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Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Report of research activities October 2015 – September 2016

Current Group members, October 6 2016

Luis Almenar Student visitor (History) Eduard Alvarez-Palau RA (History) Sophy Arulanantham Administrator and librarian (Geography) Bob Bennett Emeritus Professor (Geography) Lyn Boothman Affiliate (History) Chris Briggs Senior Lecturer (History) John Broad Affiliate (History) Kayt Button Ph.D. student (History) Jordan Claridge Affiliate (History) and temporary lecturer LSE Romola Davenport SRA (Geography) Joe Day RA (Geography) Oliver Dunn RA (History) Amy Erickson Lecturer (History) Jacob Field Affiliate (History) Eilidh Garrett Affiliate (Geography) Spike Gibbs Ph.D. student (History) Irene Haycock Ph.D. student (intermitting) (Geography) Josh Ivinson Ph.D. student (History) Hannaliis Jaadla RA (Geography) Sebastian Keibek Junior Research Fellow (History) Mung Lar Lam M.Phil student (History) Annette Mackenzie Research Assistant (History) Akanksha Marphatia Affiliate (Geography ) Sophie McGeevor Ph.D. student (History) Gill Newton RA (Geography) Ellen Potter Ph.D. student (Geography) Dragana Radicic RA (Geography) Alice Reid Lecturer (Geography) Max Satchell RA (Geography and History) Kevin Schurer Visitor (Geography) Leigh Shaw-Taylor Senior Lecturer (History) Harry Smith RA (Geography) Richard Smith Emeritus Professor (Geography) Judy Stephenson Affiliate (History) and Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford Keith Sugden Affiliate (History) Rebecca Tyler Data editor (Geography) Carry van Lieshout RA (Geography) Alex Wakelam Ph.D. student (History) Paul Warde Lecturer (History) Samantha Williams Senior Lecturer (Continuing Education/History) Tony Wrigley Emeritus Professor (History) Cheng Yang Ph.D. student (History) Xuesheng You RA (History)

(SRA = Senior Research Associate, RA = Research Associate)

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Publications appearing in print or published online (in Online Early form) since October 2015 Alvarez-Palau, E. (2016) ‘Ferrocarril y Sistema de Ciudades’, Biblio 3W. Revista bibliogràfica de

Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, XXI (1.169), 38p. Alvarez-Palau, E., HERNÁNDEZ, M. y TORT, A. (2016) ‘Modelo morfológico de crecimiento urbano

inducido por la infraestructura ferroviaria. Estudio de caso en 25 ciudades catalanas’, Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, XX (527), 38p.

Bennett, R.J. & Newton, G. (2015) ‘Identifying employers in the population census in England and Wales in 1881’, Local Population Studies, Volume 95, Number 1, Autumn 2015, pp. 29-49

Bennett, R.J. (2016) ‘Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain’, Economic History Review, 69(4): 1199-1227, doi:10.1111/ehr.12327

Jervis, B., Briggs, C., and Tompkins, M. (2015) ‘Exploring text and objects: escheators’ inventories and material culture in medieval English rural households’, Medieval Archaeology, 59, pp. 168-92.

Briggs, C. (2015) ‘Peasants, Lords, and Commerce: Market Regulation at Balsham, Cambridgeshire, in the Early Fourteenth Century’, in M. Kowaleski, J. Langdon and P. Schofield (eds) Peasants and lords in the medieval English economy: essays in honour of Bruce M.S. Campbell (Brepols), pp. 247-72.

Boothman, L. (2015) ‘Studying the stayers: the stable population of Long Melford, Suffolk, over two hundred years’, Local Population Studies, 95, Autumn 2015.

Broad, J. (2015) ‘Making sense of Detached Kitchens: the implications of documentary evidence from seventeenth century Wiltshire’, Vernacular Architecture, 46, pp. 1-7.

Broad, J. (2016) ‘English Agrarian Structures in a European Context, 1300-1925’, in James Bowen and Alex Brown, Custom and Commercialization (University of Hertfordshire), pp. 51-72.

Broad, J. (2016) ‘Joan Thirsk and agricultural regions: a fifty year perspective’, in CC Dyer & others (eds) Farmers, consumers and innovators: the world of Joan Thirsk (University of Hertfordshire), pp. 17-27.

Coates, P. and Moon, D., Warde, P. (eds) (2016) Local Places, Global Processes (Oxford: Windgather Press).

Davenport, R.J. (2016) ‘Urban family reconstitution – a worked example’, Local Population Studies, 96: 28-49.

Gentvilaite, R., Warde, P. and Kander, A. (2015) ‘The Role of Energy Quality in Shaping Long-Term Energy Intensity in Europe’, Energies, 8, 133-53.

Jaadla, H., & Puur, A. (2016) ‘The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality: Individual-level evidence from Tartu, Estonia, 1897–1900’ Population Studies, 70 (2), 163–179.

Kabagenyi, A., Reid, A., Rutaremwa, G., Atuyambe, L.M. and Ntozi, J.P.M. (2015) ‘Has Uganda experienced any stalled fertility transitions? Reflecting on the last four decades (1973-2011)’, Fertil Res Pract, v. 1, p.1-10. doi:10.1186/s40738-015-0006-1

Marphatia, A., Cole, T., Grijalva-Eternod, C., and Wells, J. (2016) ‘Associations of gender inequality with child malnutrition and mortality across 96 countries.’ Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics, 1(e6): 1-8.

