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Department of Geography

 

Max Satchell BA MA D Phil

Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Historical geographer with research interests in using GIS to explore diverse range of historical data including transport geography c.1360-1921 and various aspects of disease in the past.

Career

  • 2005- Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
  • 2002-2005 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Qualifications

  • 1998 D Phil (History), Oxford
  • 1994 MA (Archaeology), Sheffield
  • 1983 BA Hons (History), Otago

Research

I work (and have worked) on an eclectic range of projects mostly for fellow members of CAMPOP.

This year so far this has included editing a GIS for mapping data from the 1921 census, producing content for an online game for school children, and producing the first ever GIS of part of Griffith’s Valuation – Ireland’s first, full-scale valuation of property (1847-1864).

Publications

(Last five years only.)

  • 2022 D. Bogart, You, X., Alvarez-Palau, E.J., Satchell, M., Shaw-Taylor, L., ‘Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales’, Journal of Urban Economics,128 [paper]
  • 2021 G. Leon-Ablan, Aidt, T., Satchell, M., ‘The Social Dynamics of Collective Action: Evidence from the Diffusion of the Swing Riots, 1830-31’, Journal of Politics, 84 (1), 209-225 [paper]
  • 2020 M. Daly, Obschonka, M, Stuetzer, M., Sutin, A.R., Shaw-Taylor, L., Satchell, M., Robinson, E., ‘Neuroticism mediates the relationship between industrial history and modern-day regional obesity levels’, Journal of Personality, 89 (2), 276-287 [paper]
  • 2019 P. Montebruno, Bennett, R.J., Van Lieshout, C., Smith, H., Satchell, M., ‘Shifts in Agrarian Entrepreneurship in mid-Victorian England and Wales’, Agricultural History Review, 67 (1), 71-108 [paper]
  • 2019 D. Bogart, Lefors, M., Satchell, M., ‘Canal carriers and creative destruction in English transport’, Explorations in Economic History, 71: 1-24 [paper]
  • 2018 R. Davenport, Satchell, M., and Shaw-Taylor, L., ‘The geography of smallpox in England before vaccination: a conundrum resolved’, Social Science and Medicine, 206: 75-85 [paper]
  • 2018 R. Davenport, Satchell, M., and Shaw-Taylor, L.,Cholera as a ‘sanitary test’ of British cities, 1831–1866’, History of the Family (Special Issue on Water and Sanitation), 24 (2), 404-438 [paper]
  • 2018 R.M. Smith and Satchell, M.,Malthus, Poverty and Population Change in Suffolk 1780–1834’. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, 44 (2), 112-134 [paper]
  • 2018 M. Obschonka, Stuetzer, M., Rentfrow, P.J., Shaw-Taylor, L., Satchell, M., Silbereisen, R.K., Potter, J., Gosling, S.D., ‘In the Shadow of Coal: How Large-Scale Industries Contributed to Present-Day Regional Differences in Personality and Well-Being’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115 (5), 903-927 [paper]

Publicly-available GIS datasets in the UK Data Service

Administrative geography

  • 1831 England and Wales Ancient Counties (SN-852939)
  • 1831England and Wales Census Hundreds and Wapentakes (SN-852938)
  • 1851 England and Wales Ancient Counties (SN-852942)
  • 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS (SN-852943)
  • 1851 England and Wales Census Registration Counties (SN-852949)
  • 1851 England and Wales Census Registration Districts (SN-852948)
  • 1851 England and Wales Census Registration Sub-Districts (SN-852945)

Transport geography

  • 1820 England and Wales Navigable Waterways (SN-852997)
  • 1851 England and Wales Navigable Waterways (SN-852998)
  • 1861 England and Wales Navigable Waterways (SN-852999)
  • 1881 England and Wales Navigable Waterways (SN-853000)
  • 1851 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Lines (SN-852991)
  • 1861 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Lines (SN-852992)
  • 1881 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Lines (SN-852993)
  • 1851 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Stations (SN-852994)
  • 1861 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Stations (SN-852995)
  • 1881 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Stations (SN-852996)
  • Historic ports and coastal sailing routes in England and Wales, 1540-1914 (SN-853711)