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Arne Westad (Yale) .
Wednesday 01 April 2026, 17:00-18:00
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Contact: Dr Pedro Ramos Pinto
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Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar
The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain
Financial History Seminar
Mortgages, maturity mismatching and the transformation of British banking: 1971-92
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective
Quantitative History Seminar
Mapping the French gabelles: Fiscal fragmentation, tax evasion, and social conflict
Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar
By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire
β οΈ Via Zoom
History and Economics Seminar
A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860sβ1910s)
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past.
Financial History Seminar
The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The business of grain milling in England, c.1540-1800
History and Economics Seminar
Maroon ecologies and the SΓ£o TomΓ© plantation world: histories of black insurgency
Quantitative History Seminar
State and Industrialization in Turkey since 1930
Financial History Seminar
Bonds without borders: the Eurobond market
Quantitative History Seminar
Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence
History and Economics Seminar
Little Corners of Freedom, Green Dictatorship, and the Sublime in the Late-Soviet Nature Reserve
Financial History Seminar
'Muddling through or tunnelling through?β UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism and the Great Inflation
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Childhood education and the fertility decline in England and Wales, 1870-1911
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Free souls, poor soils: the nature of slave emancipation in postcolonial Uruguay
Labour History Cluster
The Timeless Peasant & the Untimely Labourer: The Travails of Decolonising Labour in 20th Century Sri Lanka
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900
Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar
Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France
β οΈ Via Zoom
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Woodland and the Medieval Economic Expansion: a Comparative Perspective on North-West Europe
Labour History Cluster
Roundtable: Account books as Sources for Labour History
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
War and Prices: Austerity and the Cost of Living Index in Britain (c. 1939-1950)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892-1939
History and Economics Seminar
"The Largest Air-Conditioned Room in the World": Houston and the History of Climate Change
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Largest Air-Conditioned Room in the World: Houston and the History of Climate Change
Labour History Cluster
Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy - Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad'
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Settlement of the Poor in England c. 1660β1780: Law, Family, and Community
Labour History Cluster
Welcome lunch & New PhD student introductions
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Born in Smog: The Health Consequences of Historical Air Pollution
Quantitative History Seminar
A Perfect Storm: First-Nature Geography and Economic Development
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Violence and emigration; evidence from early modern Corsica.β
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Rural England Enfranchised: Tenurial Change and Political Mobilization, c.1550-1750
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The Gendered Dynamics of Violence in English Apprenticeship: Petitions to the Westminster and Middlesex Sessions, c. 1690-1830
β οΈ Please note that this event is in-person only.
Quantitative History Seminar
Quantifying Patenting by Women in the U.S., 1845-1924
History and Economics Seminar
From βGreen Revolutionβ to βEconomic Liberalizationβ in 1970s-80s' India: Impacts of Oil Crises in a Global Perspective
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Joint Session : Inequality in the Early Middle Ages / Wellbeing in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Labour History Cluster
The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The public speaks back: health communication in Britain, 1980s-2020.β **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION**
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Antitrust policies and their effects on the development of the American film industry (1900-1960)
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars
β οΈ Room changed. This event is now hybrid. Please see below for the Teams link.
Quantitative History Seminar
Was the Industrial Revolution censored in Austria before 1848? Institutional Change and Useful Human Capital in the Wake of the 1848 Revolutions
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Challenges in estimating historical crisis mortality: spatial heterogeneity, endogenous incompleteness, sample size, and ad hoc methods.β
History and Economics Seminar
Transition, revolution, modernity: (re)thinking capitalism with Eric Hobsbawm
Labour History Cluster
New Books in Labour History
Labour History Cluster
Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.β
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Argentine Economic Policy Pendulum: A Refined Measure of Policy Volatility and Its Economic Consequences (1880β2019)
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era
Financial History Seminar
Money: a Treasury-centric view
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800
Quantitative History Seminar
The cultural legacy of historical ethnic violence: The impact on access to finance and innovation
History and Economics Seminar
A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.β
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Economic Growth and Productivity of China, 1840-2010
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
How Sick Were the Three Sick Men? Comparing Manufacturing Productivities in the Ottoman, Russian, and Qing Empires in World War Iβs Eve
Financial History Seminar
What does it mean to Democratize Finance?
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Property, debt, and womenβs economic agency in 18th-century Austria
Quantitative History Seminar
Railway closures in France, 1900-1940
History and Economics Seminar
The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Lone Rangers? How Did Trade Develop in Eastern Europe During the Cold War?
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Heart of the Empire: Constructing the London Docklands, 1799-1886
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.β
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Reconsidering the Southern European Household: Wealth, Credit and Servanthood in Central Sicily, 1584-1623
Financial History Seminar
The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72.