Marphatia, A.A., Devakumar, D., Wells, J.C.K., Saville, N., Reid, A., Costello, A., Manandhar, D.S. and Osrin, D. (2016) ‘Maternal phenotype, independent of family economic capital, predicts educational attainment in lowland Nepalese children’, American Journal of Human Biology, 28(5), 687-698. doi:10.1002/ajhb.22852

Pugh, G., Mangan, J., Blackburn, V. and Radicic, D. (2015) ‘School Expenditure and School Performance: Evidence from New South Wales schools using a dynamic panel analysis’, British Educational Research Journal, 41(2), 244-264.

Radicic, D., Pugh, G., Hollanders, H., Wintjes, R. and Fairburn, J. (2015) ‘The impact of innovation support programmes on SME innovation in traditional manufacturing industries: an evaluation for seven EU regions’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. doi: 10.1177/0263774X15621759

Reid, A., E. Garrett, L. Williamson & C. Dibben (2016) ‘A century of deaths, Scotland 1855-1955; a view from the civil registers’, in Susan Buckham, Peter Jupp & Julie Rugg (eds), Death in modern Scotland, 1855-1955: beliefs, attitudes and practices (Peter Lang), pp. 131-160.

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Reid, A., E. Garrett, C. Dibben & L. Williamson (2016) ‘Gender specific mortality trends over the epidemiological transition: a view from the British mainland 1850-2000’, in Martin Dinges and Andreas Weigl (eds), The drifting apart of gender-specific life expectancy in Central and Northwestern Europe 1850/1900-2000/2010. A comparison (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart: Beihefte zu MedGG), pp.73-88.

Reid, A. (2016) ‘Where are all the feminist historical demographers?’, in Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Hideko Matsuo and Jan Kok, The future of historical demography. Upside down and inside out (Leuven / Den Haag: Acco Publishers), pp. 145-147.

Smith, R.M. (2015) ‘Dearth and Local Political Responses in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1596-7 compared’ in J. Langdon, M. Kowaleski and Phillipp Schofield (eds) Peasants and Lords in the Medieval Economy (Brussels: Brepols), pp. 377-406.

Solanas, J., Alvarez-Palau, E. & Martí, J. (2015) ‘Estación ferroviaria y ciudades intermedias: Lectura Geo-espacial del crecimiento urbano mediante indicadores SIG vectoriales. El caso de Cataluña (1848-2010)’, GeoFocus. Revista Internacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Información Geográfica, 16, pp. 253-280.

Stuetzer, M., Obschonka, M., Audretsc, D.B., Wyrwich, M., Rentfrow, P.J., Coombes, M., Shaw-Taylor, L., Satchell, M. (2016) ‘Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields’, European Economic Review, 86, pp. 52-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.08.012

van Lieshout, C. (2016) 'Droughts and Dragons: geography, rainfall, and eighteenth-century London's water systems', Technology & Culture, Oct 2016.

Warde, P. (2016) ‘The Environment’, in Coates, P., Moon, D., & Warde, P. (eds), Local Places, Global Processes. (Oxford: Windgather Press), 32-46.

Warde, P. (2015) ‘Early modern “resource crisis”: the wood shortage debates in Europe’, in Brown, A.T, Burn, A., and Doherty, R. (eds), Crisis in economic and social history (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer).

Williams, S. (2016) ‘The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1790–1834’, Economic History Review, 69, 3, pp. 945–971.

Wrigley, E. A. (2016) The path to sustained growth: England’s transition from an organic economy to an industrial revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Publications accepted/in press since October 2015 Alvarez-Palau, E. & Martí, J. ‘Railways and population distribution: HGIS data and indicators for spatial

analysis, in Gregory, I., DeBeats, D. & Lafreniere, D. Routledge Handbook of Spatial History (Routledge, forthcoming 2017). ISBN - 978-1138860148.

Briggs, C. ‘Rural households and the market for commodities in the later middle ages’, in M. Müller (ed) The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Rural Life, c. 1100–1550.

Briggs, C. ‘Mortgages and the English peasantry, c.1250-1350’, in Briggs, C., and Zuijderduijn, J. (eds) Land and credit: mortgages and annuities in the medieval and early modern European countryside (Palgrave studies in the history of finance).

Briggs, C., and Zuijderduijn, J. (eds) Land and credit: mortgages and annuities in the medieval and early modern European countryside (Palgrave studies in the history of finance).

Day, J. ‘Leaving home in nineteenth-century England and Wales: A spatial analysis’, Demographic Research, forthcoming 2016.

Erickson, A.L. ‘Esther Sleepe, fanmaker, and her family’, Special issue on the Burney Family, Eighteenth-Century Life (2017).

Erickson, A.L. ‘Negotiating social capital: apprenticing daughters in early modern urban England’, in M. Lanzinger, J. Maegraith, S. Clementi, E. Forster and C. Hagen (eds) Stipulating – Litigating – Mediating. Negotiations of Gender and Property (Brill).

Erickson, A.L. ‘The sphere of influence of Ellen McArthur of Girton College, Cambridge’, in H. Smith and M. Zook (eds) Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy (University of Amsterdam Press).

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Erickson, A.L. ‘Rethinking the significance of inheritance and marriage in landholding’, in A. Capern and B. McDonagh (eds) Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (Boydell).

Jaadla, H., Puur, A. & Rahu, K. ‘Socio-economic and cultural differentials in mortality in a late-nineteenth-century urban setting: a linked records study from Tartu, Estonia, 1897–1900’ Demographic Research, forthcoming 2017.

Martí, J. & Alvarez-Palau, E. ‘HSR and the City: Accessibility to stations and intermodality’ (pp. 82-99) in Bel, G. & Albalate, D. Evaluating High-Speed Rail: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming 2017). 192p. ISBN - 978-1138123595.

