Local Population Studies

Local, social, and population history.
We support and publish original research by academic and non-academic historians.

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

Booking now: our autumn conference (on Zoom) is on 9 October. It's FREE, and you can look forward to these papers on the theme of the British diaspora.

For more information and the booking form, see our website https://t.co/qyyU7X8C4W

[Davis Kedrosky @dkedrosky]

Just realized that I never noted the passing of Sir E. A. Wrigley, the legendary British demographer and economic historian, on February 24. Here's a short thread on someone whose research and writing made a big difference to the way that I think about the Industrial Revolution.

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

This is part of a series of online lectures organised by the Society. Topics include: gravedigging, vaults and their contents, and Welsh cadaver tombs
https://t.co/LroSx7I32h

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

An online lecture for #Halloween from the Church Monuments Society 🎃🪦👻

Macabre tombs expert, Dr Roger Bowdler, looks at depictions of death and decay in monuments.
https://t.co/TO5cp3GNoD

[CILIP Local Studies @CILIP_LSG]

Nominations now open for Alan Ball Awards 2021: #localhistory publication of the year https://t.co/XLaFgngG8Q

[Midland History @MidlandHistory]

Submissions for the Midland History Annual Essay Prize 2021 are now invited. A prize of £400 is offered. Entries must be based on a historical subject relating to the English Midlands. Closing date 31 October 2021. For details and entry criteria visit https://t.co/8CdUm8FOzL

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

Booking now: our autumn conference (on Zoom) is on 9 October. It's FREE, and you can look forward to these papers on the theme of the British diaspora.

For more information and the booking form, see our website https://t.co/qyyU7X8C4W

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

Black Lives, British Justice: Black People in London Criminal Justice Records, 1720-1841
https://t.co/Z3banKliNs
@Adam_Crymble

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

Several new data papers have caught our eye. Good to see historians producing this kind of v. useful work

Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households 1300-1600
Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, and Ben Jervis
https://t.co/bf59LevMX2

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

Alex Beard's work has been published online by Bristol Record Society: https://t.co/tZZm4eykpO
(Nice to see a record society using the Internet Archive)

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

History student uncovers new details about 17th century plague hospital in Bristol
https://t.co/fKcregdlAL

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

The resource Public Petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918 may be useful to local and social historians

[IHR Wohl Library @IHR_Library]

Just a few more reasons to join the IHR library! - 4 electronic resources added to our collections which are avaialble offsite to all IHR library members. And remember membership to the library is free and open to everyone.
https://t.co/5wc0qW0KLK

[CILIP Local Studies @CILIP_LSG]

One million pages made free on British Newspaper Archive https://t.co/4P81N8UwM3

[CILIP Local Studies @CILIP_LSG]

Nominations now open for the McCulla Award 2021.

If you know an outstanding local studies librarian, let us know by 31 October.
#localhistory #librarians https://t.co/j5klJv6jbI

[Dr Megan Yates @Megan_Yates_96]

Fantastic prize and opportunity. Editors have been nothing but friendly and helpful with me! Would strongly encourage submissions to this, get writing!

[The Project Team @AHRCpoorlaw]

More news: project lecture at the University of York on 7 October at 6pm by Dr Pete Collinge, entitled 'Small Bills and Petty Finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law'. It will be recorded for anyone who can't attend in person.

[Local Population Studies @LocalPopStudies]

@MollyAunt Interesting. Did Hoppit's 'Risk and Failure' book look at this?

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

*NEW BLOG POST* One of our volunteers has written about Irish people living in #Uttoxeter in 1851, and has looked at the Cunningham family, who probably moved there in the wake of the potato famine in #Ireland. https://t.co/FRe2x291yK

[VCH Staffordshire @VCH_Staffs]

See our latest blog post, written by one of our volunteers: ‘Infant names in mid 19th century Uttoxeter’ https://t.co/FR6UhHlhvk