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Interdisciplinary research group at the University of Cambridge. 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. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PhD topic #3: Long-run changes in health in Britain. Use detailed information (mortality, disease, housing, services, policies) from annual Medical Officer of Health reports, 1871 - 1973, in a comparative study of different areas in the UK. www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Long-run changes in health in Britain | Department of Geography
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PhD topic #2: Health insights from 19-20C vaccination registers. Undertake an in-depth study of changes in health outcomes, and the roles of local environments, family structures, socioeconomic status etc, using a newly digitised source. www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Health insights from 19-20C vaccination registers | Department of Geography
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PhD topic #1: Family building processes in the early 20th century.Why did people have smaller families in this period, and what were the roles of work opportunities and changing social attitudes? www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Family building processes during the early twentieth century | Department of Geography
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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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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to Campop co-director @amrcampop.bsky.social - new Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences!
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Deeply honoured to have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social Looking forward to being part of this august group and being a champion for social sciences! @camunigeography.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social @churchillcol.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣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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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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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From California to Cambridge: an unexpected path to History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"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...
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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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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
📣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...
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.
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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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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
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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...
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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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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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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 · 08/05/2025
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...
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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 · 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 · 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 · 06/05/2025
Look at this wonderful new paper by @emvchung.bsky.social from @camunicampop.bsky.social !
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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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
Image: Sydney Curnow Vosper, Interior with Large Fireplace. Royal Watercolour Society.
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📣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
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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...
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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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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...
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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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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📣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
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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...
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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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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📣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
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
📣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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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...
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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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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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...
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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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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...
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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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Campop blog #40: today malaria is a major cause of illness and death in tropical countries, but a milder form used to be endemic in the UK; Mathias Ingholt explains what we know about this disease in northern Europe @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeThe not-so tropical disease: malaria in northern Europe « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, ...
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Did you see our special #IWD post on Saturday? Amy Erickson explores the legacy of women in business, providing a crucial historical context for the call to "accelerate action" www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog And a great discussion happening on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #skystorians
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Women in business aren’t newcomers – they’re part of a long legacy 👭 International Women&#39;s Day (IWD) originated in 1908 with demands for better working… | 37 comments on LinkedIn
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Campop blog #39: A bonus blog for International Women's Day! Amy Erickson reveals a long history of female businesswomen, arguing this should change to way we see women in history and question the extent of progress to the present @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeInternational Women’s Day: Female Entrepreneurs « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage...
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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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📣New (extra) blog post alert!📣 To mark International Women's Day, we have a special post from Amy Erickson on the history of female entrepreneurs. Women in business aren’t newcomers – they’re part of a long legacy. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians #IWD
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Campop blog #38: Servants in the past were not all like those in Downton Abbey! Charmian Mansell describes the wide variety in servants' social status, tasks and living conditions in pre-industrial Britain @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeFive reasons why service in the past was not like Downton Abbey « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about ...
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📣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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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Campop blog #37: Today employee fraud ranges from petty theft of office supplies to manipulating financial statements/payrolls. PhD student Jerome Gasson explores how farm managers cheated in the middle ages, and what employers did @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeCould farm managers in the middle ages be trusted? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marri...
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Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Have a look at our most recent paper by Chris Briggs from @camunicampop.bsky.social #medievalhistory #skystorian
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Campop blog #36: Who did older people live with in the pre-industrial English past? Richard Smith shows that, as today, they lived independently for as long as possible, and rarely moved in with married children @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeWith whom did older persons reside in the past? « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage...
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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ever wondered what happened behind the harmonious facade of the traditional village community? Were the "commons" really open to the common people? More pathbreaking work in the Campop 60th birthday series.
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📣New blog post alert!📣 Who did older people live with in the British past? Were extended, multi-generational households the norm? Find out in our latest post from Richard Smith: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians #familyhistory
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Campop blog #35: Was the post-war Welfare State Britain's first universal social security system? Simon Szreter argues this credit should go to the Elizabethan Poor Law which raised taxes to provide relief for poor, sick and old. @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeFrom cradle to grave « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the...
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📣New blog post alert! 📣 "From cradle to grave": In our latest post, Simon Szreter explores the history of the welfare state in Britain. Was this a post-WW2 innovation? Or a throwback to something a little more... Tudor? www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/ #skystorians
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