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Emily Chung
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PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
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Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social · 21d
Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246
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Thrilled to be holding my copy of @holsmith.bsky.social’s new book - run don’t walk to get yours too!
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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📣Out now on #firstview!

Emily Chung (@emvchung.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) (@camunicampop.bsky.social) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester'

#Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Manchester has long been a model for the class divisions characteristic of British Victorian cities, and this segregation has largely been attributed as a spatial phenomenon as informed by qualitative sources from the period. The digitization of historical source material, however, allows for quantitative assessments of residential differentiation. By analysing patterns of residential distribution using nineteenth-century, individual-level census data, it is revealed that early Victorian Manchester was characterized more by residential heterogeneity than segregation. In light of this finding, this article revisits the source base for early Victorian Manchester in order to reconcile the differences in the physical and social dimensions of segregation for a more accurate and holistic understanding of urban dynamics and the mechanisms of class formation. It explains this dissonance by exploring the city’s architectural, occupational, and cultural structures: while rich and poor lived cheek-by-jowl in the industrial city, temporal rhythms of employment, institutionalized cultures of class, and emerging modes of urban maintenance and discipline all produced practices which differentiated and isolated one class from another.
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇
cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 21d
The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows.

@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
Historian Emily Chung dressed in shades of brown, standing against the grey brick of a Victorian building.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
emvchung.bsky.social
Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Had such a blast in Leicester with the Urban History Group this week! So many great papers from Early Career and Senior researchers alike :)
Hoping to see everyone in Barcelona at #EAUH2026 and then back together for #UHG2027!
urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 5
Well that was good! Thank you so much to all the speakers and delegates for making our first joint conference with the Pre-Modern Towns Group so enlivening and stimulating. It's #EAUH2026 in Barcelona next year but watch this space for news of #UHG2027!
urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social · Sep 4
Setting up for #UHG2025

Thank you @royalhistsoc.org for helping us show we know the value of history @uniofleicester.bsky.social!
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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My first working paper is out! If you're at all interested in using I-CeM for spatial investigation, check out my method for residential georeferencing.
cwpeconhist.bsky.social Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History @cwpeconhist.bsky.social · May 6
❕New WP from Emily Chung❕
𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝟏𝟖𝟓𝟏-𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟏
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May 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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📣New blog post alert...📣
And it's number 30! We're halfway through our series of 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work & death since the middle ages.
We'd love to know what you think about the blogs. Let us know if you are enjoying them.
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/
#skystorians
January 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.
November 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM