- https://doi.org/10.5871/mem/022.155
Schofield, Roger, 1937-2019
- Jan 1, 2025
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy
- Richard Smith
Both monographs were based on laboratory-like and interdisciplinary teamwork at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, undertaken when he was a research officer from 1966 and Director from 1974 to 1994.The two monographs were distinctive in crossing several branches of the social sciences.Roger Schofield played an important role in the international development of historical demography through his work on behalf of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.In England he was of central importance in the foundation of the Local Population Studies Society, and for 30 years fostered the research of local amateurs using registers of the Anglican church to reconstruct parochial population history.During his early career, he had been a postgraduate student of Geoffrey Elton at Clare College when he did important research on early Tudor taxation that has remained seminal.In 1965 he was appointed to a post in Tudor history at Queen Mary College (London) but resigned in the same year just before his lecturing was due to begin.
