
Dr Joseph Day
BSc, MPhil, PhD
Current positions
Lecturer in Historical Geography and Economic History
School of Geographical Sciences
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Migration, Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Change, England and Wales 1851-1911
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/04/2020 to 01/10/2021
Migration, Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Change, England and Wales 1851-1911
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/04/2018 to 01/04/2021
Publications
Selected publications
25/05/2023Mapping the cultural divides of England and Wales
PLoS ONE
The accuracy and precision of birthplace reporting in the 1851–1911 censuses: Place as a component of identity in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Population, Space and Place
The Process of Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911
Comparative Population Studies
Migration to London and the development of the north–south divide, 1851–1911
Social History
Revisiting the Fertility Transition in England and Wales
Demography
Recent publications
01/01/2024People, places and a pandemic
Geography and A Geographer
Mapping the cultural divides of England and Wales
PLoS ONE
The accuracy and precision of birthplace reporting in the 1851–1911 censuses: Place as a component of identity in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Population, Space and Place
Revisiting the Fertility Transition in England and Wales
Demography
The Process of Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911
Comparative Population Studies