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
"There was no auditor who could trip him up": Demesne managers and the auditing process in 14th-century England and Wales
Quantitative History Seminar
New Perspectives on the Economic History of War
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
People, places, and peers - fertility trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881-1911.β β
History and Economics Seminar
"Fallacies of misplaced concreteness"? The use of History in post-war environmental arguments
Labour History Cluster
Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain
Financial History Seminar
A new history of the interwar Bank of England
Labour History Cluster
Reasons to rebel: Revisiting the 1980s
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences Between the Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast
Labour History Cluster
Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Sixty Eears after Fogelβs Social Savings: Measuring the Growth Impact of Railways in the Periphery
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Industrialisation, Economic Development, the Industrial Revolution and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 β 1911 (with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Royal Justice, Society and Economy in Medieval England: Evidence from Derbyshire
Labour History Cluster
Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe
Quantitative History Seminar
From endemicity to demise - Malaria in Denmark ca. 1800-1900
History and Economics Seminar
A History of Non-Sustainable Integration: High-Speed Rail, Europeanisation, and the Failure of the "Nordic Triangle", 1985-2005
β οΈ Joint meeting with the Modern European History Research seminar.
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361β62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The intoxicant economy in early modern England
Quantitative History Seminar
Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britainβs economic development, 1660-1720
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean
History and Economics Seminar
Peter Pan Pachyderms? What a doomed experiment to reintroduce elephants taught us about animal cultures
β οΈ Joint meeting with the World History seminar.
Quantitative History Seminar
Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony
History and Economics Seminar
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
β οΈ Joint meeting with the Global Economic History seminar.
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?)
Quantitative History Seminar
The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison
Financial History Seminar
How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Sex and the City Centre: Prostitution, Urban Planning, and Sociological Research in 1960s Lebanon
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Faith and Finance in the Early Modern World: The capital market of Manila and the financing of the Pacific Trade, 1668-1820
Quantitative History Seminar
Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia
History and Economics Seminar
'Growing up nuclear': Childhood memories of nuclear power in Cold War Finland
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain
Financial History Seminar
How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance manβs view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks.
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Income Inequality around the Year Zero: Quantitative Insights from Chinese Literary Sources
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911
History and Economics Seminar
'Patient Planet': An Environmental History of Globalization
Financial History Seminar
The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.
Quantitative History Seminar
Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand Spinning
Financial History Seminar
Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Who were the Hand-Spinners and Handloom Weavers When Industrialisation Struck? Findings from Silesia and the Swiss Canton of Glarus, First Half of the 19th Century.
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girlsβ education in the first half of the eighteenth century
Quantitative History Seminar
Demographic Losses in Poland during World War II 1939β1945. Verification of Mass Sources and the Method of Estimation during Border Changes
History and Economics Seminar
'Black coal is capital, white coal is revenue': French hydropower and the idea of renewable energy, 1889-1919
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Deconstructing Development Realities in India
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761
History and Economics Seminar
Properties of Empire: Contests over the Commons on Newfoundlandβs French Shore, 1763-1783
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The economic government of the world 1933-2023
β οΈ All welcome
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor. Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller (1890-1914)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)
β οΈ All welcome
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914
β οΈ All welcome
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Wine Production and Exchange in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries: A Micro-Economic Analysisβ
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community
β οΈ All welcome
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914
β οΈ All welcome
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Factory families: textile work and womenβs life courses in late nineteenth-century Derbyshire
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Railroad Expansion, Local Shocks and Individual Opportunities: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR
β οΈ All welcome
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic
History and Economics Seminar
Border crossings - mapping UK discussions about partition at the 75th anniversary of 1947
β οΈ Jointly with the World History Seminar
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Monetary policies and practices: money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe
Quantitative History Seminar
The occupational structure of the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley: institutions, gender, and experiences
History and Economics Seminar
Political engagement, profession and socialist economics in fin-de-siècle Europe
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care in Early Modern England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mapping the Miasmaβ. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic
History and Economics Seminar
Springtime in the City: Time, Seasons, and the Transnational Urban Environment
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime
Quantitative History Seminar
Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italyβ
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
CANCELLED: βRendered much cheaper, than our work-people can makeβ; Womenβs employment in textile manufacturing and English political economy, 1688-1722
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920
β οΈ Cancelled due to industrial action
Financial History Seminar
How Big Bang ruined the City. Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 financial crisis and all that followed?
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Ottoman Women in Cartoons (1870-1911)
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic
Quantitative History Seminar
Industrialization in the Habsburg Empire: A spatial analysis
History and Economics Seminar
A web of entanglements: following East African cowries across land and oceans (18th-19th century)
β οΈ Jointly with the African Economic History seminar
Financial History Seminar
The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850
Financial History Seminar
Whatβs in a Bubble? The South Sea Bubble and the conceptual history of financial crisis.
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620
Quantitative History Seminar
POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy
β οΈ Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.
