Professor Richard Smith FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1991
- Subjects
- Geography, History, Sociology
Summary
My research and publications have focused on the history of marriage, principally in medieval Europe, peasant inheritance practices and customary law, welfare practices and their demographic correlates in medieval and early modern England and urban historical epidemiology. Much of this work has been undertaken while Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University and Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. I currently hold a Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (2014-2019) to undertake research on 'Migration, Mortality and Medicalization: investigating the long-run epidemiological consequences of urbanisation in England 1600-1939'.
Current post
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Historical Demography and Geography
2011 -
University of Cambridge Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
1994 -
University of Oxford Reader in History of Medicine and Director of Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine
1990 - 1994
University of Oxford University Lecturer in Population History
1983 - 1989
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mike Savage FBA
Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.
Professor Christopher Pinney FBA
Commercial print cultures of South Asia (especially chromolithography), visual culture of popular politics and religion; anthropological approaches to photography, history of photography in India; Hindu practice in rural central India
Professor Jonathan Bradshaw FBA
Social security policy; poverty and living standards; child well-being; and comparative social policy
