Nicholas Fitzhenry

Nicholas Fitzhenry is a historian of health, inequality, and empire. He received his PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics (LSE), where his doctoral research examined racial disparities in mortality and healthcare provision in 20th-century South Africa. He is currently the Economic History Society–IHR Tawney Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP) in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Nicholas has taught courses on global economic history, Middle Eastern economic history, and historical inequality at the LSE, receiving recognition for teaching excellence. At King’s, his research will focus on the imperial geography of healthcare, reconstructing and analysing a comprehensive dataset of medical professionals across Britain and its empire between 1850 and 1960. This project investigates how networks of physicians, midwives, and nurses shaped the global distribution of medical expertise and health outcomes, drawing on newly digitised registers, archival sources, and digital humanities methods.