BSc (Manchester), MPhil and PhD (both Cantab)

我的研究方向是十八、十九世纪英国经济史，整体上属于英国工业革命这一领域。具体而言，我主要关注以下四个相互关联的方面：性别、家庭与劳动；童工与工业化；贫困、社会福利与新济贫法；以及交通运输、城市化与经济地理。

欢迎有志于从事经济史研究，尤其是研究方向与我兴趣相契合的同学与我联系。

I am an economic historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

My research interest, broadly speaking, lies in the area of the British Industrial Revolution. Within it, I focus particularly on four related areas:

gender, family and work

child labour and industrialisation

poverty, social welfare and the New Poor Law

transport, urbanization and economic geography

I welcome enquiries from prospective students wishing to undertake research in economic history, particularly in fields aligned with my research interests.

2022 -2026, Lecturer then Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Cardiff University

2019-2022, Lecturer (with tenure), Swansea University

2014-2019, Research Associate, University of Cambridge

北京大学历史学系 邮编：100871

xuesheng.you@pku.edu.cn

◎ 论文

·       You, X. and Tertzakian, A.,‘Child labour and industrialization: Evidence from factory records and the 1851 British census’, Economic History Review 79 (2026), pp. 163-188.

·       You, X., ‘Female relatives and domestic service in 19^th-century England and Wales: female kin servants revisited’, Economic History Review 77 (2024), pp. 444-471.

·       Bogart, D. and You, X. et al., ‘Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19^th century England and Wales’, Journal of Urban Economics, 128 (2022), pp. 1-23.

·       You, X., ‘Working with husband? “Occupation’s wife” and married women's employment in the censuses in England and Wales between 1851 and 1911’, Social Science History, 44 (2020), pp. 585-613.

·       You, X., ‘Women's labour force participation in nineteenth-century England and Wales: evidence from the 1881 census enumerators' books’, Economic History Review 73 (2019), pp.106-133.

◎ 数据库

·       Marti-Henneberg, J., Satchell, A. E. M., You, X., Shaw-Taylor, L., and Wrigley, E. A., 1851 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Stations (2018), UK Data Service, SN852994.

·       Henneberg, J., Satchell, A. E. M., You, X., Shaw-Taylor, L., Wrigley, E. A., and Cobb, M., 1861 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Stations (2018), UK Data Service, SN852995.

·       Henneberg, J., Satchell, A. E. M., You, X., Shaw-Taylor, L., Wrigley, E. A., and Cobb, M., 1881 England, Wales and Scotland Railway Stations (2018), UK Data Service, SN852996.

·       Satchell, A. E. M., Wrigley, E. A., Shaw-Taylor, L., You, X., and Henneberg, J., 1851 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines (2018), UK Data Service, SN852991.

·       Marti-Henneberg, J., Satchell, A. E. M., You, X., Shaw-Taylor, L., and Wrigley, E. A., 1861 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines (2018), UK Data Service, SN852992.

·       Marti-Henneberg, J., Satchell, A. E. M., You, X., Shaw-Taylor, L., and Wrigley, E. A., 1881 England, Wales and Scotland Rail Lines (2018), UK Data Service, SN852993.

Economic History Society Carnevali Research Grant, 2024

Textile History Society Pasold Research Grant, 2024

Gates Scholarship

PhD examiner for the London School of Economics, 2025.

Member of Cardiff University Senate, 2024-2026.

Member of the advisory board to the ESRC project ‘Integrated Census Microdata 1921’, 2023-2024.

Reviewer for Nature Communications, Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review, Feminist Economics, Historical Methods, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Historical Geography, Continuity and Change, and Explorations in Economic History.