Today's CAMPOP blog explains how across most of British history the most common age at adult death was around 70, even though life expectancy was below 40. By Jim Oeppen and Romola Davenport Cambridge Geography campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/1…

Many people think women entered the paid workforce in significant numbers only after WW1 & WW2. Amy Erickson explains why that's wrong in this CAMPOP blog campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/0… Cam Econ&Soc History

Campop blog #10: Rural to urban migration was common in the British past, but there's a pervasive idea that those who didn't move to a town stayed put in their village of birth. Kevin Schurer describes the surprising amount of intra-rural migration campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/08/2…

Free access to our paper in Journal of Global Ageing on age reporting in older people until end of Oct. Also see summary in n-iussp niussp.org/individual-and…

Campop blog #13: In 2021 only 7.6% of people in E&W walked to work and around half travelled by car - a massive change from modes of travel in the pre-1800 era, which are explained by Alan Rosevear in this week's blog CAMPOP campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/1…

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Did you know that 2022 was the first year that more births in England and Wales took place outside marriage (or civil partnership) than within? But how common was sex before marriage in the British past? Find out in our latest blog post: campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #twitterstorians

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New blog post alert! Today, over 1 in 5 of the UK population are aged 60 and over. We tend to think that in the past, old people were more scarce. But was this the case, and how did it change over time? #twitterstorians campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog

What kept the rich and poor part in industrial Manchester? Read my blog about this and many more on Top of the CamPops!