Financial History Seminar
An exchange rate history of the United Kingdom, 1945β1992
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office
β οΈ Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Paternalism and the politics of βtoll cornβ in early modern England
History and Economics Seminar
Building Barrios and seeking sexual rights: womenβs activism in Spain from the 1950s to the 1980s
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Felonsβ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600
β οΈ All welcome
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851β1921
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
A Respectable Living and Womenβs Work, England, 1270-1860
Labour History Cluster
Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Necessity of Bubbles
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations
History and Economics Seminar
Consumption and inclusion in Indian mid-century planning: The universal opulence of PC Mahalanobis
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England
History and Economics Seminar
Empire of inequality: the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire, 1900-1950s
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The paradox of being poor, yet well fed and warm. Material welfare levels in the 17th and 18th century Southern Low Countries
Financial History Seminar
The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Family conflict, legal strategies, and womenβs litigation in early modern Scotland
Financial History Seminar
Popular attitudes to taxation in Britain c. 1945-1992: reassessing the evidence
History and Economics Seminar
Regimes of work precarity. Workers' uncertainty in France during the postwar economic boom
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Real wages and wages in reality: Lessons from a Swedish royal stud farm
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Barbary Newton: An Absentee Slave-Owner in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Financial History Seminar
Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism revisited, 1973-1993
History and Economics Seminar
The patriarchy of diaspora: Race fantasy and gender blindness in Chen Daβs studies of the Nanyang Chinese in Southeast Asia
β οΈ We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_leow.htm
Financial History Seminar
The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Lecture 4: Adam Smith in Mesopotamia
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Lecture 3: Domar and Habakkuk on the Euphrates
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Lecture 2: Malthus in the Levant
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Lecture 1: What the Natufians did for us
History and Economics Seminar
Contested Values: Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, USA, 1979-1989
β οΈ We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries
Financial History Seminar
Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts
Financial History Seminar
The politics of money: Presidential power and the Federal Reserve System
History and Economics Seminar
Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective
β οΈ We may be forced to review meeting in-person in which case links to online registration will be posted here: http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Making money in the early Middle Ages
History and Economics Seminar
The Judicial Counterrevolution to Reconstruction
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/bowie.html
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Tropical development
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Capitalism β a concept too big to fail?
History and Economics Seminar
Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ogle.html
History and Economics Seminar
The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States)
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/barreyre_lemercier.html
History and Economics Seminar
The Significance of Small Things: Towards a History of Dam Building in the Twentieth Century
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/ghosh.html
History and Economics Seminar
Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/zalc.html
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries
Quantitative History Seminar
Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach
Quantitative History Seminar
The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey
Quantitative History Seminar
Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution
Financial History Seminar
Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia
Financial History Seminar
The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915
Financial History Seminar
HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of Chinaβs mortality decline in recent decades
β οΈ Note unusual time
History and Economics Seminar
Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/jenny_andersson.htm
Financial History Seminar
Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921β1939
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010
History and Economics Seminar
The Vagrancy of Economic Invisibility
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link:https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/trivellato.html
Financial History Seminar
Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983
History and Economics Seminar
Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/megan_black.htm
Financial History Seminar
The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation
History and Economics Seminar
Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Revolution
β οΈ Register here for Zoom link: https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/warde.html
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750β1860
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The UKβs disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979β2003
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Writing the history of education as social and economic history
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400
Financial History Seminar
Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36.
Quantitative History Seminar
When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain
Financial History Seminar
Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian
Financial History Seminar
Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973
Financial History Seminar
City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900
Financial History Seminar
The anatomy of Britainβs inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population
Quantitative History Seminar
How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870
Financial History Seminar
Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The βunruly infectedβ: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625
History and Economics Seminar
Courts, commerce, and labor. Investigating lay courts in nineteenth century Paris and France
Quantitative History Seminar
The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern
History and Economics Seminar
Prospecting and bioprospecting on Russia's Central Asian cotton frontier, 1880s - 1916
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
CANCELLED: The anatomy of Britainβs inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 βmillionaireβ population
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)
History and Economics Seminar
The Religious Roots of Environmentalist Thought and Activism in Europe and America
Financial History Seminar
City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence
History and Economics Seminar
Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office
History and Economics Seminar
Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands
Quantitative History Seminar
Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780β1790)
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons
Financial History Seminar
Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
MPhil Presentations
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
MPhil Presentations
Modern Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar
'The school case of 'Poor Harold': remembering and forgetting deceased children within family life in Britain, c.1900-50s
Quantitative History Seminar
Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815
Financial History Seminar
Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Origins of βPenitentsβ: The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Inmates in an English Anglican Magdalen Home, 1848-1914
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618
Modern Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar
Prescribing childlessness: advice on infertility before in-vitro fertilisation in Britain, 1950-1980
Quantitative History Seminar
The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today
Financial History Seminar
Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Consumption Change in the Early and Mid-Qing: A Case Study of the Lower Yangze Delta
