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From the Archives: experiences of doing historical demography in Northern Ghana

From the Archives: experiences of doing historical demography in Northern Ghana

Edward Morgan is a PhD candidate (2016-present) with the Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on reconstructing long term demographic trends in West Africa and understanding how these trends interact with social and economic development. His particular focus is on modern Ghanaian history. African historical demography has received comparatively little attention with respect to the wider field of historical demography. In 1977, the Centre for African Studies at the University of…

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Research Methods in Historical Demography Summer School, Barcelona 4-8th Sept 2017

Research Methods in Historical Demography Summer School, Barcelona 4-8th Sept 2017

Dear colleagues,   The Association of Historical Demography of Spain and Portugal will hold a summer school in Historical Demography in Barcelona from 4th to 8th September 2017. The course aims at providing tools for the construction of Databases in both transversal and longitudinal designs, as well as teaching the main analytical techniques currently used.   The school will be taught by the best researchers in historical and contemporary research and will include presentations by Anna Cabré (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Elisabeth Engberg…

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