The Faculty
Professor Simon Szreter
Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Research Supervision
Modern Social, Family, Gender and Demographic History and Policy. Completed PhD students have worked on: Male Legislators and Women's Rights in Britain 1866-86; the Family and Health Policy in Bulgaria, 1918-44; The role of Residents’ and Housing Associations in the Portuguese Revolution 1974-5, The reception of Yoga and Ayurveda in Twentieth-century Britain; A comparative local study of parent-child relations in England c.1850-1910. Current research students are working on: British government dietary policy and the influence of pressure groups c.1970-90; Disinfection in Victorian cities c.1850-1914; Public Health, politics and sanitation in Coimbra, Portugal c.1880-1930'; and Borders and identity registration systems in South Africa and the Indian Ocean c.1890-1920
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
Faculty Lecturer and College supervisor for Part I courses in modern British economic and social history 1700-1914 and 1870-2010. Course Co-ordinator and supervisor for Part II Paper 6, 'World population, development and environment since 1750: comparative history and policy’
Graduate Teaching
M.Phil in Economic and Social History: ‘Core Concepts in Economic and Social Theory and History’; and Course Tutor on advanced paper, ‘Economic growth, health and politics since 1750’.
Key Publications
- Fertility, class and gender in Britain 1860-1940 (1996)
- Changing family size in England and Wales 1891-1911: place, class and demography (with E.Garrett, A.Reid and K.Schurer) (2001)
- Categories and Contexts. Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography. Co-edited with H. Sholamy, A. Dharmlingam, Oxford University Press International Studies in Demography (2004)
- Health and Wealth. Studies in History and Policy (2005)
- Sex Before the Sexual Revolution. Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (co-authored with K.Fisher) (2010).