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Pinar Ceylan, Cambridge and Christopher Markiewicz, Ghent.
Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-19:00
Additional seminars of interest to Campop members
Additional seminars of interest to Campop members.
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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The business of grain milling in England, c.1540-1800
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
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
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
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.
Labour History Cluster
The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain
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.
Labour History Cluster
New Books in Labour History
Labour History Cluster
Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Property, debt, and womenβs economic agency in 18th-century Austria
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
Labour History Cluster
Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The intoxicant economy in early modern England
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britainβs economic development, 1660-1720
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy
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?)
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The economic government of the world 1933-2023
β οΈ All welcome
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
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
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
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Monetary policies and practices: money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care in Early Modern England
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records
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
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Paternalism and the politics of βtoll cornβ in early modern England
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Family conflict, legal strategies, and womenβs litigation in early modern Scotland
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
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
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?
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century
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
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
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
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The βunruly infectedβ: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern
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)
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
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons
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
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The medieval clothier
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
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution
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
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Women in banking: the introduction of the βPersonal Bankerβ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900
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
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660
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
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Coinage in the later medieval countryside: single-finds and the evidence from Rendlesham, Suffolk
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire
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
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
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
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
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death
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
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Revisiting Vinogradoffβs interpretation of Bracton: why was a servus not a slave?
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The role of pragmatic literacy in estate management
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Travelling to town: medieval peasants in the urban marketplace
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Divergences or varieties in European economic development?
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The Suffolk clothier in the age of Henry VII
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
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Inequality and social mobility in medieval England
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Labouring in early modern London
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
The economics of the βSecond Slaveryβ in the Jihad states of West Africa
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
The changing fortunes of Poole, Lyme and Melcombe: wool, cloth, tax, trade and the fifteenth century Dorset economy
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)
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
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)
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)
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?
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland
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
Economic and Social History Seminars
Human Security, Food and International Order, 1918-1939
Economic and Social History Seminars
Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden
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
Economic and Social History Seminars
Medieval English Peasants and Culture
Economic and Social History Seminars
Was Domar Right? The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia
Economic and Social History Seminars
The Bank of England and the Genesis of Modern Management
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Consumption and trade in East Anglian market towns and their hinterlands in the late middle ages
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
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.
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Medieval textiles and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a handmaidenβs yarn
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Justifying inequality: peasants in medieval ideology
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries
Economic and Social History Seminars
Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland
Economic and Social History Seminars
What was an organic economy?
Economic and Social History Seminars
The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world
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
Economic and Social History Seminars
How much venereal disease was there in England's modern demographic history?
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars
Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381
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
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
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
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The brewing industry in England revisited
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The brewing industry in England revisited
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars
Maintaining oneself in early modern England
Economic and Social History Seminars
Call the midwife: death in childbirth in historical perspective
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