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2025-03-03 17:15: Structural Adjustment in Africa: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1981-1990 (Professor Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-17 17:15: Gold, Coins and Conflict: Currency Tensions and the Minting of the Anglo-Boer War, 1891-1899 (Dr Tinashe Nyamunda (University of Glasgow))

2025-05-19 17:15: Beyond almsgiving: The financial role of charitable institutions in early modern Portugal and its empire (Lisbeth Rodrigues (CITCEM & Faculty of Arts, University of Porto))

2026-01-26 17:00: ‘Farmers-Herders Conflicts, the Shadow Economy, and Nigeria's National Question’ (Professor Olutayo Adesina (University of Manchester/University of Ibadan))

2026-02-23 17:00: ‘The Evolution of State Capacity in Early Modern Empires: The Mughal South Asian case 1556-1707’ (Dr Safya Morshed (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid))

2026-03-09 17:00: Smith Goes to Sokoto: How Close was Precolonial Northern Nigeria to Modern Economic Growth?’ (Dr Tom Westland (Wageningen University))

2026-03-16 17:00: ‘The Guggenheims and the Collapse of the Chilean Nitrate Industry, 1925-33’ (Rory Miller (University of Liverpool))