Humphrey Southall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 358713 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Humphrey Southall |
| NOMBRES | Humphrey |
| APELLIDO | Southall |
| FIRMA | SOUTHALL H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4406-1425 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The rise and fall of class voting in Britain, 1885–2024
Understanding when and why social cleavages shape electoral behaviour is a central concern in the study of democratic politics. While many accounts emphasise the long-term social changes, others point to the role of party strategy. We contribute to this debate by analysing the political evolution of one of the central cleavages of the twentieth century—class—in one of the world’s longest-standing democracies—Britain. Analysing a unique new datase…
The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK
This article examines the social base of support for Reform UK. Did Nigel Farage's new party depend on the same types of ‘left behind’ voters who had previously backed UKIP? Do the results of the 2024 election suggest a hardening of the social divides that underpinned the rise of UKIP? Or has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti‐immigration movement broadened its social appeal, making these lines of conflict between different social groups less distinc…
Service sector employment in Great Britain 1841–2011
The most detailed published census data on occupations and industries from nine British censuses between 1841 and 2011 have been computerised, and original methods developed both to re-district them from constantly changing historical districts to the 380 Local Authority Districts reported on by the 2011 census and to re-classify them to the 20 ‘Sections’ of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification. This large dataset is then used to reveal ne…
Locating Past Places in Britain
The GB1900 project used crowd-sourcing to transcribe all text from the second edition County Series six inch to one mile maps of Great Britain, published between 1888 and 1914, a total of c. 2.55m. geo-located text strings. These locate almost every farm and about half of all street names. The paper describes the final datasets, and how they were created. It then presents a detailed comparison with five other freely-available gazetteers of Britai…
Citizen science through old maps
The GB1900 project transcribed almost all text on 1:10,650 mapping covering Great Britain, published circa 1900: 2.6 million geo-referenced text strings, so possibly the largest specifically historical gazetteer. Nearly 1200 volunteers made 5.5 million transcriptions, including “confirmations.” This paper describes the project’s interaction with online volunteers and then presents their experience, as recorded through the online system itself, si…
Working with the public in historical data creation
Historians engage with the nonacademic public in diverse ways, from blogging their research, to public-friendly periodicals, to the art and practice of public historians. Within this special issue we present another way to engage with the broader public, through the shared creation of historical data. The four papers in this special issue arise from a session on historical crowdsourcing at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Ass…
Placing Names
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 3
This article describes the integration of old maps, descriptive gazetteers, and a large library of travel writing into the Great Britain Historical GIS, presenting a range of approaches to geo-referencing diverse historical sources. While previous parts focused on legally defined administrative areas and statistical reporting units, these qualitative sources concern a less formal geography of “places.” The article links these to administrative un…
How is post-industrial decline associated with the geography of physical activity? Evidence from the Health Survey for England
OP17 Area Deprivation Across the Life Course and Cognitive Capability in Mid-Life
Background Recent work has shown that area conditions at single points in time have been found to be associated with cognitive capability outcomes. However, a life course perspective is required to take into account life time processes of cognitive development, changes in residence and secular trends of areas. Methods Data from the 1946 British Birth Cohort were used to estimate associations of area deprivation (indicated by % of employed people …
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 2
Mainstream geographical information systems techniques and packaged geographical information systems software are often inappropriate in historical contexts because they use geographical coordinates as a framework around which all other information is organized as “attribute data,” whereas in history locations are often the least certain part of our knowledge. A new and general architecture for documenting administrative units and organizing hist…
Challenges in examining area effects across the life course on physical capability in mid-life
A major limitation of past work linking area socioeconomic conditions to health in mid-life has been the reliance on single point in time measurement of area. Using the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, this study for the first time linked place of residence at three major life periods of childhood (1950), young adulthood (1972), and mid-life (1999) to area-socioeconomic data from the nearest census years. Using objective measures of…
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 1
