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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

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The seminar meets Thursdays at 5pm. Due to the closure of the History Faculty, we will meet in the Erasmus Room, Queens’ College until further notice.

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All are welcome.

We run hybrid. Please check the individual event pages for the relevant Teams/Zoom link.

Convenors: Amy Erickson, Craig Muldrew, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Alexander Wakelam

The support of the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History) is gratefully acknowledged.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Amy Erickson; 16750; 49148. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

3 upcoming talks and 82 talks in the archive.

The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective

UserPinar Ceylan, Cambridge and Christopher Markiewicz, Ghent.

HouseErasmus room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-19:00

The business of grain milling in England, c.1540-1800

UserMike Braddick, Oxford.

HouseErasmus room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

The Timeless Peasant & the Untimely Labourer: The Travails of Decolonising Labour in 20th Century Sri Lanka

UserAndi Schubert (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Roundtable: Account books as Sources for Labour History

UserMelissa Calaresu, Katie Price, and Amy Erickson (all Cambridge).

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy - Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad'

UserKalathmika Natarajan (Exeter).

HouseLong Room, Gonville & Caius College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

Welcome lunch & New PhD student introductions

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Rural England Enfranchised: Tenurial Change and Political Mobilization, c.1550-1750

UserSteve Hindle (Washington University in St. Louis).

HouseSeminar Room B (Syndics Room), First Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 17:00-19:00

The Gendered Dynamics of Violence in English Apprenticeship: Petitions to the Westminster and Middlesex Sessions, c. 1690-1830

Please note that this event is in-person only.

UserHillary Taylor (University of Padua).

HouseDD48, Queens’ College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain

UserKyle Zarif, Yale University.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars

Room changed. This event is now hybrid. Please see below for the Teams link.

UserRory Butcher (University of Leeds).

HouseBoardroom in the Cambridge History Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

New Books in Labour History

UserMassimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s

UserAlex Langstaff, New York University.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800

UserAidan Collins (University of Newcastle).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

Property, debt, and women’s economic agency in 18th-century Austria

UserMatthias Donabaum (University of Vienna).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 27 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?

UserLiam Brunt (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain

UserLaura Schwarz, University of Warwick.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Reasons to rebel: Revisiting the 1980s

UserSheila Rowbotham.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 21 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective

UserMaria Agren, University of Uppsala.

HouseRoom 3, Faculty of History.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe

UserRadka Ε ustrovΓ‘, University of Vienna.

HouseHistory Faculty Board Room.

ClockWednesday 19 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

UserPhil Withington, University of Sheffield.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britain’s economic development, 1660-1720

UserEdmond Smith, University of Manchester.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 16 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean

UserNuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy

UserNatashia Glaisyer, University of York.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 02 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?)

UserSara Pennell, University of Greenwich.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 25 April 2024, 17:00-19:00

Faith and Finance in the Early Modern World: The capital market of Manila and the financing of the Pacific Trade, 1668-1820

UserJuan Rivas Moreno, London School of Economics.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 17:00-19:00

Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society

UserPerry Gauci, Oxford.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girls’ education in the first half of the eighteenth century

UserAmy Erickson, Cambridge.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761

UserAlexander Wakelam, Cambridge.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 25 January 2024, 17:00-19:00

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

UserMarjoleine Kars (MIT).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-19:00

Monetary policies and practices: money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe

UserChristopher Pihl (Uppsala).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 25 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care in Early Modern England

UserCharmian Mansell (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 11 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records

UserTim Stretton (Saint Mary’s University, Canada).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime

UserJulie Hardwick (UT Austin).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 27 April 2023, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED: β€˜Rendered much cheaper, than our work-people can make’; Women’s employment in textile manufacturing and English political economy, 1688-1722

UserHugo Bromley (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

UserMarjoleine Kars (MIT).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850

UserEugene Costello (UC Cork & Stockholm University).

HouseCrausaz Wordsworth Building, Robinson College, Adams Road.

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620

UserLi Jiang (Exeter).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Paternalism and the politics of β€œtoll corn” in early modern England

UserHillary Taylor (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 19 January 2023, 17:00-19:00

Labour History Cluster

Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950

UserArvand Mirsafian, Uppsala University.

HouseHistory Faculty Board Room.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England

UserBrodie Waddell (Birkbeck).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 02 June 2022, 17:00-19:00

Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue

UserDanielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

The paradox of being poor, yet well fed and warm. Material welfare levels in the 17th and 18th century Southern Low Countries

UserMaΓ―ka de Keyzer (KU Leuven).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Family conflict, legal strategies, and women’s litigation in early modern Scotland

UserRebecca Mason (Glasgow University).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Real wages and wages in reality: Lessons from a Swedish royal stud farm

UserJonas LindstrΓΆm (Uppsala universitet).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Barbary Newton: An Absentee Slave-Owner in Late Seventeenth-Century England

UserMisha Ewen (Historic Royal Palaces).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s

UserKarolina Hutkova (London School of Economics).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

The β€˜unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625

UserSamantha Williams (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

UserOscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

UserJessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons

UserRichard Bell, Oxford University.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries

UserFredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution

UserNuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

UserTawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workers’ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830

UserKathryn Gary, University of Lund.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660

UserEleanor Robson, University of Cambridge.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

β€˜Women’, β€˜Lads’ and β€˜Copers’: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765

UserMatthew Pawelski, University of Lancaster.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire

UserDr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

UserDr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Whom to trust to moralise the market

UserProf. Laurence Fontaine.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

UserSusan Flavin (Anglia University).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 9.

ClockThursday 18 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate Change and Globalisation

UserPoul Holm (Trinity College Dublin).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 9.

ClockThursday 04 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access

UserMargaret Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 9.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-19:00

Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire

UserJohn Morgan (University of Manchester).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism

UserJulie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

UserChristof Jeggle (University of WΓΌrzburg).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice

UserJames Shaw (University of Sheffield).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

UserHΓΌlya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)

UserBeatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England

UserLloyd Bonfield (New York Law School).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form

UserNaomi Tadmor (Lancaster).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy

UserAndrea Caracausi (Padova).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Rational investment behaviour on manorial estates – Grain storage in the Rhineland area and Westphalia (18th & 19th century)

UserFriederike Scholten (MΓΌnster).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

UserHelen Berry (Newcastle).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Pauper inventories and the material lives of the English poor, c.1680-1834

UserJoseph Harley (Leicester).

HouseHistory Faculty Board Room.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790

UserJudy Stephenson (LSE).

HouseHistory Faculty Board Room.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries

UserDr Wouter Ryckbosch (University of Antwerp).

HouseHistory Faculty Board Room.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 17:00-19:00

'Pity the poor keelmen’ . Modelling seasonal work and annual income in early industrial Newcastle upon Tyne

UserAndrew Burn (Durham).

HouseLinnett Room, Robinson College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

β€˜Know all men whom this may concerne...’ . The Protestation returns and early modern social and economic history

UserJohn Walter (Essex).

HouseLinnett Room, Robinson College.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

The brewing industry in England revisited

UserD'Maris Coffman, Cambridge.

HouseUmney Lounge, Robinson College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

The brewing industry in England revisited

UserD’Maris Coffman (Cambridge).

HouseLinnett Room, Robinson College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834

UserSamantha Williams (Cambridge).

HouseLinnett Room, Robinson College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Maintaining oneself in early modern England

UserAlex Shepard (Glasgow).

HouseLinnett Room, Robinson College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

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