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution
Modern Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar
'Full marks to this sex-help clinic for the teenage lover'. The Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham (1964-1980)
Financial History Seminar
The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the worldβs first soundly-funded pension plan
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The spatial distribution of Italy's population and the emergence of Zipf's Law, 1861-1991
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The medieval clothier
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The occupational structure of Chongqing in the Upper Yangzi Valley, China, 19th and 20th centuries
Modern Social and Economic History & Policy Seminar
'Statisticians of the World, Unite!': The Statistical Society of London and the Making of Social Statisticians, 1833-1877
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The diffusion of mechanised technologies in the West Riding of Yorkshire textile industry c.1780Ββ1911 and its impact on employment and wages
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Years of Turbulence, Years of Hope: Central African Copperbelt and the Industrial Development in Congo-LΓ©opoldville and Zambia, from the Political Independence to the Economic Nationalization
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Credit time horizons as ethical boundaries
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Safeguarding the future: families, education, and contract
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
European integration and immigration policy, French and British experiences, 1976-1992
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Impatient and patient capital: housing and democracy
Ellen McArthur Lectures
Time horizons as market boundaries in private, public and social enterprise
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in China and Singapore, 1919-1937
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Industrial development paths from an evolutionary perspective: the Chinese case, 1998-2013
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Spinelli Family: A mid-sized Florentine firmβs response to the opening of the Americas and Cape Route trade, 1450-1520
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Women in banking: the introduction of the βPersonal Bankerβ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Patterns of female employment in the Pays de Caux and the Perche, 1792-1901
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900
Quantitative History Seminar
160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions
β οΈ Note change of date
History and Economics Seminar
The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought. 170 years on, the legacy and current thinking
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared
History and Economics Seminar
South Atlantic Capitalisms: dictatorship, law, and economic life in interwar Portugal and Brazil
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Debtorsβ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Lord, state and community elites in the late medieval and early modern village: the evidence of manorial officeholding
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-RhΓ΄ne, South of France)
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines
Financial History Seminar
What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies?
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workersβ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Fortunes of urban fullers in fourteenth-century England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland
β οΈ Note start time of 5pm
Financial History Seminar
Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660
Financial History Seminar
The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
βWomenβ, βLadsβ and βCopersβ: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765
Financial History Seminar
Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899
Financial History Seminar
Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Coinage in the later medieval countryside: single-finds and the evidence from Rendlesham, Suffolk
History and Economics Seminar
How India Became Democratic: Comparative Perspectives (Panel discussion led by Gary Gerstle and Tim Harper)
β οΈ Jointly with The American and World History Seminars
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire
Financial History Seminar
Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Architecture and the English economy, 1200-1500: a new history of the parish church over the longue durΓ©e
History and Economics Seminar
An intellectual history of the universal basic income
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach
Financial History Seminar
Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Elite women and the agricultural landscape
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The exceptional case of the late medieval English economy: comparing price, wage and rent trends to Scotland and the Southern Low Countries
History and Economics Seminar
A World of Goods: Ecology and Commodity Production in Europeβs Empires
Quantitative History Seminar
Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Whom to trust to moralise the market
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Why Malthus wasnβt African. Reviewing explanations and implications of low population densities in pre-1900 Sub-Saharan Africa
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Building a Demographic Profile of Foreign Seamen in the British Navy, 1793-1815
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Using 'big data' to explore household and family structures in England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Imperial Germany, Pax Britannica, and the Political Economy of the Gold Standard, 1871-1914
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Between Economic Pragmatism and the 'Civilising Mission': Making a Case for the Domestic Electrification of Southern Nigeria, 1930 to 1960
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
History and Economics Seminar
The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Crime, Punishment, and Body Snatching: Contested Memories of the 1797 Naval Mutinies
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Central Electricity Board - Accidental Conservationists?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The patriarchal republic: local officeholding in early modern England
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Great European Famine of 1315-7 revisited: nature, institutions and demography
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Respectable banking: the search for stability in Londonβs money and credit markets since 1695
History and Economics Seminar
Lenin on the Train
History and Economics Seminar
New Earths, Newer Animals: Repairing Nature's Oversight
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy
History and Economics Seminar
The Kenyatta Trial as an International Legal Event: Decolonization, Diaspora, and Rebellious Lawyers
Quantitative History Seminar
The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Revisiting Vinogradoffβs interpretation of Bracton: why was a servus not a slave?
Quantitative History Seminar
150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate Change and Globalisation
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access
Financial History Seminar
Money: the unauthorised biography
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
MPhil Presentations Part II
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire
History and Economics Seminar
"Earth butchery": explaining the end of empire in Europe and America, c.1750-1865
Financial History Seminar
Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?
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Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
MPhil Presentations Part I
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The role of pragmatic literacy in estate management
History and Economics Seminar
'The breath of history on our necksβ: the European revolutionary left and Portugal, 1974-1975
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism
Financial History Seminar
The London merchant banks and the road to the 1931 crisis
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Travelling to town: medieval peasants in the urban marketplace
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Drainage and water supply in 18th century London
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Divergences or varieties in European economic development?
History and Economics Seminar
Industrialization, labour conflict, and the role of state and trade unions in Vietnam
Financial History Seminar
UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Treaty of Westminster: a turning point for the Anglo Iberian trade in the late 15th century?
