Over the previous year, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop) has been publishing a series of blog articles to mark the 60th anniversary of its foundation in 1964. The interdisciplinary Group has been at the forefront of the study of the historical demography of Britain and has nurtured the careers of generations of researchers. Its 60^th anniversary blog site entitled Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn’t know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages brings together articles which challenge some of the stereotypes about previous eras which underly contemporary policy debates. It includes, for example, an article by one of the founders of History & Policy, Professor Simon Szreter, on Sexuality in marriage during and after the fertility decline, which argues that the supposedly ‘repressed’ Victorians experienced a revolution in sexual behaviour as significant as that of the 1960s and ‘70s. And in the most recent article to be published, Is the nuclear family broken? Professor Alice Reid argues that many of those who posit such a breakdown make the mistake of presenting the 1950s and ‘60s as typifying the patterns of family behaviour in Britain up to that point. Together, the collection of articles illustrates the rich legacy of Campop’s work and the urgent relevance of history to the policy process.