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Professor Richard Smith
Emeritus Professor of Historical Geography and Demography and Fellow of Downing College, University of Cambridge. Professor Smith is a Historical Demographer and Historical Population Geographer, working on the history of marriage patterns in medieval and early modern Europe, the long-term development of mortality patterns in England and Europe and the impact of welfare practices on demographic and economic behaviour.