Radicic, D. and Pugh, G. ‘Performance effects of open innovation in European small and medium-sized enterprises’, Journal of Small Business Management.

Reid, A., E. Garrett & Simon Szreter, ‘Residential mobility and child mortality in early twentieth century Belfast’, in Diego Ramiro & Michel Oris (eds) New approaches of death in the cities during the health transition, Springer (proofs returned August 2016; publication date: 16 October 2016)

Rutterford, J., Sotiropoulis, D., & van Lieshout, C. 'Individual investors and local bias in the UK: 1870-1935', Economic History Review, accepted.

Smith, R.M. ‘Fertility characteristics of household formation systems’, in N. Hopwood, L. Kassell and R. Flemming (eds) Reproduction: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2017).

Smith, R.M. ‘Contrasting susceptibilities to famine in early fourteenth century and late sixteenth-century England: the significance of late medieval social structural and governmental changes’, in M.J. Braddick and P. Withington (eds) Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland Essays in Honour of John Walter (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming 2017).

Smith, R.M. ‘Economic and demographic changes in sixteenth-century Essex and their impact on domestic building’, Transactions of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History (2017).

Stanev, K., Alvarez-Palau E. & Martí, J. ‘Railway Development and the Economic and Political Integration of the Balkans, c.1850-2000’, Europe-Asia Studies, forthcoming 2017.

Stephenson, J. ‘‘Real’ Wages? Contractors, workers and pay in London building trades, 1650 -1800’, Economic History Review, submitted January 2015, accepted August 2016.

Sugden, K. ‘The Location of the Textile Industry in England and Wales, 1813-1820’, Textile History, November 2016.

van Lieshout, C. '”The most valuable means of extinguishing the destroying fires”: fire-fighting and the London water companies in the long eighteenth century', London Journal, Jan 2017.

Warde, P. The Invention of Sustainability. Nature, Human Action, and Destiny, 1500-1870 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Warde, P. ‘Sustainability, resources and the destiny of states in German cameralist thought’ in Forrester, K., and Smith, S. (eds), TBA (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Warde, P. ‘Social and environmental history in the Anthropocene’, in Arnold, J. (ed.), History Matters. History after Hobsbawm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Warde, P. ‘Constructing Arctic Energy Resources: the case of the Canadian north, 1921-1980’, in Wormbs, N. (ed.), Arctic Futures, (Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming).

Warde, P. ‘Cameralist writing in the mirror of practice: the long development of forestry in Germany’, in Seppel, M. & Tribe, K. (eds), Cameralism in practice: The spread of German principles of state administration and economy in eighteenth-century Europe (Woodbridge: Boydell, forthcoming).

Wrigley, E. A. ‘The preventive check and the poor law: the Malthusian model and its implications’, in T.R. Malthus, An essay of the principle of population, in the series Rethinking the western tradition (Yale University Press, forthcoming).

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Publications appearing as working papers or on personal or other websites (but not formally published) since October 2015 Davenport, R.J. ‘The first stage of the epidemiological transition in British cities: a comparison of infant

mortality in Manchester and London, 1750 – 1820’, http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/migrationmortalitymedicalisation/pdf3.pdf

Jestl, S., Alvarez-Palau, E., Holzner, M. & Martí, J. ‘Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans. Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since early 19th century until present days’, Working papers, No. 121. The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Wiiw. 40p.

Keibek, S. ‘Using probate data for estimating historical male occupational structures’ (http://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/abstracts/paper27.pdf)

Keibek, S. ‘Allocating labourers to occupational sectors in historical datasets using regression techniques’, (http://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/abstracts/paper28.pdf)

Keibek, S. ‘From probate inventories to households: correcting the probate record for wealth bias’ (http://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/abstracts/paper29.pdf)

Keibek, S. ‘By-employments and occupational structure in pre-industrial England’ (http://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/abstracts/paper30.pdf)

Stephenson, J.Z. ‘The pay of labourers and unskilled men on London building sites 1660 – 1785’, Cambridge working papers in Economic and Social History, June 2016 http://www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/working_papers.html

Stephenson, J.Z. ‘Real contracts and mistaken wages: The organisation of work and pay in London building trades, 1650 -1800’, LSE Economic History Working papers no. 231.

Grants held since October 2015 (grants awarded since October 2015 are asterisked) Bennett, R.J. (PI) and Shaw-Taylor, L. Drivers of entrepreneurship and small business, ESRC £1.3m with

History and Essex (1.11.2015 – 31.10.18) *Briggs, C. Leverhulme Trust research project Grant ‘Living standards and material culture in English

rural household 1300-1600’, £320k, 36 months, awarded July 2016, Start date 1/11/2016 *Erickson, A.L. Cambridge School of Humanities & Social Sciences Research Support Fund, just under

£20,000, June – December 2016, pilot survey of wages in 18C London, paying Judy Stephenson and Annette Mackenzie.

Reid, A. Garrett, E. & Higgs, E. (Essex). An Atlas of Victorian Fertility Decline. ESRC RG73931, 1st Jan 2015 to 31st Dec 2017. FEC £720,809, RC contribution £585,850.

*Shaw-Taylor, L. (PI), Warde, P., Wrigley, E.A. Transport, Energy and Urbanization, 1670-1911, Isaac Newton Trust, £61,310. August 2016 to November 2017. Employing Oliver Dunn, Eduard Alvarez and Xuesheng You for six months each.

Shaw-Taylor, L. British Academy Research Project, The Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911. £5k per year. 2007-2021.

