Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales

Phil Slavin (University of Stirling) .

Board Room, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales

Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) and Gabriel Mesevage (King’s College, London) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony

Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 13:15-14:30

How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911

Hillary Vipond (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden

Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913

Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period

Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic

Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects

Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920

Cancelled due to industrial action

Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark

Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries

Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office

Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar

Professor David Green (King's College London).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-14:30

Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London

Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries

Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge).

JCR, Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England

Tom Heritage (Southampton).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries

Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915

Eric Schneider (LSE).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades

Note unusual time

Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:00-11:00

Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010

Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973

Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses

Bob Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:15-14:15

'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition

Alice Reid (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared

Richard Smith (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône, South of France)

Isabelle Séguy (French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines

Jean-Pascal Bassino (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon; Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland

Note start time of 5pm

Alan Fernihough (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Eli Nomes (University of Leuven).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon

James Boyd (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911

James Perry (Lancaster).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Drainage and water supply in 18th century London

Carry van Lieshout (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs

Diego Carnevale (Birkbeck).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes

Frederik Pedersen (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia

Pavla Jirkova (CERGE-EI, Prague).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition

Joseph Molitoris (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century

Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe

Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History

Please note earlier start time of 12.10pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available at the start.

Professor Deng Hui, Peking University .

Seminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

Monday 13 July 2015, 12:10-13:00

Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name?

Dr Isabelle Devos (Ghent University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919

Dr Eric Schneider (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Revisiting the Urban Graveyard Debate: An analysis of mortality differences between natives and migrants in North-Western European port cities: Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1930

Dr Paul Puschmann (University of Leuven).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900

Hannaliis Jaadla (Tallinn University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources

Stefan Öberg (University of Gothenburg).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 June 2014, 13:00-14:15

The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain

Dr Antonio Cámara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834

Dr Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 April 2014, 13:00-14:15

What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852

Professor Janet McCalman and Dr Rebecca Kippen (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 January 2014, 13:00-14:15

Real wages and the household: Quantifying the economy of makeshifts of the poor in 18th-century England

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Eric Schneider, Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 10 June 2013, 12:45-14:00

The volcano Laki in 1783: a serial killer? A French-English comparison

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Dr Emmanuel Garnier, University of Caen.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 20 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Professor Tim Guinnane, Department of Economics, Yale University.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 13 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Dr Hiroaki Muppy Matsuura, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 06 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Prof. Jeremy Boulton, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.

Seminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

Monday 11 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Dr Amornrat Bunnag, Academic Officer, Centre of Doctrine and Strategic Development, Army Training Command, Bangkok..

Seminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

Monday 28 January 2013, 12:45-14:00

(1) ‘New findings from the family reconstitution data.’ and (2) ‘Nothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.’

Please note that this extended seminar will run from 12 till 3pm. There will be two papers with a break for sandwiches 1.15 to 1.45.

’ Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Nina Boberg-Fazlic & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 25 June 2012, 12:00-15:00

Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh

*Please note this seminar will start at the later time of 1 p.m.

Professor Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 14 May 2012, 13:00-14:30

Real Wages and the Family: Adjusting Real Wages to Changing Demography in Pre-Modern England

Eric Schneider (Oxford University).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 30 April 2012, 12:45-14:00

‘Industrialisation and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community, c. 1600-1684’

Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30 p.m.

Dr. Peter Kitson (Cambridge Group).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 13 February 2012, 12:45-14:00

The prevalence of venereal diseases in 1913. Who was right? Christabel Pankhurst or the Royal Commission?

Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30.

Dr. Simon Szreter.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 30 January 2012, 12:45-14:00

Illusions of exactness: counting Scotland's population before 1801

Sandwiches available from 12:30

Professor Michael Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

Sir William Hardy Building, HB101.

Monday 16 May 2011, 12:45-13:45

Does Gibrat’s Law hold for all times and all places? A study of the growth of British cities prior to 1913

Tim Leunig and Alex Klein (LSE).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 07 March 2011, 12:45-13:45

English Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 21 February 2011, 12:45-13:45

Contemporary perceptions of international migrants in England and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries

Cancelled. This talk will be re-scheduled for the Easter term.

Jelle van Lottum (Cambridge Group).

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 07 February 2011, 00:00-00:00

Gender inequality and change in stature in India during the Twentieth Century

Dr Aravindra Guntupalli (University of Tübingen).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 27 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cities, markets and the sea: Explaining the ups and downs of height in early nineteenth century England and Wales

Tim Leunig (London School of Economics).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 13 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Widows, wills and economic assets in pre-industrial Britain

Richard Wall (University of Essex).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 30 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Household and plague in early modern Italy

Professor Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 16 October 2006, 13:00-14:00