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Alexander Wakelam is an economic social historian specializing in Britain during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. His research broadly consists of the ground-level development of modern society, particularly exploring the economic behavior of communities influenced by the socio-economic structure and cultural landscape of society. Wakelam completed his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge in 2018 and has worked in various short-term postdoctoral roles at universities before returning to Cambridge. He is currently working in the Department of Geography and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge, where he is a member of the interdisciplinary Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. His primary research interest is in the history of Debtors' Prisons, investigating their economic significance in the English economy of the 1860s, as well as a study on the business activities of women integrating with Jews in commercial society. Alongside his work on fertility rates, he is conducting a study on the impact of World War I on birth rates and the creation of a generation of orphans due to the loss of fathers. Additionally, he has been involved in constructing a long-running enhanced digital edition of UK census returns, known as I-CeM, which allows researchers to analyze time changes in population, work, and education.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, England
Conducting research on the history of Debtors’ Prisons and other socio-economic historical studies.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.