Simon Szreter is professor of history and

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at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, and a fellow of

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511. Th ...

. He is a specialist in demographic and social history, the history of empirical social science and the relationship between history and public policy issues.

Career

In 2009 Szreter was awarded the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize by the American Public Health Association. With

Keith Breckenridge Keith Breckenridge is a South African professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a specialist in the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, and the development of information ...

he edited ''Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History'' which was published by

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and the

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in 2012 as part of the proceedings of the British Academy based on a workshop held in Cambridge in 2010. In 2019 he was the joint winner of the IPPR's Economics Prize. He is the co-founder of

History and Policy History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

, an international network of historians.

Selected publications

* ''Fertility, class and gender in Britain 1860-1940 (Cambridge 1996) * ''Changing family size in England and Wales 1891-1911: place, class and demography'' (co-authored, Cambridge 2001) * ''Categories and contexts. Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography'' (co-edited, Oxford 2004) * ''Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy'' (Rochester University Press 2005) * ''Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963''. 2010. * ''Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History''.

& The British Academy, 2012. (Edited with Keith Breckenridge) (Proceedings of the British Academy)

References

External links

Professor Simon Szreter
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
History and Policy website
Living people Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub