Background
Roger Snowden was born on August 26, 1937 in England, United Kingdom. He was the son of Ronald Snowden and Muriel Grace (Braime) Schofield.
Clare College, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Roger studied at Clare College, Cambridge and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1963.
Roger Schofield
Uppsala University, Sweden
Vintage photo of Carlo Capolla, Sune Akerman, Egil Johansson, Roger Schofield, Uppsala University, research conference.
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Wrigley and Schofield consider the debate engendered by their Population History, the impact of which has been felt far beyond the traditional disciplinary confines of historical demography.
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1981
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The purpose of the book is to marry mathematical rigour with sociological and social awareness to improve both the theory and its application.
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1986
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Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a team of distinguished economic, social, and demographic historians analyze why. The contributors combine detailed local studies of individual communities, broader analyses of the impact of hunger and disease, and methodological discussions that explore the effect of crisis mortality on early modern societies. The essays examine the complex interrelationships among past demographic, social, and economic structures, and demonstrate that the impact of hunger and disease can provide a unique vehicle for an exploration of early modern society.
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1989
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English Population History from Family Reconstitution is the second part of the single most important demographic enquiry of the past generation. This study proves that family reconstitution has been particularly successful in obtaining accurate information about the demography of past populations. The authors prove that the results obtained are representative of the demographic situation of the country at large.
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1997
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Based on original research, this book marks an important advance in our understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the English crown but also of the broader political culture of early Tudor England.
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2008
Roger Snowden was born on August 26, 1937 in England, United Kingdom. He was the son of Ronald Snowden and Muriel Grace (Braime) Schofield.
Roger studied at Clare College, Cambridge and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1963.
In 1969 Roger Schofield began to work as a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. From 1991 till 1997 he was an Honorary Reader in Historical Demography at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. During 1994-97 he was a Senior research associate at Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Economic and Social Research Council. Later, he became a director there.
In 1984 Roger became a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar in the Social Sciences at CIT and from 1992 - a visiting professor of Humanities and Social Sciences.
During 1970-75 he was a member of computing committee at SSRC, and statistics committee during 1974-78. For two years he wasa member of software provision committee at UK Computer Board, served at population investigation committee from 1976 and was a treasurer during 1987-97.
The Population History of England, written with Tony Wrigley, was Schofield’s first book to manipulate this data, collected and processed by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Schofield’s statistical analyses helped overturn one of the Malthusian models of population, which suggested that population inevitably outruns food resources, and thus is kept in check primarily through starvation and epidemics. His group found that, in fact, the English birth rate and death rates were much more moderate, and that deferment of marriage was a much greater check on population growth in the period before the Industrial Revolution than had previously been thought. Schofield and Wrigley showed that the population rise that accompanied the Industrial Age was linked more closely to fertility than to mortality, because in that period people married earlier and produced more children.
Schofield’s next book to receive widespread critical attention was The Decline of Mortality in Europe, which he co-edited with David Reher and Alain Bideau. Schofield and his colleagues provide introductory essays on the current state of population studies as demonstrated within the essays collected in the book and in their own work.
In 1998, Schofield’s English Population History from Family Reconstitution, 1580-1837 was published. Its authors had held forth the promise of this book in their introduction to their 1981 The Population History of England, explains Porter, “to be based on even more sophisticated demographic techniques ... known as ‘family reconstitution’ ... (which) aims to exploit to the full the fact that parish registers record baptisms, marriages and burials... In n other words, one could move from mere aggregates to a reconstruction of the demographically significant moments in the lives of actual people.” Ray Porter admitted that the book“ gives us the best body of data we are ever likely to see.”
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2008(Wrigley and Schofield consider the debate engendered by t...)
1981(Although Western societies cannot escape from images of f...)
1989(English Population History from Family Reconstitution is ...)
1997(The purpose of the book is to marry mathematical rigour w...)
1986Roger Schofield was a member of British Academy, Royal Statistical Society, Royal Historical Society, British Society for Population Studies.
On September 3, 1961 Roger Schofield married Elizabeth Mary Cunliffe, they divorced in 1999. They have a child, Melanie.