Shaw-Taylor, L. Transport, Urbanization and Economic Development c.1670-1911. £278k. Leverhulme Trust, Jan 2014-Feb 2017.

*Shaw-Taylor, L. and Kabadayi, E. (PI). Industrialisation and Urban Growth from the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey in a Comparative Perspective, 1850-2000, 5-year ERC-Starting Grant, started October 2016. Erdem Kabadayi is PI. Shaw-Taylor has a consultancy role. (value to Cambridge approx. £5k per year for replacement teaching costs for Shaw-Taylor). Ends 2021.

Smith, R.M. Migration, mortality and medicalization; investigating the long-run epidemiological consequences of urbanization 1600-1945, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, 31 May 2019, £1,027,006.

Warde, P. The Power and the Water: connecting pasts with futures, AHRC, 1/10/2013-31/3/2017. (value to Cambridge: £128 897)

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Warde, P. Who did the dirty work? Energy embodied in European and global trade, 1800-1970, Swedish Research Council, 1/4/2014-31/12/2017. (value to Cambridge: £132,353)

Warde, P. Arctic Sustainable Development, MISTRA, 1/1/2015-31/3/2017. (value to Cambridge: £38,501)

Grants held during the period October 2015 - Sept 2016, now completed Smith, R.M. Core Funding for the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure,

Isaac Newton Trust, 31 December 2015, £329,667 (Final report submitted) Shaw-Taylor, L. HEIF funding from Cambridge. £30k. April 2014 to July 2016. For online atlas and

historical journey planner. Smith, R.M. Death in the First Industrial City, Isaac Newton Trust, 31 December 2015, £12,582 (Final

report submitted) Degrees awarded Akanksha Marphatia (Ph.D.) Keith Sugden (Ph.D.) Conference and seminar papers given since October 2015 ALVAREZ-PALAU, E., BOGART, D., SHAW-TAYLOR, L., SATCHELL, M. & YOU, X. ‘Structural change: Railways, endowments and occupations in Industrializing Britain’, Jean Monnet Seminars, Facultat d’Economia, Universitat de Barcelona, 3-7th October 2016. ALVAREZ-PALAU, E., SOLANAS, J., MARTÍ, J. & MORILLAS, M. ‘HGIS reconstruction of the urbanisation process’, European Social Science History Conference 2016, 30th March to 2nd April 2016, Valencia. ALVAREZ-PALAU, E. ‘Multi-modal network analysis’, Workshop on the Impact of Railways on Population Geography and Occupational Structure. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. 14-15th December 2015. Boothman, L. ‘Stability amidst change: population and kinship in Long Melford, Suffolk, 1661-1861’, presented at ‘Community, family and kin: current themes and approaches’, a conference organised jointly by the Local Population Studies Society, the British Association of Local History and the Friends of the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester; 7th November 2015. Briggs, C. ‘Access to justice: villagers in the royal courts in the fourteenth century’, Institute of Historical research, London, January 2016 Briggs, C. ‘Mortgages on a medieval English manor: Alrewas, Staffordshire, 1327-50’, Economic History Society annual conference, Cambridge, 2016 Briggs, C. ‘Access to justice: villagers in the royal courts in the fourteenth century’, Anglo-American seminar on the medieval economy and society, Stirling, July 2016 Broad, J. ‘Re-assessing the Great Rebuilding 1480-1700’, IHR London, March 2016 (invited). Broad, J. ‘Women, Property and Wills in England 16th–19th Centuries’, ESSHC, Valencia, April 2016. Davenport, R.J. ‘Smallpox in Britain’, Norfolk Family History Society, Norwich, October 17 2015 (invited). Davenport, R.J. ‘Smallpox in Britain’, Cambridge Local History Association, Cambridge, May 7 2016 (invited). Davenport, R.J. ‘The first stages of the Mortality Revolution: a perspective from evolutionary biology’ Migration, Mortality and Medicalisation Workshop, Cambridge, July 18-19, 2016. Davenport, R.J. ‘Cholera epidemics as a ‘sanitary test’ of British towns, 1832-1866’, British Society for Population Studies annual conference, Winchester, Sept 12-14 2016. Davenport, R.J. ‘The geography of smallpox in Britain in the pre-vaccination era’, European Society for Historical Demography biennial conference, Leuven, Sept 21-24 2016.