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The Suffolk clothier in the age of Henry VII
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Industrialisation, inter-sectoral linkage and occupational structure: Britain, Germany and Japan, c.1850-1935
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Inequality and social mobility in medieval England
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Family structure and the admission of children to the workhouse in post-famine Ireland
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Welfare and industrial conflict in the Italian automobile industry, 1968-1975
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Eating and drinking as a medieval peasant. Innovations in table manners in late medieval rural Valencia
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Labouring in early modern London
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The economics of the βSecond Slaveryβ in the Jihad states of West Africa
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Does sterilised central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rate? The case of the British Exchange Equalisation Account, 1952-1972
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Patterns of manorial office holding at late medieval and early modern Little Downham, 1300-1600
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867
History and Economics Seminar
'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867
Quantitative History Seminar
Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The changing fortunes of Poole, Lyme and Melcombe: wool, cloth, tax, trade and the fifteenth century Dorset economy
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Trust and Inequality in Late Medieval England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition
Economic and Social History Seminars
A Killer In Search of a Trial: Criminal Lunacy in the British Empire
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)
Financial History Seminar
Related investing: corporate ownership and the dynamics of capital mobilization during industrialization
Quantitative History Seminar
Anglo-American productivity differentials once again
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Patterns of migration in late-medieval England
History and Economics Seminar
From Antislavery to Colonialism
Financial History Seminar
The βBimetallic Controversyβ and the golden age of monetary orthodoxy, 1880-1900
Quantitative History Seminar
Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (4)
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (3)
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (2)
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (1)
Financial History Seminar
The end of the Swiss economic model
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy
History and Economics Seminar
Ethical Capitalism? The Rise of British Humanitarianism after 1947
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The shock to reinvigorate medieval economic history?
Financial History Seminar
Respectable banking: the search for stability in Londonβs money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe
Quantitative History Seminar
Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland
Financial History Seminar
Individual investors in the late nineteenth century: what did they invest in, and why?
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1700-1850
History and Economics Seminar
Nazi Atrocities, Soviet Justice, and International Law
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Beveridge calling: The social insurance and allied services and the Mediterranean welfare model, 1942-1950s
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy
Economic and Social History Seminars
Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
What was linen? Flax and hemp at home and work in 18th-century England
Economic and Social History Seminars
Human Security, Food and International Order, 1918-1939
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The local and transnational organisation of the nascent Newfoundland dry cod trade, 1550-1650
Economic and Social History Seminars
Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Land market and the long 12th century transformation in Foligno county
Economic and Social History Seminars
British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different?
β οΈ Note this seminar will start at 5.30pm
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
A comparative analysis of payday lending in America and Britain, 1900-1930s
Economic and Social History Seminars
Medieval English Peasants and Culture
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900
Economic and Social History Seminars
Was Domar Right? The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Bank of England and the Genesis of Modern Management
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Adapting to workplace technological change over the long run: Evidence from US longitudinal data
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Land and credit in the asset allocations of the Jews in late 14th-century Zaragoza
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History
β οΈ Please note earlier start time of 12.10pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available at the start.
History and Economics Seminar
The Scottish Question and the Break-up of Britain
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name?
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Consumption and trade in East Anglian market towns and their hinterlands in the late middle ages
Financial History Seminar
Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Rational investment behaviour on manorial estates β Grain storage in the Rhineland area and Westphalia (18th & 19th century)
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Peasant farmers and their workers in medieval England
History and Economics Seminar
Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite
Financial History Seminar
Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934
Quantitative History Seminar
Railways and population: spatial interactions
β οΈ Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.
Financial History Seminar
The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015
History and Economics Seminar
The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding a Useful Past in Japan
Quantitative History Seminar
Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain
Financial History Seminar
Mr Osborneβs Economic Experiment
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings
β οΈ We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.
History and Economics Seminar
Property and Portfolios: Spaces of Finance in Nineteenth-century France
Financial History Seminar
British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
MPhil Presentations
History and Economics Seminar
Black Networks after Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
MPhil Presentations
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Medieval textiles and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a handmaidenβs yarn
Quantitative History Seminar
The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Pauper inventories and the material lives of the English poor, c.1680-1834
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors
Financial History Seminar
Rating the United Kingdom: The British governmentβs first sovereign credit ratings
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Revisiting the Urban Graveyard Debate: An analysis of mortality differences between natives and migrants in North-Western European port cities: Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1930
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790
Financial History Seminar
Going beyond βmarket versus stateβ: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Justifying inequality: peasants in medieval ideology
History and Economics Seminar
The South Asian Monsoon: A History for the Anthropocene
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries
Financial History Seminar
What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s
Quantitative History Seminar
Womenβs work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain
Economic and Social History Seminars
Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England
Economic and Social History Seminars
What was an organic economy?
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Fiscal-Military State and the Land Tax - Observations from Kent and London
Economic and Social History Seminars
The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Ideal vs Reality? The Ideal of the Breadwinner-Homemaker Household in Industrializing Regions in the Netherlands, ca. 1890
Economic and Social History Seminars
International currencies past, present and future: two views from economic history
Financial History Seminar
State Dissolution, Sovereign Debt and Default: Lessons from Irish independence.
