Researchers

Primary Investigator: Dr Amy J. Lloyd




I am a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.  I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and did my undergraduate degree in History at the University of Toronto (2000-4).  I then completed my graduate degrees – an MPhil in Economic and Social History (2004-5) and a PhD in History (2005-9) – at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Martin Daunton.  My PhD dissertation (which I am currently converting into a monograph) examines popular perceptions of emigration in Britain between 1870 and 1914 by analysing the content contained in eleven magazines that were best sellers among the working and middle classes.  This current project on English emigration to Canada grew out of my dissertation, as I became fascinated with the emigration mania which occurred in Britain during the early-twentieth century (which primarily involved emigration to Canada). 

For more information on my research, teaching and publications, please visit my page on the University of Edinburgh's website. 

My contact details can also be found here

Research Assistants

  

Two research assistants were hired in October 2012: Lucy Newby and Malin Sandell.  They are currently MSc students in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.  They have primarily been transcribing the samples of the 1911 Canadian census for the case studies.