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Day, J. ‘A match made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the marriage market in the late nineteenth century’, Seminar of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, February 2016 (Invited). Day, J. ‘The importance of London, 1851-1911: Using the individual-level census data to reconstruct lifetime migration paths’, European Society of Historical Demography, Leuven, September 2016. DIEZ, A., ALVAREZ-PALAU, E. & MARTI, J. ‘Railways and Economic Growth in Europe, 1870-1910’, Jean Monnet Seminars, Facultat d’Economia, Universitat de Barcelona, 3-7th October 2016. ENFLO, K., ALVAREZ-PALAU, E. & MARTI, J. ‘Regional Inequality and Railways in the Nordic countries, 1880-2010’, Jean Monnet Seminars, Facultat d’Economia, Universitat de Barcelona, 3-7th October 2016. Erickson, A.L. ‘Negotiating social capital: apprenticing the daughters of citizens and the lower gentry in early modern urban England’, Stipulating, litigating, mediating: Gender and property, Free University of Bolzano, October 2015 (invited) Erickson, A.L. ‘Explaining gender inequality and divisions of labour’, Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe, 1st Leverhulme Network meeting, Cambridge, March 2016 Erickson, A.L. ‘Activist (economic) historians: Ellen McArthur, Annie Abram, and Alice Clark’, Generations of women historians, University of Cincinnati, April 2016 (invited) Erickson, A.L. ‘Rethinking the significance of marriage and inheritance to capital’, in panel on ‘Exploring ideology in economic and social history’, Economic History Society Conference, Cambridge, April 2016 Erickson, A.L. ‘Fans and Fanny Burney’, Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: in Honour of Anne Laurence, Institute of Historical Research, London, June 2016 (invited) Erickson, A.L. ‘Market-oriented work in England and Ireland’, Producing Change: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe, 2nd Leverhulme Network meeting, Leiden, Sept 2016 Gibbs, S. ‘The Manorial Court at Stokenham, 1560-1603: Applying a medieval methodological toolkit to an early modern manor’, Sowing the Seeds V, History Faculty, University of Cambridge, 2016. Gibbs, S. ‘Medieval Custom and Early Modern Landholding: A Case Study of Stokenham Manor’, Trinity College Arts and Humanities Symposium, Trinity College Cambridge, 2016. HERNANDEZ, M., ALVAREZ-PALAU, E., SOLANAS, J. & MARTÍ, J. ‘Carreteras y ferrocarril: estimaciones preliminares del crecimiento urbano mediante SIG’, I Congreso Hispánico de Forma Urbana ISUF-H, 15-16th September 2016, Toledo. Jaadla, H. & Reid, A. ‘The geography of infant mortality in England and Wales, 1876-1911’, Migration, Mortality and Medicalisation Workshop, Cambridge, July 18-19, 2016. Jaadla, H. & Reid, A. ‘The geography of early childhood mortality in England and Wales, 1881–1911’, European Population Conference in Mainz, Germany, August 2016. Jaadla, H. & Reid, A. ‘The geography of early childhood mortality in England and Wales, 1881–1911’, European Society of Historical Demography Conference in Leuven, Belgium, September 2016.. Jaadla, H. & Reid, A. ‘The geography of early childhood mortality in England and Wales, 1881–1911’, British Society of Population Studies Conference in Winchester, UK, September 2016.. JESTL, S., ALVAREZ-PALAU, E., HOLZNER, M. & MARTÍ, J. ‘Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans. Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since early 19th century until present days’, Wiiw IOG Conference: Falling Behind and Catching Up – Southeast Europe and East Central Europe in Comparison, Vienna. 23rd June 2016. JESTL, S., ALVAREZ-PALAU, E., HOLZNER, M. & MARTÍ, J. ‘Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans. Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since early 19th century until present days’, Jean Monnet Seminar, Facultat d’Economia, Universitat de València, 31st March 2016. Keibek, S. & Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘The (male) occupational structure of rural England and Wales’, Winter Conference of the British Agricultural History Society, London (invited) Keibek, S. ‘From inventories to households; What removing inventories' social bias reveals about eighteenth-century English consumption’, European Social Science History Conference, Valencia Keibek, S. ‘The regional and national male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1850’, Annual Conference of the Economic History Society, Cambridge Keibek, S. ‘By-employments in early-modern England: re-interpreting the evidence’, Asian Historical Economics Conference, Seoul

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KLÜSENER, S., DEVOS, I., EKAMPER, F., GREGORY, I., GRUBER, S., MARTÍ, J., ALVAREZ-PALAU, E.J., ESPINHA, L. & SOLLI, A. ‘Determinants of Spatial Variation in Infant Mortality and its Decline Across Europe 1910-1930’, European Social Science History Conference 2016, 30th March to 2nd April 2016, Valencia. Newton, G. ‘Employers with multiple occupations in the 1881 Census’, Economic History Society Conference, Cambridge. Newton, G. ‘‘The English Disease’: rickets after 1600 – diagnosis, environment and social customs of childcare’, British Society for Population Studies Conference, Winchester Radicic, D., Douglas D., Pugh, G. and Jackson, I. ‘Cooperation for innovation and its impact on technological and non-technological innovations: empirical evidence for European manufacturing SMEs’, presented by Dragana Radicic at the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), 11-12 November, 2015, Glasgow. Radicic, D. and Balavac, M. ‘Complementarities between Internal and External Innovation Activities: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms’, 36th International Business Research Conference (BRC), Toronto, Canada, 14-16 July 2016. Reid, A. ‘A detailed geography of early-age mortality in England and Wales, 1851-1911’, European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, April 2016. Reid, A. ‘The Geography of the Fertility Decline in England and Wales’, British Society for Population Studies, Winchester, September 2016. Reid, A. ‘The Geography of the Fertility Decline in England and Wales’, European Society for Historical Demography Conference, Leuven, September 2016. Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘Occupations, population and economy: integrating local, regional and national accounts’, British Association for Local History, November 2016 (invited) Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘Population and Occupational Data’, ‘The Towns Database’, ‘The Limitations of the Social Savings Approach’, Workshop on The Impact of Railways on Population Geography and Occupational Structure, University of Cambridge, December 2015 Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘Estimating Occupational Structure in England and Wales c.1710-1911’, European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, March/April 2016 Shaw-Taylor, L. Keynote, Post-graduate conference: Facing the challenge of bias in History. Cambridge, May 2016 (invited) Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘The recent history of occupational structure and regional economic strategy in non-metropolitan regions’, University of British Columbia (Okanagen Campus) Canada, June 2016 (invited) Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘The escape from Malthusian constraints 1300-1900’, Malthus Conference, University of Cambridge, June 2016 (invited) Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘The escape from Malthusian constraints 1300-1900’, University of Birmingham Conference: Economic Growth and Economic History, June 2016 (invited) Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘Population and Occupational Data, Towns and Transport: An overview of data available for the mortality project’, Mortality Workshop, Cambridge, July 2016 (invited) Shaw-Taylor, L. ‘Identifying towns and their constituent units in England and Wales 1381-1911’, Defining and Identifying Historical Towns Workshop, University of Cambridge, October 2016. Smith, R.M. ‘How agricultural was England in 1381’, British Agricultural History Society Winter Conference, Institute of Historical Research, December 2015. Smith, R.M. ‘Malthus and Welfare Revisited’, Malthus: Food, Labour and People, Jesus College and CRASSH, University of Cambridge, June 2016. Smith, R.M. ‘Migration, mortality and medicalization: the long-run consequences of urbanization 1600-1945’, Migration, Mortality and Medicalisation Workshop, University of Cambridge, July 2016. Stephenson, J. ‘The pay of labourers and unskilled men on London building sites 1660 – 1785’, presented at European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, March 30th 2016. Sugden, K. ‘The Timing and Impact of the Mechanization of Cotton Manufacture upon Male and Female Employment, 1780-1830. The rise of adult male spinning’, ESSHC, Valencia, March 2016. Sugden, R. and Sugden, K. ‘Economic Development of the BC Interior: A Case Study of Occupations in the Okanagan, Late 19th to Early 20th Century’, University of British Columbia, Research Workshop, The Recent History of Occupational Structure and Regional Economic Strategy in Non-metropolitan Regions, Kelowna BC, June 2016 (invited).

