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Black and white photograph of a family lined up against a wall, taken from a report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.

Cambridge experts bust myths about family, sex, marriage and work in English history

11 Jul 2024

On World Population Day, University of Cambridge researchers bust some of the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages, challenging...

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Early childhood mortality rates in 1851 (left) and 1911 (right). The highest rates are in red and the lowest in blue.

Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child mortality during Victorian era

15 May 2018

A new interactive online atlas, which illustrates when, where and possibly how fertility rates began to fall in England and Wales during the...

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Stourbridge Common

Stirbitch: mapping the unmappable

16 Jan 2015

Dr Michael Hrebeniak describes himself as inveterately curious about people and places. His fascination for a messy patch of Cambridge, best known...

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