The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GIS) has been rebuilt around a single central table holding all statistics in one column, currently containing 14,541,491 data values. This architecture enables extremely flexible data handling, but requires that the context of each data value be captured entirely as metadata. Statistical reporting areas are defined via an ontology of administrative units, in which hierarchical relatio…
P1-42 Associations of area deprivation over the lifecourse and physical capability in mid-life
Background Recent work has shown that factors across the whole of life influence physical capability in later life. Therefore, when investigating area socioeconomic effects on physical capability, area exposures should be assessed across the lifecourse to take account changes in residence and secular trends of an area. Methods Using data from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, we examined the relationship between area low social c…
Small area variations in infant mortality in England and Wales in the inter-war period and their link with socio-economic factors
Area effects on health variation over the life-course
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardized geographical units
This paper analyses geographical trends in relative poverty in England and Wales over the last century by comparing key quantitative indicators from key dates. The comparison is made possible by interpolating all the datasets onto a single standardized geography. Results suggest rising inequality in spite of the decline in absolute poverty
An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750–1990
Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political Travellers and the Construction of a National Politics, 1839-1880
Humphrey Southall, Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political Travellers and the Construction of a National Politics, 1839-1880, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1996), pp. 177-193
A good time to wed
The analysis of the statistics of marriage drawn from the Registrar General's annual reports forms part of research on the origins of the depressed areas of Britain financed by the Leverhulme Trust. The analysis of the Bolton parish register was supported by a Small Personal Research Grant from the British Academy. Earlier versions of this article were presented to the Social Science History Association, the Cambridge Group for the History of Pop…
Ni l'État, ni le Marché. Les premières prestations sociales en Grande-Bretagne
Southall Humphrey, Choaler Christine. Ni l'État, ni le Marché. Les premières prestations sociales en Grande-Bretagne. In: Genèses, 18, 1995. Protections sociales, sous la direction de Florence Weber. pp. 6-29
Nineteenth-Century Trade Union Records
This guide is in two distinct halves. The first is an introductory essay, describing first the various levels at which trade unions recorded and preserved information and then discussing the different types of information and their possible uses. This essay was written by Humphrey Southall, with assistance from David Gilbert. The second part, the select guide, describes the surviving central records and printed publications and circulars of twent…
Morbidity and mortality among early nineteenth century engineering workers
The Steam Engine Makers' Society (SEM), and early national engineering trade union, recorded each payment of its sickness benefit to individual members, and also listed all members each year. Nominal linkage techniques have been used to reconstruct individual histories of absence from work due to sickness from these data, link the resultant histories to records of members' funerals, and then in some cases further link them to a man's death certif…
The tramping artisan revisits
As every student of political economy is aware, there is a certain percentage of the industrial life of the nation which must be migratory in character by force of circumstances. . . . in the sphere of labour the chances of commercial life and the caprices of fashion keep a large army of working men in a state of motion, sometimes over short distances, sometimes from the southern counties to the western or the eastern to the northern. Few men esc…
Area effects on health variation over the life-course
Towards a Geography of Unionization
Humphrey Southall, Towards a Geography of Unionization: The Spatial Organization and Distribution of Early British Trade Unions, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1988), pp. 466-483
The 2024 General Election and the Rise of Reform UK
This article examines the social base of support for Reform UK. Did Nigel Farage's new party depend on the same types of ‘left behind’ voters who had previously backed UKIP? Do the results of the 2024 election suggest a hardening of the social divides that underpinned the rise of UKIP? Or has Britain's Eurosceptic and anti‐immigration movement broadened its social appeal, making these lines of conflict between different social groups less distinc…
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 2
Mainstream geographical information systems techniques and packaged geographical information systems software are often inappropriate in historical contexts because they use geographical coordinates as a framework around which all other information is organized as “attribute data,” whereas in history locations are often the least certain part of our knowledge. A new and general architecture for documenting administrative units and organizing hist…
The tramping artisan revisits
As every student of political economy is aware, there is a certain percentage of the industrial life of the nation which must be migratory in character by force of circumstances. . . . in the sphere of labour the chances of commercial life and the caprices of fashion keep a large army of working men in a state of motion, sometimes over short distances, sometimes from the southern counties to the western or the eastern to the northern. Few men esc…