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Sugden, R. and Sugden, K. ‘Economic Development of the BC Interior: A Case Study of Occupations in the Okanagan, Late 19th to Early 20th Century’, The Canadian Network for Economic History, Ottawa, June 2016. Wakelam, A. ‘“Enjoying the ‘comforts of ease & affluence”: The experience of female retirement in the diary of Miss Sarah Florry, 1744-1812’ History Graduate Research Day Conference, University of Cambridge, April 25th 2016. Wakelam, A. ‘Enumerating the female workforce in early modern England – the bias of marital signifiers in surviving source material’, ‘Facing the Challenges of Bias in History: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches’ one-day conference, University of Cambridge, May 15th 2016. Warde, P. ‘Soil sustainability, and the fate of empire, c.1750-1870’, University of Warwick, invited. Warde, P. ‘Soil sustainability, and the fate of empire, c.1750-1870’, British Agricultural History Society Spring conference. Warde, P. ‘A short history of scarcity’, Cambridge University Engineering Department, invited. Warde, P. ‘Histories of Blame. Categories and culpability in the history of capital and the environment’, Colloquium on Capitalism and the Environment, University of Chicago/Paris, invited. Williams, S. ‘Did unmarried parents feel shame?’ University of Leicester on 17 March 2016 and 1 June 2016 Institute of Continuing Education. Yang, C. ‘Long Run Regional Economic Development and Population Density in Late Imperial China 1776-1910’, Eleventh European Social Science History conference in Valencia, 30 March - 2 April 2016. Yang, C. ‘Long Run Regional Standard of Living, Population Density and Food Price in Late Imperial China 1776-1911’, Datini Institute, Prato, Italy & Ester (European Graduate School for Training in Economics and Social Historical Research). Undergraduate and graduate teaching and examining undertaken since October 2015 (supervisions, lectures and directing studies) Briggs, C. Historical Tripos Part I Paper 8 British Economic and Social History 1050-1500: lectures & supervisions; Historical Tripos Part II special subject ‘The Black Death’ classes; Historical Tripos Part I Themes and Sources, classes for the courses ‘Money and Society’ and ‘Earning a living’; Examiner, Historical Tripos Part I, papers 3 & 8. Davenport, R.J. 5 lectures and 12 classes for part II course ‘Historical Demography’, with Alice Reid (Geography); 3 lectures, 6 tutorials for Human Sciences Honours School course ‘Demography’ (University of Oxford); 2 lectures for M.Stud. in Local History (Cambridge, Madingley Hall). Examiner for Human Sciences Honours School (Oxford) and M.Stud. in Local History (Cambridge, Madingley Hall). Day, J. Internal Examiner MSt History (University of Cambridge). Erickson, A.L. Convenor, Paper 9: British Economic & Social History 1500-1750: 15 x 1-hour lectures; Convenor, Themes & Sources: Earning a living; 12 x 2-hour seminars; 90 hours supervision; MPhil classes, 2 x 2-hour seminars; Examined Part I: 60 scripts; Part II: 10 scripts, 10 long essays, 4 dissertations; MPhil: 3 long essays, 3 dissertations; University Examiner, Institute of Continuing Education, MSt in History (2015-2017) Garrett, E. 1 Lecture to students on MSC in Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield. Keibek, S. Supervisions in Paper 10 for the History Tripos (Economic and Social History of Britain, 1600-1880); Revision lectures on the Industrial Revolution for Paper 10 in the History Tripos; ‘Themes and Sources: Earning a living 1377-1911: work, occupations, gender & economic development in England’, lectures/group session moderation for the History Tripos. Newton, G. Databases class, Themes and Sources: Earning a living 1377-1911 Part I undergraduate course, Faculty of History; IT for historians (2 classes), Module 3, MSt History, Institute of Continuing Education. Potter, E. Demonstrator, Working with Databases (Part IA: Geographic Skills and Methods), Department of Geography. Demonstrator, IT for Historians (MSt History: Module 3 - Sources, Methods and Research Skills), Institute of Continuing Education.

