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2/ We welcome papers from across the social sciences examining historical environmental, epidemiological, economic, political and household-level shocks. Think epidemics, droughts, floods, war, displacement, income loss, bereavement and more.

3/ We are particularly interested in how shocks affected mortality, health, fertility, migration, living standards, education, labour markets and social mobility, historical economic demography writ large.

4/ In addition, we are keen to understand how inequalities by class, race and gender shaped vulnerability to shocks and recovery afterwards.