily focus on analysing the world - or should they try to help fix its problems? To crystallise this question I ask: why is there no ‘ARIA for social issues’?
[ARIA is the relatively new institution created in the UK to back breakthrough innovations in science]"
The UK university sector has gone beyond the red line and is now in a stage of rapid decomposition. Only a fundamental reset could save whole chunks of it. Probably too late for large parts.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
📣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
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
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Vaginal/virginal
Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social
Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know!
(This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)
Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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
Based on newly published research: Emily Chung, ‘Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester’, The Historical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X251012
Or read more about it in her Campop blog on the topic: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
"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...
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
View from the conference location towards Swansea and the Mumbles (Mumbles lighthouse just visible if you really squint)
View from the conference location towards Port Talbot (now decommissioned steelworks just visible if you squint)
Reflections on the #BSPS2025 conference, one of my favourites (after >20 years of conferencing). This year it was held at the beautiful campus on Swansea Bay (sadly didn’t get a pic of the delicious Welsh cakes that came out at afternoon tea!) 🧵
Proud winners of the #BSPS2025 conference quiz!
In fact we do use the term 'birth rate', for certain types of rate, eg crude birth rate - births per 1000 people. 'Fertility rates' generally relate births to the people at risk of having them, ie women or women in particular age groups
I agree it's confusing, but in demography, fertility refers to achieved births, and the term for the ability to become pregnant is fecundity.
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.
#research #hiring
📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)
www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...
Congratulations!
Great commentary on our broken university sector from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. Obviously it's a bit more complicated here and there, but she only had about 800 words
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