Robert Woods was John Rankin Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool. He was the author of The Demography of Victorian England and Wales (2000) and Children Remembered: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past (2006). He edited the journal Population Studies and was a Fellow of the British Academy.
<br> Deserves to be known as the latest definitive word on the subject for medical historians, demographers, epidemiologists, and economic historians. -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History<p><br>