Local Population Studies 115
The complete issue of Local Population Studies 115 (autumn 2025) is now available for reading and downloading from here. Individual contributions can be downloaded from the same page.
Closure of Local Population Studies Society
Local Population Studies Society will close in September 2026. Subscribers to the journal Local Population Studies will receive the journal dated 2025 in the form of two issues published at the beginning of 2026. These will be issues 114 and 115. Issue 114 is already available electronically (see below). The journal is no longer taking submissions.
As the Committee works through the issues, practical, financial and legal, please continue to correspond with the secretary, rowena.burgess@uea.ac.uk.
We will take no further monetary subscriptions from October 2025 but, if you are a member of LPSS, please ensure you keep your contact details updated so that we can contact you.
The LPSS Committee would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of the journal and Society.
Local Population Studies 114
The complete issue of Local Population Studies 114 (spring 2025) is now available for reading and downloading from here. Individual contributions can be downloaded from the same page.
British Association for Local History
The Local Population Studies Society (LPSS) is a member of the British Association for Local History (BALH). This entitles all LPSS members to discounted entry to BALH online lectures, webinars and other activities, discounts on BALH local history books, and discounts and access to local history conferences and events. You will need to use the code F-29230F to access these discounts.
LPSS members cannot directly access the most recent editions of BALH’s journal, The Local Historian. However, a .pdf copy can be supplied on request by LPSS (contact treasurer@localpopulationstudies.org.uk).
The Other Windsor
The photograph below was taken by Chris Galley. Chris comments: ‘[i]t is from Abney cemetery in Stoke Newington which was one of the major nineteenth-century London cemeteries. As you can see the person is called Thomas Other Windsor and I’d not come across the name Other before. I wondered if … anyone else had come across this name?’
Have any members come across other unusual names in their research? By ‘other unusual names’ we mean unusual names other than ‘Other’.
CAMPOP Blogs
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) turned 60 in 2024. Since its founding in 1964, members of the Group have made a spectacular series of discipline-transforming contributions to social science history. These include reconstructing the population history of England over the last 500 years; delineating occupational change in the English economy over the same period; and reconfiguring our understanding of historical household structures, welfare systems, transport, and energy use.
Every week from 11 July 2024 to July 2025 CAMPOP posted a blog. These blogs form a series of 60 short pieces exploring one of the 60 things everyone should know about family, marriage, work and death in past centuries. To read the blogs, go to https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/07/10/launching-11-july/.