History of Population

EASTER TERM SEMINARS 2012

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Sir William Hardy Building

Department of Geography

Downing Place, Cambridge  CB2 3EN

Room 101

Sir William Hardy Building

Monday 30^th April

This seminar will be starting at 12:45  p.m.

Eric Schneider (Oxford University)

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

Monday 14^th May

Please note - This seminar will be starting at 1 p.m.

Professor Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado)

‘Poor relief and community in Elizabethan Hadleigh’

Monday 25^th June

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.  The first paper will present an overview of a number of papers using the Group reconstitutions.  The second will present one of the papers more fully.

(1)  ‘New findings from the family reconstitution data.’

This presentation will summarize the following papers: ‘Birth spacing’, Jacob Weisdorf, Marc Klemp, Francesco Cinnirella; ‘The child QQ trade-off’, Jacob Weisdorf, Marc Klemp; ‘Survival of the richest’, Jacob Weisdorf, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Paul Sharp; ‘Lasting damage’, Jacob Weisdorf, Marc Klemp; ‘Human capital’, Jacob Weisdorf, Nina Boberg-Fazlic.

(2)  ‘Nothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.’   Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Nina Boberg-Fazlic & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen

Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30 p.m on the 30^th April,

from 1 pm on the 14^th of May and at 1.15 p.m on the 25^th June.

For a printable version of this programme, please see below

Easter 2012 programme

Sir William Hardy Building

Department of Geography

Downing Place, Cambridge  CB2 3EN

12:45 pm in Room 101

Monday 30^th January

Simon Szreter (Faculty of History)

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

Monday 13 ^th February

Peter Kitson (Cambridge Group)

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

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

For a printable version of this programme, please see below

Lent 2012 programme