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Simon Szreter

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Simon Szreter is professor of history and public policy at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is a specialist in demographic and social history, the history of empirical social science, and the relationship between history and public policy issues.

Career

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In 2009, Szreter was awarded the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize by the American Public Health Association.[1][2]

With Keith Breckenridge, he edited Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, which was published by Oxford University Press and the British Academy in 2012 as part of the proceedings of the British Academy based on a workshop held in Cambridge in 2010.[3][4] In 2019, he was the joint winner of the IPPR's Economics Prize.[5]

He is the co-founder of History and Policy, an international network of historians.[6]

Selected publications

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  • Fertility, class and gender in Britain 1860-1940 (Cambridge 1996)
  • Changing family size in England and Wales 1891-1911: place, class and demography (co-authored, Cambridge 2001)
  • Categories and contexts. Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography (co-edited, Oxford 2004)
  • Health and Wealth: Studies in History and Policy (Rochester University Press 2005)
  • Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963. 2010.
  • Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History. Oxford University Press & The British Academy, 2012. (Edited with Keith Breckenridge) (Proceedings of the British Academy) ISBN 978-0197265314

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Simon Szreter — Faculty of History". Hist.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Professor Simon Szreter - StJohns". Joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  3. ^ Caplan, J. (28 August 2014). "Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, ed. Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter". The English Historical Review. 129 (540): 1254–1256. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceu202. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  4. ^ "A registration crisis? History and policy" (PDF). Britac.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  5. ^ "The IPPR Economics Prize: The winners". Institute for Public Policy Research. 10 July 2019.
  6. ^ Policy, History &. "History & Policy". Historyandpolicy.org. Retrieved 30 July 2018. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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