Economic and Social History Seminars
Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750
β οΈ Note change of venue: Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
Financial History Seminar
The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The impact of mechanization upon female and male employment in the English textile industry, circa 1780-1851
β οΈ Note change of speaker
Economic and Social History Seminars
Summer in the City: banking failures of 1974 and the development of international banking supervision
β οΈ Note change of day: Friday
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Carrying Trade
β οΈ Note change of start time: 12.30pm
Economic and Social History Seminars
How much venereal disease was there in England's modern demographic history?
Financial History Seminar
Jacques Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) and the Transformation of Modern Political Discourse
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381
Financial History Seminar
Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59
Quantitative History Seminar
Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective
Financial History Seminar
This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
βTo dig and to delve and to drive away hungerβ: peasants and the intensification of English agriculture, 1000-1300
Financial History Seminar
Finance and the real economy.
Quantitative History Seminar
French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
'Pity the poor keelmenβ . Modelling seasonal work and annual income in early industrial Newcastle upon Tyne
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
A war over water: the contestation of river environments in medieval and early modern England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain
Financial History Seminar
Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the East India Company
Quantitative History Seminar
Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion?Β
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
βKnow all men whom this may concerne...β . The Protestation returns and early modern social and economic history
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The brewing industry in England revisited
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
What can autobiographies tell us about women's time-use in 19th century England?
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The brewing industry in England revisited
History and Economics Seminar
Inter-Asian mΓ©tissage: Other boundaries of rule and indigenous social hierarchies in French Indochina
Financial History Seminar
The political economy of inflation in the 1970s
Quantitative History Seminar
Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834
History and Economics Seminar
The debate on inequality from Rousseau to Marx
Financial History Seminar
The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
"The Dust Was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl
History and Economics Seminar
The development of the labour movement and political thought in Belgium in the 19th century
Quantitative History Seminar
The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Maintaining oneself in early modern England
Financial History Seminar
Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The transformation of the costs of children and its impact on reproductive behaviour: a comparative analysis of the second demographic transition in Switzerland
History and Economics Seminar
Modern Times: Work, play and Afro-diasporic rhythms, from Moreau de Saint-MΓ©ry to Siegfried Kracauer
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Probate records as a source of occupational information
Financial History Seminar
Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Economics of Salvation in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Office holding, social status and stability in a small town, 1661-1861
Economic and Social History Seminars
Throwaway Society? Writing a new history of consumption in the early twenty-first century
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1928-31
Economic and Social History Seminars
βEstate Reconstitutionβ and the Separation of Town and Countryside: the case of Kentβs rural-urban fringe, 1577-1914
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The multiplicitous networks of the East India Company, 1599-1603
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Poor and the Poorest fifty years on
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Measuring Immigrant Crime in London: The Irish 1801-1820
Economic and Social History Seminars
From Mercantilism to Macroeconomics
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
17th & 18th century land taxes in England; 'hardly changed since the middle ages' or cutting edge technology. A Kent case study
Economic and Social History Seminars
Rethinking Chinaβs Path of Industrialization β The Role of State and Institutions
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Female employment in the nineteenth century censuses: Methods, pitfalls, and prostitutes
Economic and Social History Seminars
Call the midwife: death in childbirth in historical perspective
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
'Kin-servant' in 1881 British Census Enumerators' Books: Actual Work or Random Enumeration
Economic and Social History Seminars
Assessing economic freedom in historical perspective: the experience of OECD countries
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914
Economic and Social History Seminars
Coverture: The Medieval Perspective
History and Economics Seminar
Open Access: A Forum
Financial History Seminar
Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Male Occupational Structure of Norwich, circa 1720-1841: Evidence from Quarter Session and Other Records
Financial History Seminar
Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Real wages and the household: Quantifying the economy of makeshifts of the poor in 18th-century England
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
History and Economics Seminar
Constructions of Authority in 14th Century Morocco: The Material Argument for Marinid Rule
History and Economics Seminar
Between Privilege and Property: Four Conceptions of Copyright in Late-Qing China
Financial History Seminar
The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The volcano Laki in 1783: a serial killer? A French-English comparison
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Financial History Seminar
The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824
History and Economics Seminar
Poverty and Climate: A Conversation
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Medieval Economic and Social History
Foreign exchange (FX) and interest rates in the middle ages
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Financial History Seminar
A Global Census of Corporations in 1910
History and Economics Seminar
The Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution (1947-1964)
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Financial History Seminar
Scandal!: American business magazines in the Great Depression
Quantitative History Seminar
Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Impoverishing development? Institution-building in Colonial Punjab (1849-1947)
Financial History Seminar
Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy
Financial History Seminar
Of Rules and Exceptions: Financing a Modern Steel Industry in the United States, 1865-1888
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Financial History Seminar
The formative years of a modern corporation: the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1623
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Widows' Work: Some Evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Irish Famine: Britainβs Biggest Economic Policy Failure?