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 3
This article describes the integration of old maps, descriptive gazetteers, and a large library of travel writing into the Great Britain Historical GIS, presenting a range of approaches to geo-referencing diverse historical sources. While previous parts focused on legally defined administrative areas and statistical reporting units, these qualitative sources concern a less formal geography of “places.” The article links these to administrative un…
How is post-industrial decline associated with the geography of physical activity? Evidence from the Health Survey for England
Challenges in examining area effects across the life course on physical capability in mid-life
A major limitation of past work linking area socioeconomic conditions to health in mid-life has been the reliance on single point in time measurement of area. Using the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, this study for the first time linked place of residence at three major life periods of childhood (1950), young adulthood (1972), and mid-life (1999) to area-socioeconomic data from the nearest census years. Using objective measures of…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political Travellers and the Construction of a National Politics, 1839-1880
Humphrey Southall, Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political Travellers and the Construction of a National Politics, 1839-1880, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1996), pp. 177-193
Family time and industrial time
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 1
The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GIS) has been rebuilt around a single central table holding all statistics in one column, currently containing 14,541,491 data values. This architecture enables extremely flexible data handling, but requires that the context of each data value be captured entirely as metadata. Statistical reporting areas are defined via an ontology of administrative units, in which hierarchical relatio…
Regional unemployment patterns among skilled engineers in Britain, 1851–1914
A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardized geographical units
This paper analyses geographical trends in relative poverty in England and Wales over the last century by comparing key quantitative indicators from key dates. The comparison is made possible by interpolating all the datasets onto a single standardized geography. Results suggest rising inequality in spite of the decline in absolute poverty
A good time to wed
The analysis of the statistics of marriage drawn from the Registrar General's annual reports forms part of research on the origins of the depressed areas of Britain financed by the Leverhulme Trust. The analysis of the Bolton parish register was supported by a Small Personal Research Grant from the British Academy. Earlier versions of this article were presented to the Social Science History Association, the Cambridge Group for the History of Pop…
Morbidity and mortality among early nineteenth century engineering workers
The Steam Engine Makers' Society (SEM), and early national engineering trade union, recorded each payment of its sickness benefit to individual members, and also listed all members each year. Nominal linkage techniques have been used to reconstruct individual histories of absence from work due to sickness from these data, link the resultant histories to records of members' funerals, and then in some cases further link them to a man's death certif…
British artisan unions in the New World
Small area variations in infant mortality in England and Wales in the inter-war period and their link with socio-economic factors
The Origins of the Depressed Areas
Humphrey R. Southall, The Origins of the Depressed Areas: Unemployment, Growth, and Regional Economic Structure in Britain before 1914, The Economic History Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 236-258
The dynamics of Victorian business
Family time and industrial time
Regional unemployment patterns among skilled engineers in Britain, 1851–1914
Towards a Geography of Unionization
Humphrey Southall, Towards a Geography of Unionization: The Spatial Organization and Distribution of Early British Trade Unions, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1988), pp. 466-483
The Origins of the Depressed Areas
Humphrey R. Southall, The Origins of the Depressed Areas: Unemployment, Growth, and Regional Economic Structure in Britain before 1914, The Economic History Review, Vol. 41, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 236-258
The origins of the depressed areas
British artisan unions in the New World
Communication
A database of nineteenth-century British labour markets
Morbidity and mortality among early nineteenth century engineering workers
The Steam Engine Makers' Society (SEM), and early national engineering trade union, recorded each payment of its sickness benefit to individual members, and also listed all members each year. Nominal linkage techniques have been used to reconstruct individual histories of absence from work due to sickness from these data, link the resultant histories to records of members' funerals, and then in some cases further link them to a man's death certif…
The tramping artisan revisits
