Local Population Studies Society

The Local Population Studies Society (LPSS) is the United Kingdom's only charity solely devoted to the promotion of all aspects of historical demography in a local context. It publishes the internationally renowned journal Local Population Studies, and has an eclectic publications programme. LPSS organizes themed conferences on topics related to local populations in the past. Members of LPSS receive two copies of the journal and two newsletters each year, membership of the LPSS Book Club and advance notice of the LPSS conferences.

This website contains information about the Society and its outputs. The main feature of this site is the archive of back issues of the journal Local Population Studies. The issues covering publication from 1968 to 2007 are available free of charge on this site, though the Society welcomes orders for print copies of both those present on this site and those presently unavailable on this site.

CONFERENCES: The April 2012 conference, "Regional Development in Industrialising Britain, c.1670-1860", will be held in Welwyn Garden City on 21 April 2012. For details see the conference page.

NEWSLETTER NEWS! Committee members Gillian Chiverton and Mary Cook are temporary editors of the next Newsletter. They would warmly welcome any contributions. Please email contirbutions to lps@herts.ac.uk. We are on the look out for a new Newsletter editor. If you would like to edit future Newsletters, please write to us at the same email address.

Details of the Roger Schofield Local Population Studies Research Fund are now available on this site.

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