Excited to be organizing and moderating this discussion on urban history as an interdisciplinary research practice in a few weeks — if you're in Cambridge, come join us! Registration at the link below 👇
For anyone interested in geocoding historical census records, my new article in @socscihistory.bsky.social's journal explains how I've used ordnance surveys and trade directories to link British Victorian records! doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians.
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Thrilled to be holding my copy of @holsmith.bsky.social’s new book - run don’t walk to get yours too!
Manchester has long been a model for the class divisions characteristic of British Victorian cities, and this segregation has largely been attributed as a spatial phenomenon as informed by qualitative sources from the period. The digitization of historical source material, however, allows for quantitative assessments of residential differentiation. By analysing patterns of residential distribution using nineteenth-century, individual-level census data, it is revealed that early Victorian Manchester was characterized more by residential heterogeneity than segregation. In light of this finding, this article revisits the source base for early Victorian Manchester in order to reconcile the differences in the physical and social dimensions of segregation for a more accurate and holistic understanding of urban dynamics and the mechanisms of class formation. It explains this dissonance by exploring the city’s architectural, occupational, and cultural structures: while rich and poor lived cheek-by-jowl in the industrial city, temporal rhythms of employment, institutionalized cultures of class, and emerging modes of urban maintenance and discipline all produced practices which differentiated and isolated one class from another.
📣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 🗃️🏠
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It is also, as you point out, the case that this is a snapshot of a city in flux. The conditions in Manchester change considerably by the end of the 19th century, with shared, diverse housing becoming much less common.
Many servants did live with their employers, but what is more surprising is the frequency of low- and 'un'-skilled factory labourers living in the same buildings as doctors, engineers, and shop owners.
Yes! All my visualisations are made using QGIS and R with ggplot.
Thanks Sam! a little surreal to see my name in one of the newspapers I draw from in my research...
Thanks Will! This would be a pretty full-circle moment for me since my interest in Engels/Manchester sprouted from a reading I had in my undergrad @calpolyslo.bsky.social !
Thanks Tom!
Thank you Laura!
Thank you - so pleased to share this work!!
If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇
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
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Thanks so much Lucie, I'm so pleased to be able to share this research with everyone! And maybe garner a little more interest in @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social while I'm at it...
Had such a blast in Leicester with the Urban History Group this week! So many great papers from Early Career and Senior researchers alike :)
Hoping to see everyone in Barcelona at #EAUH2026 and then back together for #UHG2027!
Thanks Freddy!
My first working paper is out! If you're at all interested in using I-CeM for spatial investigation, check out my method for residential georeferencing.
What does urban history look like in the digital age? In my latest post for the new @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social ECR blog, I consider how we might use these new tools and techniques to our advantage...
📣New blog post alert...📣
And it's number 30! We're halfway through our series of 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work & death since the middle ages.
We'd love to know what you think about the blogs. Let us know if you are enjoying them.
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CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.