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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

📣We're delighted to hear that Emily Chung's (@emvchung.bsky.social) HJ article 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester' has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026! 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So pleased/grateful that my HJ article has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Early Career Article Prize alongside such fantastic pieces from last year!

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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 👇

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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....

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Visualizing Victorian Manchester: Granular Geocoding for Demographic Analysis | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Visualizing Victorian Manchester: Granular Geocoding for Demographic Analysis

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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Historian in the Age of AI | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core

The Historian in the Age of AI

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Thrilled to be holding my copy of @holsmith.bsky.social’s new book - run don’t walk to get yours too!

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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 · 24/10/2025

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.

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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.

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Yes! All my visualisations are made using QGIS and R with ggplot.

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Thanks Sam! a little surreal to see my name in one of the newspapers I draw from in my research...

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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 !

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Thank you - so pleased to share this work!!

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇

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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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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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...

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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!

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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.

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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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...

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Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

📣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. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/ #skystorians

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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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