Dr Roger Schofield

Emeritus Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and Fellow of Clare College

Biography

In 1956-60 I read history at Cambridge. In 1962 I took a Ph.D in Constitutional History supervised by Prof. Sir Geoffrey Elton.

Formerly Director of Cambridge Group for History of Population and Social Structure.

Career:

1967 to 1997 Research Assistant then Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Qualifications

BA PhD and Litt.D in History

Research

I began my training as a constitutional historian of England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, preparing a doctoral dissertation on the levying of direct taxation under the early Tudors, (1485-1547). From 1974 to 1994 I was Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. This meant that the book on taxation in early Tudor England had to wait for my responsibilities in the field of historical demography to be completed. The research based on the 1963 thesis was finally published, as Taxation under the early Tudors, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, (2004). I have also published certain articles in the field of historical demography, namely '"Monday's child is fair of face": favoured days for baptism, marriage and burial in pre-industrial England', Continuity and Change, 20 (1), 2005, 93-109.

Publications

Selected publications:

Roger Schofield, "Monday's child is fair of face": favoured days for baptism, marriage and burial in pre-industrial England, Continuity and Change, 2005
Taxation under the early Tudors, Roger Schofield, Oxford: Blackwell 2004.
The population history of England, 1541-1871: a reconstruction, E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.

External activities

Fellowship of the British Academy