Death, disease, environment and social status: new approaches to mortality in England 1380-1860

 

A Wellcome sponsored workshop held at the

 

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

 

May 22nd, 2009

 

10.30 am to 4.00 pm

 

Programme:

 

All papers will be 20 minutes maximum, to allow time for discussion. Abstracts are now available on the site as indicated below.

 

The workshop will be held in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and
Social Structure, William Hardy Building, Downing Place; Dept of Geography; University of
Cambridge; Cambridge CB3 2EN.

 

Those wishing to attend should contact Richard Smith (rms20@cam.ac.uk) or Jeremy Boulton (j.p.boulton@ncl.ac.uk)

 

 

10.30-11.00pm

Coffee

 

 

11-1am

Introduction: Jeremy Boulton

 

 

 

Rebecca Oakes "New perspectives on mortality in medieval England: a comparison of Winchester and New Colleges(c.1390-1540) with Benedictine monasteries at Canterbury, Westminster and Durham" PDF abstract

 

 

 

Stuart Basten "Mapping fatal diseases in eighteenth-century London" PDF abstract

 

 

 

Alice Reid "Mortality and social status in Victorian Scotland". PDF abstract

 

 

1-1.45 pm

Lunch

 

 

1.45-3.45 pm

Gill Newton and Richard Smith "Status and environment as determinants of infant mortality change in London c. 1650-1750" PDF abstract

 

 

 

Romola Davenport, "Infant and young adult mortality in London’s West End’ 1750-1824" PDF abstract

 

 

 

Jeremy Boulton, "Social status and disease: diagnosis and cause of death information in Georgian London" PDF abstract

 

 

3.45 pm

Closing remarks: Tony Wrigley

 

Pauper Biographies Site