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Linking Business and Philanthropy: The Social Concerns and Philanthropic Behaviours of Bombay's Mercantile Elite, 1845-1870
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
(1) βNew findings from the family reconstitution data.β and (2) βNothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.β
β οΈ Please note that this extended seminar will run from 12 till 3pm. There will be two papers with a break for sandwiches 1.15 to 1.45.
Financial History Seminar
Making the market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the late eighteenth century
Medieval Economic and Social History
Pleading and proof in Wakefield manor court: the use of written evidence, 1274-1381
Financial History Seminar
Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Business and politics in late medieval Iberia: mercantile elites in the Kingdom of Aragon (1380-1430)
Medieval Economic and Social History
Weather and human livelihood. England in the late middle ages
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Aspects of Agrarian Change in South Staffordshire: A Case Study of Kingswinford, 1650 to 1750
Financial History Seminar
The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh
β οΈ *Please note this seminar will start at the later time of 1 p.m.
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Real Wages and the Family: Adjusting Real Wages to Changing Demography in Pre-Modern England
Financial History Seminar
The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008
Financial History Seminar
Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Curious Case of Yorkshire Luddism
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Schools of Industry and Habits of Industriousness: Making childhood pay in the early Nineteenth Century
Financial History Seminar
The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, 1870-1913
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
βIndustrialisation and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community, c. 1600-1684β
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30 p.m.
Financial History Seminar
New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Studying the Stayers: occupation, kin links and stability
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
The prevalence of venereal diseases in 1913. Who was right? Christabel Pankhurst or the Royal Commission?
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30.
Financial History Seminar
Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England
Economic and Social History Seminars
English prices 1170-1750
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
The Revolt in Rural Cambridgeshire in 1381
Economic and Social History Seminars
Economic development and structural change since 1700. New evidence in a global perspective
Economic and Social History Seminars
Living standards, human capital and the Industrial Revolution
Economic and Social History Seminars
The political economy of democracy: some thoughts on nationhood and citizenship in post-colonial India
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
Women and Children First: A Brief Look at Working Class Women and Children Commuters in London in the 1890s and 1900s
Economic and Social History Seminars
Markets and pre-industrial economic growth: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries 6th-18th centuries
Economic and Social History Seminars
The transformation of the urban epidemiological regime in north west Europe, 1700-1850
Economic and Social History Seminars
The political economy of wool in Britain, 1662-1824
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
"Go --West-- North-East Young Man!" Male & Female Migration in 1881
Economic and Social History Seminars
A great leap forward: 1930s depression and US economic growth
Economic and Social History Seminars
Geopolitics and the world population problem: 1920s and 1930s
Financial History Seminar
A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse
Financial History Seminar
The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897
Financial History Seminar
Financial innovation and the crisis
Financial History Seminar
βMidas, transmuting all, into paperβ: the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the Napoleonic Wars
Financial History Seminar
Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Illusions of exactness: counting Scotland's population before 1801
β οΈ Sandwiches available from 12:30
Financial History Seminar
An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s
β οΈ http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/borromei/index.html
Quantitative History Seminar
Chamberlain, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian Economy
β οΈ Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30
Financial History Seminar
'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?'
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Does Gibratβs Law hold for all times and all places? A study of the growth of British cities prior to 1913
Economic and Social History Seminars
East-West dialogues: World Economic History Congresses and the legacies of the Cold War
β οΈ History and Economics Seminar
Financial History Seminar
Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
English Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages
Financial History Seminar
Institutions, Deficits or Wars, on the determinants of the borrowing costs of the British government: 1688-1850 and beyond
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Contemporary perceptions of international migrants in England and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries
β οΈ Cancelled. This talk will be re-scheduled for the Easter term.
Quantitative History Seminar
Large scale institutional changes: Land demarcation within the British Empire
β οΈ This seminar is being held in conjuction with the Centre for Quantitative Economic History
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Twentieth Century as the Age of Internationalism
β οΈ History and Economics Seminar
Financial History Seminar
The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939
Financial History Seminar
Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925
Financial History Seminar
The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880β1914
Economic and Social History Seminars
Perceptions of population in England c.1550 to 1750
Economic and Social History Seminars
Can we draw lessons on economic development from the Champagne Fairs?