As every student of political economy is aware, there is a certain percentage of the industrial life of the nation which must be migratory in character by force of circumstances. . . . in the sphere of labour the chances of commercial life and the caprices of fashion keep a large army of working men in a state of motion, sometimes over short distances, sometimes from the southern counties to the western or the eastern to the northern. Few men esc…
Ni l'État, ni le Marché. Les premières prestations sociales en Grande-Bretagne
Southall Humphrey, Choaler Christine. Ni l'État, ni le Marché. Les premières prestations sociales en Grande-Bretagne. In: Genèses, 18, 1995. Protections sociales, sous la direction de Florence Weber. pp. 6-29
Nineteenth-Century Trade Union Records
This guide is in two distinct halves. The first is an introductory essay, describing first the various levels at which trade unions recorded and preserved information and then discussing the different types of information and their possible uses. This essay was written by Humphrey Southall, with assistance from David Gilbert. The second part, the select guide, describes the surviving central records and printed publications and circulars of twent…
An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750–1990
Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political Travellers and the Construction of a National Politics, 1839-1880
Humphrey Southall, Agitate! Agitate! Organize! Political Travellers and the Construction of a National Politics, 1839-1880, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1996), pp. 177-193
A good time to wed
The analysis of the statistics of marriage drawn from the Registrar General's annual reports forms part of research on the origins of the depressed areas of Britain financed by the Leverhulme Trust. The analysis of the Bolton parish register was supported by a Small Personal Research Grant from the British Academy. Earlier versions of this article were presented to the Social Science History Association, the Cambridge Group for the History of Pop…
Quantifying and explaining changes in geographical inequality of infant mortality in England and Wales since the 1890s
This paper considers the changing spatial pattern of infant mortality in England and Wales over the last century for a constant area definition. The analysis proceeds at the level of registration districts as defined in the 1890s, generated using the British Isles Historical Geographical Information System. Infant mortality at this spatial definition is followed over four points in time, the most recent being the early 1990s. Using a variety of i…
A century of inequality in England and Wales using standardized geographical units
This paper analyses geographical trends in relative poverty in England and Wales over the last century by comparing key quantitative indicators from key dates. The comparison is made possible by interpolating all the datasets onto a single standardized geography. Results suggest rising inequality in spite of the decline in absolute poverty
Small area variations in infant mortality in England and Wales in the inter-war period and their link with socio-economic factors
Area effects on health variation over the life-course
Challenges in examining area effects across the life course on physical capability in mid-life
A major limitation of past work linking area socioeconomic conditions to health in mid-life has been the reliance on single point in time measurement of area. Using the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, this study for the first time linked place of residence at three major life periods of childhood (1950), young adulthood (1972), and mid-life (1999) to area-socioeconomic data from the nearest census years. Using objective measures of…
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 1
The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GIS) has been rebuilt around a single central table holding all statistics in one column, currently containing 14,541,491 data values. This architecture enables extremely flexible data handling, but requires that the context of each data value be captured entirely as metadata. Statistical reporting areas are defined via an ontology of administrative units, in which hierarchical relatio…
P1-42 Associations of area deprivation over the lifecourse and physical capability in mid-life
Background Recent work has shown that factors across the whole of life influence physical capability in later life. Therefore, when investigating area socioeconomic effects on physical capability, area exposures should be assessed across the lifecourse to take account changes in residence and secular trends of an area. Methods Using data from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, we examined the relationship between area low social c…
Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 2
Mainstream geographical information systems techniques and packaged geographical information systems software are often inappropriate in historical contexts because they use geographical coordinates as a framework around which all other information is organized as “attribute data,” whereas in history locations are often the least certain part of our knowledge. A new and general architecture for documenting administrative units and organizing hist…
OP17 Area Deprivation Across the Life Course and Cognitive Capability in Mid-Life
Background Recent work has shown that area conditions at single points in time have been found to be associated with cognitive capability outcomes. However, a life course perspective is required to take into account life time processes of cognitive development, changes in residence and secular trends of areas. Methods Data from the 1946 British Birth Cohort were used to estimate associations of area deprivation (indicated by % of employed people …
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