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Radicic, D. Lectures and seminars in Business Economics and Economics for Accounting and Finance at Bournemouth University. Reid, A. Geography Department: Part 1A geography: Working with geographic databases. Lecture/classes; Part II geography: Historical Demography course. Lectures/classes; Part II geography: making sense of data lecture; Subject Convenor for Geography; Chair: 1A/1B exam board; Geography Department representative to CUQM; Member of Undergraduate Teaching Committee (Geography Department); Member of Information Resources Committee (Geography Department). Churchill College: Director of Studies in Geography; Part 1A geography: various supervisions; Part 1B geography: various supervisions. MSt Local History: lecture on census, LT 2016. Satchell, M. ‘GIS for Historians’, 8 classes, Faculty of History. Shaw-Taylor, L. 16 Lectures on British Economic History 1700-1870, Paper 10, Faculty of History; Lectures of Agriculture 1500-1850, Papers 9 and 10, Faculty of History; Four classes. Themes and Source paper, Earning a Living 1381-1911. Taught with Amy Erickson, Sebastian Keibek and Chris Briggs; Two lectures for Historical Argument and Practice (HAP); How to get the most out of seminars. Three graduate classes, M.Phil in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History; Economic Growth and Economic Development. One graduate class, M.Phil in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History; British Industrialization, advanced paper, M.Phil in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History. Five classes. Smith, R.M. Madingley M. Stud 1 lecture April 2016. Warde, P. Lectures for Part I Paper 9 and 16, and Part II paper 20. Supervisions for same. Co-convenor of ‘World Environmental History’ Themes & Sources course. Teaching on M.Phil in Economic and Social History, and M.Phil in Early Modern History. Lecture for Part I course on Sustainability in Land Economy. Part II Examiner. Part II and M.Phil dissertation examiner. Doctoral Examination for University of Warwick. Williams, S. History Tripos Papers 10 and HAP; ICE Certificate (level 4) ‘Crime the social order, 1500-1900’, ICE Advanced Diploma (dissertation) supervision; Examining MPhil In Early Modern History dissertations; External examining University of Leicester MPhil and University of Oxford DPhil. Research supervision (undergraduate, MPhil and PhD students) conducted since October 2015 Alvarez-Palau, E. HOSTA, Pau: “Estratègia de pacificació del centre històric de Moià”. Masters thesis. Masters in City Management and Urbanism. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2015-16. MARTÍN, Rubén: “La movilidad sostenible como herramienta de recuperación del espaio público: una oportunidad para Valencia”. Trabajo Final de Máster. Masters thesis. Masters in City Management and Urbanism. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2015-16. Briggs, C. Spike Gibbs PhD; Rosalind Russell MPhil in Medieval History; Jacopo Sartori MPhil in Medieval History. Davenport, R.J. Ellen Potter (joint supervisor with Alice Reid). Erickson, A.L. 1 undergraduate dissertation: Shivani Khosla, now doing Early Modern MPhil; 1 MPhil dissertation: Miriam Goodall, now taking a year out but planning for PhD; new M.Phils. in 2016-17: Mung Lar Lam, Beth Kitson, Shivani Khosla. 4 PhD students: Sophie McGeevor, Estelle Overs, Alex Wakelam, Imogen Wedd. Radicic, D. 3 undergraduate and 3 MSc students at Bournemouth University. Reid, A. Akanksha Marphatia, PhD – submitted Feb 2016, graduated July 2016; Irene Haycock, PhD (official supervisor with Richard Smith), Ellen Potter, PhD (with Romola Davenport). Shaw-Taylor, L. Ph.D students: Sophie McGeevor (with Amy Erickson), Sebastian Keibek, Cheng Yang, Josh Ivinson (moved to Paul Warde from Easter 2016). M.Stud Madingley students: Matthew McKinnon (now completed), Masayuki Mori, Andreas Dukakis. M.Phil in Economic and Social History: Markus Block (now completed). Incoming M.Phil student 2016-2017: Alex Powers. Warde, P. Emiliano Travieso (M.Phil in Economic and Social History), Kayt Button (Ph.D), Josh Ivinson (PhD), Elizabeth Scott (Ph.D at UEA, now completed). Williams, S. Two PhD students; 5 M.St. students.

