Cambridge Cultural and Historical Geography (CCHG) - Department of Geography


2006-10-16 13:00: Household and plague in early modern Italy (Professor Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow))

2006-10-22 16:15: Geography, mutualism and welfare: the geography of British hospital contributory schemes before, during and after (?) the NHS (Speaker to be confirmed)

2006-10-25 16:15: I'm a Citizen of the World': Gender, Identity and the Politics of Scale among British Expatriates in China (Katie Willis, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2006-10-30 13:00: Widows, wills and economic assets in pre-industrial Britain (Richard Wall (University of Essex))

2006-11-08 16:15: Traces of Europe (Luiza Bialasiewicz, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2006-11-13 13:00: Cities, markets and the sea: Explaining the ups and downs of height in early nineteenth century England and Wales (Tim Leunig (London School of Economics))

2006-11-27 13:00: Gender inequality and change in stature in India during the Twentieth Century (Dr Aravindra Guntupalli (University of Tübingen))

2009-04-22 16:15: Rethinking the Imperial Difference in Global Times (Prof. David Slater, Department of Geography, Loughborough University)

2009-05-13 16:15: British Decolonization, 'Manpower Resource' Debates and the Politics of Scientific Governance in the Long Sixties. (Jennifer Gold, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2010-04-28 16:15: The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915 (Melanie Jones, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-12 16:15: Popping the question: how relevant was marriage in the European past? Evidence from the Gurk valley, Carinthia, 1868 to 1938 (Catherine Sumnall, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-26 16:15: Assemblage and critical urbanism (Dr Colin McFarlane, Department of Geography, Durham University)

2010-10-28 16:15: The dog fancy at war: breeds, breeding and Britishness, 1914-1918 (Dr. P MR Howell)

2010-11-24 16:15: The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915 (Ms Melanie Jones, PhD Candidate)

2011-02-02 16:15: Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and History (Dr. Ha joon Chang, Faculty of Economics)

2011-02-07 00:00: Contemporary perceptions of international migrants in England and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries (Jelle van Lottum (Cambridge Group))

2011-02-16 16:15: Personifying Colonial Governance: Life Geography of George Arthur and the Transition from Colonial Philanthropy to Development Discourse (Professor Alan Lester, Department of Geography, University of Sussex)

2011-02-21 12:45: English Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages (Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin))

2011-03-07 12:45: Does Gibrat’s Law hold for all times and all places?  A study of the growth of British cities prior to 1913 (Tim Leunig and Alex Klein (LSE))

2011-05-11 16:15: Taxidermy, Longing, and Beastly Allure (Dr Rachel Poliquin)

2011-05-16 12:45: Illusions of exactness: counting Scotland's population before 1801 (Professor Michael Anderson, University of Edinburgh)

2011-10-17 13:00: "Go --West-- North-East Young Man!" Male & Female Migration in 1881 (Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge))

2011-11-01 16:00: Towards a Genealogy of Care: The Treatment of Scotland’s Inebriates (David Beckingham (Sidney Sussex, University of Cambridge))

2011-11-07 13:00: Women and Children First: A Brief Look at Working Class Women and Children Commuters in London in the 1890s and 1900s (Simon Abernethy (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-22 16:15: Patents and the Challenge of ‘Sharewaring’ in Post-Genomic Bioscience or …The Strange Case of Betty Crocker and The Mouse (Bronwyn Parry (Queen Mary, University of London))

2011-11-28 13:00: The Revolt in Rural Cambridgeshire in 1381 (Mingjie Xu (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-30 16:15: 'Justifiable' Homicide? Responses to Wife-Murder in Nineteenth-Century India and Britain (Daniel Grey (University of Oxford))

2012-01-30 12:45: The prevalence of venereal diseases in 1913.  Who was right?  Christabel Pankhurst or the Royal Commission? (Dr. Simon Szreter)

2012-02-01 16:15: Rehearsing the state: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile ( Dr Fiona McConnell (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge))

