📣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...

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

Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Great to spot @camunicampop.bsky.social ‘s data used in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Look at this wonderful new paper by @emvchung.bsky.social from @camunicampop.bsky.social !

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

📣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

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...

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...

📣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

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...

📣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

📣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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A double bill this week to celebrate International Women’s Day!!

📣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

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...

📣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

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...

Have a look at our most recent paper by Chris Briggs from @camunicampop.bsky.social #medievalhistory #skystorian

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...

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.

📣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

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...

📣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

In the lead-up to this year's Urban History Group Conference, Emily Chung reflects on the state of urban history and the implications of digital developments for the field. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/n... @emvchung.bsky.social @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social #skystorians

Campop blog #34: In 1500 about 50% of England and Wales was common land, but as Leigh Shaw-Taylor explains in today's blog, this does not mean that everyone could access it, and most agricultural labourers could not. @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

📣New blog post alert! 📣 Who had access to common land in the past, and how extensive were common rights? Our latest blog post by Leigh Shaw-Taylor demonstrates that it was not such an open system as we might assume, even before enclosure... www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians

Interested in how the opportunity cost of women's time, social support systems, and human development indicators interact? Another great post in the Campop 60th birthday series

Un nouveau post sur le site du Cambridge groupe (quel rythme !). Cette fois, c'est Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social qui nous parle de la vulnérabilité des mères ayant des enfants hors mariage et de ces enfants (sujet qui me tient beaucoup à cœur également). Lisez, c'est passionnant !

📣New post alert!📣 It is common to assume that unmarried mothers and their children were disadvantaged in the past - and it is true that they did have notably worse life outcomes. But why? @amrcampop.bsky.social explores some social, economic, and demographic factors. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog

Working from home in the past?? Another wonderful post from the Cambridge Group: Amy Erickson for this one

Campop blog #32: Covid19 led to a sudden rise in Working From Home, and many people still WFH. But WFH has a long history - in today's blog Amy Erickson describes the wide range of work done from home in past centuries @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/01...

📣New blog post alert! 📣 The covid pandemic radically changed where - and how - we work. WFH became the "new normal", with much of the extra domestic burden falling on women. But was this, in fact, a break with the past - or a return to historical norms? www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians

📢New #CAMPOP blog post The UK economy is dominated by the service sector. But when did the sector become dominant & when did it begin to grow? Many think this is a recent phenomenon, but the latest post from @camunicampop.bsky.social tells a different story...