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Dr. Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Involved in hub(s)
Occupational Structure and Population
Contact details
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Sir William Hardy Building
Department of Geography
Downing Place
Cambridge
CB2 3EN
England
+44 1223 333190
leigh.shaw-taylor@geog.cam.ac.uk
http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/shaw-taylor/
http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/shaw-taylor/#publications
Short biography
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lead hub 9) is lecturer in eighteenth and nineteenth century British economic and social history at the University of Cambridge. He has managed the Occupational Structure of Britain 1379-1911 project for the last four years. So far the project has received £1.3m of funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The first project (2003-2006) was recently judged ‘outstanding’ by the ESRC. Further funding applications for around £1m are in progress at present. Dr. Shaw-Taylor has already secured supplementary funding for WP 9 from the Newton Trust (UCAM) of £100,266, conditional on the success of the present FP7 application. If this FP7 application is successful he will make a further application to the ESRC to complete the digitisation of the UK census material at national, county and other levels for the period 1921-2001 so that the large-scale datasets on the UK will cover the period from 1700-2001. The datasets produced by the project currently cover the period 1750 to 1911 and will be made available to the proposed research infrastructure. This includes both national, county and municipal level occupational and population datasets. The success of the project has attracted international attention and has already led to some preliminary comparative work.