Financial History Seminar
Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008
Economic and Social History Seminars
Sex before the sexual revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963
Economic and Social History Seminars
The rise and decline of European Parliaments 1288-1789
Financial History Seminar
Blissfully Ignorant: The RΓ΄le of State Financial and Managerial Assistance in the Decline of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1980
Economic and Social History Seminars
The growth and development of the British Economy 1270-1870
Economic and Social History Seminars
East-West dialogues: World Economic History Congresses and the legacies of the Cold War
Financial History Seminar
God and risk: The role of religion in rural cooperative banking in early twentieth-century Netherlands
Economic and Social History Seminars
Unreal wages: Long-run standards of living and the βgolden ageβ of the fifteenth century
Economic and Social History Seminars
Re-thinking class identities in post-war Britain
Financial History Seminar
The Value of Regulation and Reputation: Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913
Economic and Social History Seminars
Some reflections on the origins and causes of the mortality revolution: The English evidence 1300-1800
Financial History Seminar
Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan
Economic and Social History Seminars
Do cultural values override incentives? Sex ratio, caste and marriage: Evidence from India
Financial History Seminar
Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 β 1914
Economic and Social History Seminars
'A conundrum resolved? Courtship, marriage and the growth of population in eighteenth-century England
Financial History Seminar
'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives'
β οΈ This talk has been re-scheduled from the Michaelmas term, when it was delayed due to speaker illness.
Economic and Social History Seminars
Work, family and βindustrious womenβ: an analysis of a test sample from the 1931-41 Farm Household Surveys
Financial History Seminar
Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires
Economic and Social History Seminars
Work. Division of labour, household and conceptions of gender in Sweden 1550-1610
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ralph Tailor's Summer: a scrivener, his city, and the plague
Economic and Social History Seminars
General purpose technologies and economic growth: Electrical diffusion in the manufacturing centre before WWII
Economic and Social History Seminars
The tides of democracy: shipyard workers and social relations in Britian, 1870-1950
Economic and Social History Seminars
British Economic Growth, 1300-1850
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Evolution of Commercial Law in Europe (1250-1650)
Financial History Seminar
'Keynes, the Investor'
Economic and Social History Seminars
'Meddlesome Bureaucrats and Ratepayer Democracies: Public Health and the Public Sphere in Victorian England
Economic and Social History Seminars
Mortality decline in eighteenth century London: new evidence from burials by cause, age and burial cost from the sextons' books of St Martin in the Fields
Economic and Social History Seminars
Evaluating worth and status in early modern England
Financial History Seminar
'The Collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878, and other nineteenth century failures'
Economic and Social History Seminars
Labour and the life cycle in early modern England: the age of apprenticeship, c. 1600-c.1800
Economic and Social History Seminars
'Measurement Practices and Institutional Change in the nineteenth-century British Economy
Economic and Social History Seminars
Production and Consumption in Early Modern Berkshire, 1650-1750
Economic and Social History Seminars
Household movement and changes in residential structure
Financial History Seminar
'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories'
Economic and Social History Seminars
Menβs unemployment and job opportunities for women: an analysis of the 1834 Poor Law Report
Economic and Social History Seminars
Leverhulme Lecture
Economic and Social History Seminars
Leverhulme Lecture
Financial History Seminar
'Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914'
Economic and Social History Seminars
Leverhulme Lecture
Economic and Social History Seminars
Leverhulme Lecture
Financial History Seminar
'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation'
Economic and Social History Seminars
Mr. Woodcroft and the Value of English Patents, 1617-1841
Financial History Seminar
'Reflections from the Mirror of Folly: Lord Londonderry and the Stock Market Bubbles of Paris, Amsterdam and London in 1720'
Financial History Seminar
'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'
Economic and Social History Seminars
Starving times: Popular Responses to the English Economic Crises of the 1690s
Financial History Seminar
'The economics of badmouthing: Defamation, rackeetering and the French Financial Press at the end of the 19th century.'
Economic and Social History Seminars
The legacy of Joan Robinson
Economic and Social History Seminars
Social mobility in a Danish rural society 1750-1850 and its background- structures, strategies and conclusions
Economic and Social History Seminars
Living at their own hand? Policing the youthful poor in rural England, c. 1620-c.1750
Financial History Seminar
'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'
Financial History Seminar
'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'
β οΈ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (4)
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (3)
Economic and Social History Seminars
Spaces of Risk and Public Health: hospital, school and home in Victorian Britain
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (2)
Economic and Social History Seminars
Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (1)
Financial History Seminar
'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.'
β οΈ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html
Economic and Social History Seminars
Death certification and social class in mid-nineteenth century London: diagnosis and the loss of the patient narrative
Economic and Social History Seminars
Incidence Analysis of the Restoration and Hanoverian Excise: A Case Study of the Brewing Industry
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Evolution of the British Economy. Anglo-Scottish trade and political Union; an inter-regional perspective, 1580-1750
Economic and Social History Seminars
Wage levels, gender and domestic service in England, 1650-1850
Economic and Social History Seminars
Exposing 'the private life of John Bull'? Sex and the popular press in post-war Britain
Economic and Social History Seminars
The American Welfare State and Social Contract in Hard Times
Financial History Seminar
'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007'
β οΈ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html
Economic and Social History Seminars
Mega-Structures of the Middle Ages: The Construction of Religious Buildings in Europe and Asia, c. 1000-1500
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Gender inequality and change in stature in India during the Twentieth Century
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Cities, markets and the sea: Explaining the ups and downs of height in early nineteenth century England and Wales
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Widows, wills and economic assets in pre-industrial Britain
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Household and plague in early modern Italy
Please see above for contact details for this list.