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Historical Economic Demography Group

The LSE Historical Economic Demography (HED) Group is an interdisciplinary network of researchers at LSE that explores changes in population, health, migration, living standards, human capital and social mobility over time. Group members work on a very wide range of topics covering the medieval period to the present and all continents.

About the Historic Economic Demography Group

Our people and research

About Us

Our aims and objectives
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People

Meet our group members
Italian family (mother and children) in the baggage room, Ellis Island, 1905

Research

Featured Research

The Irish in London: 200 years as an economic underclass
19th century engraving showing a crowd of families on a dockside waiting to embark on a passage to America

Latest Research

Recent articles and working papers
Vacunese contra la viruela

Data

Helping answer important questions about the past
Queen Victoria's censures entry 1851

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Pop@LSE

The population studies research group at LSE