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Visitors to the Group since October 2015 Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester, Sept 2015-Sept 2017); Vicente Perez Moreda (May 2016); Hana Nielsen (Lund University, 5/2016-7/2016); Sofia Henriques (Lund University, 5/2016-7/2016); Marta Gravela (University of Turin, Nov 2015 – July 2016); Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University, April 2015 – Mar 2016); Erdem Kabadayi (Koç University, Oct 2015 – Aug 2016); Mark Thomas (University of Virginia, Jan – June 2015), Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University, July 2016); Jonas Lindstrom (Upsala University, May 2016), Berkay Küçükbaşlarv (Boğaziçi University) and Mung Lar Lam (Parsons School of Design / New School, New York, Dec 2015); Luis Almenar (University of Valencia, 15-9-16 to 15-12-16); Dan Bogart (University of California at Irvine, April 2016 and July 2016); Jordi Marti-Henneberg (Lleida University, July to November 2016). Other professional activities Alvarez-Palau, E. Academic organiser of the seminar: “Studying GDP regional imbalances for a better long-term analysis of European Integration”, held in the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia. 31st March 2016. Boothman, L. Vice chair of Local Population Studies Society; Co-coordinator of joint conference ‘Community, family and kin: current themes and approaches’ a conference organised jointly by the Local Population Studies Society, the British Association of Local History and the Friends of the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester; 7th November 2015. Briggs, C. Co-editor, Continuity and change; Co-editor, Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History; Convenor, Medieval Economic and Social history seminar, Faculty of History Broad, J. President, British Agricultural History Society; Chair, Buckinghamshire Record Society; Editor, Records of Buckinghamshire. Button, K. Organisational roles for Energy History and Big Data Workshops at Cambridge; Organisational and Editorial role for Doing History in Public group and blog; Producing maps to return to records offices as digital repositories of their maps. Davenport, R.J. British Society for Population Studies council member, History Group of the Royal Statistical Society member, associate of the Human Sciences Institute, Oxford. Day, J. Yr 10 ‘Taster’ Lectures (Jesus College, Cambridge). Erickson, A.L. Partner in Leverhulme Network (2016-19) Producing Change: Gender & Work in Early Modern Europe; Convenor, Women’s History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London; Council, British Record Society; Advisory Committee, British Academy Hearth Tax Project; Conference Committee, Economic History Society; Convenor, Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar, History Faculty. Garrett, E. Language Editor for Population Studies and Continuity and Change; Organised interdisciplinary Colloquium on Data Linkage with members of the ‘Digitising Scotland’ project. Gibbs, S., Potter, E. Yang, C. Co-conveners for the conference: Facing the Challenge of Bias in History: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, History Faculty, University of Cambridge, 2016 . Gibbs, S., Yang, C. Co-conveners for the Economic and Social History Graduate Workshop, History Faculty, University of Cambridge (with Atiyab Sultan). Gibbs, S. Co-organiser for Trinity College Arts and Humanities Symposium (with Albert Fenton, Andrew Lorey and Julianne Pigot). Ivinson, J. Participant in the ERC-funded ‘Environmental History of the North Atlantic 1400-1700’ project based at Trinity College, Dublin (2016-2020). Keibek, S. New Researcher prize, Economic History Society conference 2016; blog post for Economic History Society blog ‘The long run’ on ‘Quantifying historical developments in occupational structures’. Newton, G. Book reviews editor for Continuity and Change. Potter, E. Bursary from Economic History Society to attend their conference.

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Radicic, D. Best Papers Award at 36th International Business Research Conference (BRC), Toronto, Canada, 14-16 July 2016, Radicic, D. and Balavac, M. ‘Complementarities between Internal and External Innovation Activities: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms’. Reid, A. Population Studies, consulting editor; Population Investigation Committee, member & Chair of Scholarship committee; IUSSP Panel on Historical Demography, member; European Society for Historical Demography, Vice-President; History Group of the Royal Statistical Society, member; Team member of Digitising Scotland project (based at Scottish Longitudinal Study). Shaw-Taylor, L. Convenor (with Amy Erickson and Duncan Needham), Core seminar in economic and social history, Faculty of History; Convenor (with Cristiano Ristuccia) Quantitative History seminar; Convenor (with Amy Erickson, Craig Mudrew and Paul Warde) Early modern economic and social history seminar; Convenor (with Romola Davenport and Alice Reid) Cambridge Group seminar. Director (with Prof. Osamu Saito) of the International Comparative History of Occupational Structure (INCHOS) project since 2007, which brings together scholars working on the occupational structures of 20 countries on four continents. Organiser (with Prof. Gareth Austin) of the African Comparative History of Occupational Structure (AFCHOS) project. We organised a double session at the European Social Science History Conference at Valencia in March 2016 and a panel at the African Studies UK (ASUK) conference, Cambridge, in September 2016. An edited volume is now planned. A session proposal has been submitted to for the World Congress of Economic History in Boston in 2018. Organiser, workshop on ‘The Impact of Railways on Population Geography and Occupational Structure’, Cambridge, December 2015. Co-organiser (with Erdem Kabadayi) of two sessions on occupational structure at the European Social Science History Conference, Valencia 2016. Organiser, workshop on ‘Defining and Identifying Historical Towns’ with international participation (from China and Turkey), Cambridge, October 2016. Member of ESRC Peer Review panel. Member EHS, BAHS. Reviewer for various journals. Director of Cambridge Group and member of management committee. New website on the transport project: http://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/transport/ Smith, R.M. Fellow of the British Academy, Editorial Board of Economic History Review, Chair of the Editorial Board of Records of Social and Economic History British Academy, Vice-President and Council Member, Economic History Society, Chair of Governors, Stour Valley Community School, Trustee Isaac Newton Trust, Vice-Chair Clare Castle Country Park Trust. Stephenson, J. Elected member of council for Economic History Society, April 2016. Book contract with Macmillan Palgrave for Contracts and pay: Work in London Construction 1650 1785 to be published 2017. Elected Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford to 2019. Received Power Postan funding from the IHR for a colloquium on Wage formation Sept 16th 2016. Van Lieshout, C. Organising committee of AHRC ECR conference, tbh December 2016. Warde, P. Research Director at the Centre for History and Economics, Magdalene College, Cambridge; Senior Editor, History and Policy; Management committee, British Agricultural History Society; Advisory Board of Scandia, Environment and History; Routledge Environmental Humanities series and Ashgate Rural Worlds series. Williams, S. Member of Local Population Studies Society and the Economic History Society. Yang, C. Shortlisted for the Professor Jan Lucassen Award (PhD paper prize), European Social Science History Conference 2016; trainee in Workshop on Local Primary Sources on Late Imperial China (900-1900), jointly held by Cambridge-PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres). You, X. Joint winner of Ellen McArthur Prize for best dissertation in Economic History. Referee for Economic History Review.