From the AYHD Board
Summer School at Cambridge University
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure organises the ESHD Summer Training School: ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility.’ It will take place 6-17 July 2026 in Cambridge. Young/early career historical demographers are encouraged to apply! Some funding is available for PhD students or recent graduates. The application deadline is 2 February 2026, more info below!
“One Epidemic, Many Estimates” (1EME)
One of our Board members, Hampton (h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk), is organising a “many analysts” project on excess mortality modelling. Researchers are welcome to sign up, by themselves or in groups, to receive the same harmonised set of mortality data related to the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States and then to model the pandemic’s excess mortality using the model of their choice. Then, participants will be invited to attend a workshop at the London School of Economics on 21–22 May 2026 (bursaries available) and to contribute to a joint journal article that reports the excess mortality estimates and recommends best practices. You can find out more details here!
Spotlight Article
Every newsletter we will spotlight one article or working paper by a young historical demographer or researcher in an adjacent field. Would you like to have your work shared or do you know a recent paper that deserves to be spotlighted? Send an email to Joris (joris.kok@iisg.nl) with information on the research you would like to see shared.
This newsletter’s spotlight article is:
Rural matriarchs: hypogamy, kinship networks and
female agency in 19th-century Frisia
Published in The History of the Family by Boike Teunissen (University of Groningen). You can read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2026.2613994.
Upcoming events and deadlines
51st Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference
📍 Washington, D.C.
📆 28-30 May 2026
⏰ 31 January 2026
ℹ️ EBHS
GreatLeap Workshop: “Putting Mortality on the Map: A Workshop on the Use of Spatial Methods to Study the Urban Mortality Transition”
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
📆 20-21 August 2026
⏰ 1 February 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
ESHD Summer Training School: ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility.’
📍 University of Cambridge
📆 6-17 July 2026
⏰ 2 February 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
ESHD and GreatLeap Summer Training School: “Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility”
📍 Cambridge, UK
📆 6-17 July 2026
⏰ 2 February 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Cambridge Quantitative History Seminar: “Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence” (Leigh Shaw-Taylor)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 4 February 2026 (from 5 pm GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
Campop Seminar: “Whether and when: Split-population cure models of women’s work and parity progression in Derbyshire, 1881-1911”
(Emma Diduch)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 11 February 2026 (16:15 – 17:45 GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
15th Annual Conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
📍 Université Libre de Bruxelles
📆 1-3 July 2026
⏰ 13 February 2026
ℹ️ Population Europe
Cambridge Quantitative History Seminar: “State and Industrialization in Turkey since 1930” (Şevket Pamuk)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 18 February 2026 (from 5 pm GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
London Population Seminar: Title TBA (Liliana Andriano)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 26 February 2026 (13:45–15:00)
ℹ️ London Population Seminar
GreatLeap Workshop: “Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time”
📍 Wageningen University
📆 27 February 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Workshop: “Unequal war: demographic and social-historical perspectives”
📍 Tampere University
📆 9-11 September 2026
⏰ 1 March 2026
ℹ️ Tampere University
Crafts Lecture and Workshop on the Economics of Education and Institutions
📍 University of Warwick
📆 3-4 March 2026
ℹ️ University of Warwick
Campop Seminar: “Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past” (Colin Pooley)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 4 March 2026 (16:15 – 17:45 GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
Cambridge Quantitative History Seminar: “Mapping the French gabelles: Fiscal fragmentation, tax evasion, and social conflict” (Joseph Enguehard)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 11 March 2026 (from 5 pm GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
London Population Seminar: Title TBA (Shuang Chen)
📍 London (Hybrid)
📆 17 March 2026 (13:00–14:00)
ℹ️ London Population Seminar
Campop Seminar: “Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain” (Toke Aidt)
📍 Cambridge (Hybrid)
📆 18 March 2026 (16:15 – 17:45 GMT)
ℹ️ University of Cambridge
Workshop: “One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)”
📍 London School of Economics
📆 21-22 May 2026
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ LSE
Population and Development Review Application for Editors
⏰ 16 March 2026
ℹ️ PopCouncil
GreatLeap Workshop: “Accuracy of Cause-of-Death Registration: Everyday Conditions, Crises, and Epidemics”
📍 London School of Economics
📆 19-20 March 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Workshop: “From Matrimonial Ads to Dating Apps: Unraveling the Partnering Market”
📍 Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona
📆 4-5 June 2026
⏰ 15 April 2026
ℹ️ ADEH
GreatLeap Workshop: ‘Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’
📍 University of the Balearic Islands
📆 2-3 July 2026
ℹ️ GreatLeap
Vacancies
Postdoctoral Researcher on the Social History of Capitalism
📍 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
⏰ 31 January 2026
ℹ️ VUB
Faculty Position in Computational Sociology
📍 Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), Paris
⏰ 31 January 2026
ℹ️ CREST
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Historical Demography
📍 University of Bradford
⏰ 2 February 2026
ℹ️ UoB
Two Senior Researchers in History in the project “All the names: Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past”
📍 NTNU (Trondheim)
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ Jobbnorge
PhD position in History in the project “All the names: Culture, naming practices and individual outcomes in the past”
📍 NTNU (Trondheim)
⏰ 15 March 2026
ℹ️ Jobbnorge
Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution
📍 University of Helsinki
⏰ 28 February 2026
ℹ️ UoH
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project “How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)”
📍 King’s College London
⏰ 1 February 2026
ℹ️ KCL
PhD position
📍 Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark
⏰ 16 March 2026, 23:59 CEST
ℹ️ CPop
Would you like to contribute?
The AYHD welcomes suggestions for collaboration or cross-promotion with researchers and institutions across the landscape of historical demography and its allied fields! Whether you are looking to promote your own research, suggest a conference social, or volunteer time on our Board, please get in touch!
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