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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Quick turnaround, no fees, versioned to match your data deposits. Templates for submission available on our website 👆. If you want to discuss your paper, contact the CDPESH editors here or through the contacts available on our webpage.

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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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.118480 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I also use both the cross-sectional and longitudinal fertility data to discuss the problem of remarriages and ‘invisible stepmothers’ in historical censuses.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The revised paper further explores the contribution of linked census data to the reconstructed birth histories and the benefits of using duration of marriage as the basis for imputing missing births.

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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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.123782 Learn more about the Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-wo...

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The evidence suggests that married women found ways to evade the restrictions of coverture, although the legal mechanisms by which they did so remain obscure.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

But when business cards appeared in London in the eighteenth century, they didn’t just advertise men’s businesses,but also those of married women, single women and widows. Married women also took apprentices for their own businesses through London’s gilds, albeit in their husbands’ names.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Coverture, from the fourteenth to the late nineteenth century, was unique to England: elsewhere in Europe the husband managed his wife’s assets but did not own them.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Married women’s ability to act as business proprietors is widely assumed to have been severely inhibited by the English marital property rule of coverture, whereby a husband took possession of virtually all of his wife’s property.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

❕New WP from Amy Erickson❕ 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 ⬇️

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.118735 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

depending on the epidemiological context. Where smallpox was ubiquitous (as in Sweden) then CFRs were probably 'only' 8 - 10%. But where smallpox was a rare epidemic disease then CFRs could be much higher due to the disruption of economic activities and domestic care.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The oft-cited case-fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox (Variola major) of 20-30% doesn't hold up to historical evidence. Eric Schneider and Romola Davenport use evidence from eighteenth century Sweden and Iceland to demonstrate that, before vaccination, smallpox CFRs varied widely

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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 · 28/05/2025

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.118480 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

As large-scale record linking projects gather speed, this case study suggests that reconstructing birth histories could be an important part of their contribution to research in historical demography.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Record linking contributes to the reconstruction process by increasing the number of children who can be observed with their mothers at any census and extending the chronological span of observed marriages and births.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This research note describes an adaptation of a method proposed by Luther and Cho (1988) to reconstruct birth histories using retrospective fertility surveys and census data - in this case, using partial birth histories obtained from linked census data for the county of Derbyshire.

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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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.117739 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Where did rich and poor live in the "shock city" of the Industrial Revolution? This paper presents a method for precise address georeferencing for the I-CeM database as a tool for studying residential patterns in 19th century cities, using Manchester as a specific case study.

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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 · 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

based on road typology and early automobile specs and tested them against historical journey times. It paves the way to much more precise calculations of journey time, accessibility and network metrics for the early twentieth century.

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This paper introduces the first detailed road network for cars in France and the UK in 1910 and 1930 using historical Michelin road maps. The authors also describe how they created a speed model for early cars

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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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116601 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Was early modern Globalisation driven by European inter-state competition? Comparing English and Spanish regulations of Transatlantic trade suggests it wasn’t.

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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 · 10/03/2025

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116507 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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This research suggests that railway stations in early 20th-century France did more than connect cities—they also shaped democracy. Municipalities with a newly built station saw an increase in voter turnout, and where newspapers were available in stations, the left gained more votes.

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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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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

@benschneider.bsky.social - would it be OK to add our new WP series in Economic and Social history to the EH starter pack?

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Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109891 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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