Course Handbook - Faculty of History - University of Cambridge

Dr L Shaw-Taylor
(History)
Professor RM Smith
(Geography & Downing)
Professor SR Szreter
(History & St John’s)
Professor R P Tombs
(History & St John’s
College)
Dr BC Wood (History &
Girton)
Modern Intellectual History (2004), 'Language and Empire,
c.1800' in Historical Research (2005), 'A Horrible Tragedy in
the French Atlantic' in Past and Present (2006).
English economic and social history 1500-1850, especially:
common rights, enclosure and proletarianisation; the standard
of living; agricultural productivity; occupational structure and
industrialisation. Author: ‘Labourers, cows, common rights
and parliamentary enclosure: the evidence of contemporary
comment c 1760-1810’, Past and Present (2001).
‘Parliamentary Enclosure and the Emergence of an English
Agricultural Proletariat’, Journal of Economic History (2001).
De Moore, M., Shaw-Taylor, L., Warde, P., The Management
of Common Land in North West Europe ca. 1500-1850 (2002).
Medieval and early modern population and economic history.
Author of (with Peter Laslett) Bastardy and its Comparative
History (1980), Land,Kinship and Life-cycle (1984), with L.
Bonfield and Keith Wrightson, The World We Have Gained
(1986), with Margaret Pelling, Life, Death and the Elderly:
Historical Perspectives (1991), with Zvi Razi, The Manor
Court and English Society (1996).
Demographic history, including the intellectual history of the
field and contemporary policy questions. Author of Fertility,
Class and Gender in Britain 1860-1940 (1996); Changing
Family Size in England and Wales 1891-1911: place, class
and demography (with E. Garrett, A. Reid and K. Schurer)
(2001); Health and Wealth: studies in history and policy
(2005); edited (with H. Sholamy, A. Dharmlingam),
Categories and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical
Studies in Critical Demography (2004); Sex Before the Sexual
Revolution. Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (with Kate
Fisher) (2010).
Modern French and European History, and Franco-British
relations. Author of France 1814-1914 (1996), The Paris
Commune 1871 (1999), co-author of That Sweet Enemy (2006)
and co-editor of Cross-Channel Currents:100 Years of the
Entente Cordiale (2004).
Colonial American social history.
Many other members of the Cambridge History Faculty may be available to supervise dissertations.
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