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Alexis Litvine

@alexislitvine.bsky.social
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C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist.

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I forgot to mention all built-up areas 🏡in the mid-19th century and the 1950s! doi.org/10.17863/CAM... and doi.org/10.17863/CAM... Please do let us know how you use our data, and warn us when you find some issues (there will always be some).
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Built up areas and urban footprints in France, 1820s–1860s
This dataset provides a nationwide geospatial inventory of buildings in nineteenth-century France, extracted from the historical État-Major maps produced by the French military cartographic services. ...
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@cam.ac.uk @camdighum.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @ined.bsky.social
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
❗Big update on our French GIS data ❗All historical railways, stations, rivers, canals, all administrative units and population back to 1790s now available on Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.3727273. Check out the data papers (more to come soon) here: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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Cambridge Data Papers in Economic and Social History
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I will be in Paris for the next four days, if you’d like to meet, for a chat or work, just send DM me on here or via the usual email channel!
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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Please share 🙏 @gproffit.bsky.social @amrcampop.bsky.social @robinlinacre.bsky.social @sdueconhist.bsky.social @alexislitvine.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hey @joshrhodes.bsky.social thanks for the shoutout. Could you share your links so we can reproduce & see how we can explain the difference? We have a new v. of the links coming out soon and would be good to see if these divergences are still there. Also any publication from you we can cite on this?
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We are introducing a new data paper series! If you are creating data & need a stable DOI to document your data, let other people know how to use them, make sure it is Findable & Reusable, & get credit for your amazing data work, we'd be happy to publish your paper! www.hist.cam.ac.uk/cwpesh-and-c...
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
New paper with @gproffit.bsky.social and Arthur Starzec documenting a dataset containing all buildings and urban footprints extracted from the Etat-Major (military) maps for France in the mid C19. Now available to all to play with. #urbaneconomics #econhist paper & data 👉 doi.org/10.17863/CAM...
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Built up areas and urban footprints in France, 1820s–1860s
This dataset provides a nationwide geospatial inventory of buildings in nineteenth-century France, extracted from the historical État-Major maps produced by the French military cartographic services. ...
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
An updated version of Emma Diduch's WP is now available on CWPESH 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
With: @gproffit.bsky.social , Emma Diduch, @amrcampop.bsky.social , Christian Møller Dahl, Torben Johansen, and @robinlinacre.bsky.social . Based at @camunicampop.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk , @sdueconhist.bsky.social , and the MOJ!
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New read for anyone interested in the task/occupation debate and their suitability for studying structural change.
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Cédric Chambru @cedricchambru.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Apply for the ESSHC 2027 and come to visit us in Lyon!
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Another great paper in our working paper series by Amy Erickson.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What I find the most infuriating is that I wrote to the entire EDI team of @cam.ac.uk and I did not even receive an answer. I really wonder what the point of all the talk about equality is. I would like to see concrete acts, not mere slogans about gender equality.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The person in charge of the postdoc centre flatly denies their policy is discriminatory (“since it applies to men and women equally”!!!) and tells me their insurance policy does not allow them to have an infant on site, be it for 10 minutes in his mother’s arms.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I immediately complained but was told that breastfeeding was not forbidden, only bringing a child. Despite countless emails & pointing out this was a clear case of indirect discrimination, nothing has changed. My partner still has to use a nearby restaurant to feed our son. I find this humiliating.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Two months ago my partner was asked to leave the Postdoc centre of the @cam.ac.uk in Eddington where she works because I briefly brought her our baby so she could breastfeed him (in the lobby)! If we want to support women in academia and career equality, we should do better!
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Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Dear Colleagues, On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July). sase.org/events/2026-... Deadline: December 16th
In this mini-conference, we are seeking to have a critical debate about land struggles over sovereignty, resources and means of survival. We are inviting folks to submit abstracts (no more than 1000 words) which raise land as the main object of analysis of power in a ‘post-globalisation order’. By seeking to re-centre the Land Question in contemporary socio and political economic debate and scholarship, we aim to illuminate how land and the power it confers shape institutions, create and mediate conflicts, and determine possibilities for both domination and resistance in an era marked by ecological crisis and geopolitical realignment.

We are particularly interested in hearing about research which speaks to one of our key themes:

1. Land conflicts and new imperialisms
2. Extractivism and resource conflicts
3. Digital infrastructure and the material internet
4. Institutions and power in the regulation of land
5. Consequences of urban and rural land concentration
6. Land rent and heterodox economics
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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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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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Oh! That’s really cool! Can’t wait to read.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Well done @willpooley.bsky.social !! Can’t wait to read it.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Oh sorry! Did not see the first map. It’s brilliant.
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
What’s the current coverage?
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It’s really gorgeous @docuracy.co.uk !!
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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...
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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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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...
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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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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
NEW DATASET - OUT NOW! A massive 69,000 records added to the Railway Work, Life & Death project, covering English & Welsh railways, 1855-1929. Download our free database from our website - & please spread the word! #Railway200
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Another great paper on @cwpeconhist.bsky.social ! If you have not done it yet, follow us for the latest from @cambridgeup.bsky.social and elsewhere! We are open to all new submissions, fast turnaround, immediate DOI and increased visibility for your working papers in #econhist and #demography!
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
❕New WP from Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport❕ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐩𝐨𝐱? ⬇️
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
❕New WP from Regina Grafe, Professor of Economic History (1928)❕ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
❕New WP from Emily Chung❕ 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟏-𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟏 ⬇️
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
❕New WP from Emma Diduch❕ 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 ⬇️
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@rte.ie - do you have any day you can share about this?
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I think the key issue here is "whose" interests is implicity alluded to? His, or pehaps the Telegraph's readership, but surely not mine. What baffles me is that as a (former) historian he knows his conception of the Nation is only one of many. Genuine lack of self awareness or editorial strategy?
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@ebu.ch - since you say on your website you favour #transparency, is it possible to get a detailed breakdown of the absolute number of votes received for each entry in each country, and the average number of votes per entry per unique mobile number in each country?
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@ebu.ch - can I check this is correct? Picking one coutry at random; Ireland had c.268,000 viewers for #eurovision final. Say 10% of them voted, 670 SIM cards (x20 votes) would do to get 50% of the votes costing **€1440** (2€/SIM and 0.15€/text). Not hard to imagine a country manipulating the result
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you are not yet hooked on Campop’s weeklies, just read @judyzara.bsky.social post on work before the Industrial Revolution at www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05.... You can always sign up to get these delivered fresh to you with your morning coffee every week!
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeIndustriousness and precarity: work before the Industrial Revolution « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
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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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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Look at this wonderful new paper by @emvchung.bsky.social from @camunicampop.bsky.social !
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Great to spot @camunicampop.bsky.social ‘s data used in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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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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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A more interesting question would be can you plot the location of the centre point for an equal quadrant distribution for the last couple of centuries?
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
❕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 ⬇️
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/
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Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate - Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Delighted to share a free copy of my book chapter on marriage, intimacy and adulthood in disabled people’s lives and activism. This is part of 'Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z', all open access thanks to Knowledge Unlatched. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.22...
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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
❕New WP from Alban de Gmeline❕ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 (𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟎-𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟎) ⬇️
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A double bill this week to celebrate International Women’s Day!!
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📣New blog post alert!📣 Today @charmianmansell.bsky.social gives us 5 reasons why service in the past was not always like Downton Abbey... www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Really enjoyed working on this with Stan Hinton and would love to get some feedback on methods and findings from anyone out there. All criticicsm welcome, this is what WPs are for!
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