2012-02-06 12:45: Studying the Stayers: occupation, kin links and stability (Lyn Boothman (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-13 12:45: ‘Industrialisation and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community, c. 1600-1684’ (Dr. Peter Kitson (Cambridge Group))

2012-02-22 16:15: Modern women on modern machines: cultural constructions of women motorists in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain ( Dr Peter Merriman, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University)

2012-02-27 12:45: Schools of Industry and Habits of Industriousness: Making childhood pay in the early Nineteenth Century (David Filtness (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-02 16:15: Reflections on countertopography (Professor Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology Program Graduate Center, The City University of New York)

2012-03-05 12:45: The Curious Case of Yorkshire Luddism (Richard Jones (University of Cambridge))

2012-03-07 16:15: The English Riots of 2012: Race, Rhetoric and Policies, but What Solutions? ( Dr Patricia Daley (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford))

2012-04-30 12:45: Real Wages and the Family: Adjusting Real Wages to Changing Demography in Pre-Modern England (Eric Schneider (Oxford University))

2012-05-14 13:00: Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh (Professor Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado))

2012-05-21 12:45: Aspects of Agrarian Change in South Staffordshire:  A Case Study of Kingswinford, 1650 to 1750 (Irene Haycock (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-28 12:45: Business and politics in late medieval Iberia: mercantile elites in the Kingdom of Aragon (1380-1430) (Sandra de la Torre Gonzalo (University of Zaragoza))

2012-06-25 12:00: (1)	‘New findings from the family reconstitution data.’  and (2)	‘Nothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.’ (’   Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Nina Boberg-Fazlic & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen))

2012-10-22 13:00: Linking Business and Philanthropy: The Social Concerns and Philanthropic Behaviours of Bombay's Mercantile Elite, 1845-1870 (Kate Boehme (Cambridge))

2012-10-29 13:00: The Irish Famine: Britain’s Biggest Economic Policy Failure? (Charles Read (Cambridge))

2012-11-19 13:00: Widows' Work: Some Evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books (Xuesheng You (Cambridge Group))

2013-01-28 12:45: Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system (Dr Amornrat Bunnag, Academic Officer, Centre of Doctrine and Strategic Development, Army Training Command, Bangkok.)

2013-02-25 13:00: Impoverishing development? Institution-building in Colonial Punjab (1849-1947) (Atiyab Sultan)

2013-03-04 12:45: Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books (Mr Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-11 12:45: Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster (Prof. Jeremy Boulton, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Newcastle)

2013-05-06 12:45: State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data (Dr Hiroaki Muppy Matsuura, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford)

2013-05-13 12:45: Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature (Professor Tim Guinnane, Department of Economics, Yale University)

2013-05-20 12:45: The volcano Laki in 1783: a serial killer? A French-English comparison (Dr Emmanuel Garnier, University of Caen)

2013-06-10 12:45: Real wages and the household: Quantifying the economy of makeshifts of the poor in 18th-century England (Eric Schneider, Department of Economics, University of Oxford)

2013-06-17 13:00: The Male Occupational Structure of Norwich, circa 1720-1841: Evidence from Quarter Session and Other Records (Keith Sugden, Cambridge)

2013-10-14 13:00: Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914 (Anne Hanley (Cambridge))

2013-10-21 13:00: 'Kin-servant' in 1881 British Census Enumerators' Books: Actual Work or Random Enumeration (Xuesheng You (Cambridge))

2013-10-24 17:00: Call the midwife: death in childbirth in historical perspective (Dr Alice Reid (Cambridge))

2013-10-28 13:00: Female employment in the nineteenth century censuses: Methods, pitfalls, and prostitutes (Ellen Potter (Cambridge))

2013-11-04 13:00: 17th & 18th century land taxes in England; 'hardly changed since the middle ages' or cutting edge technology. A Kent case study (Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge))

2013-11-11 13:00: Measuring Immigrant Crime in London: The Irish 1801-1820 (Adam Crymble (Cambridge))

2013-11-18 13:00: The multiplicitous networks of the East India Company, 1599-1603 (Edmond Smith (Cambridge))

2013-11-25 13:00: Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1928-31 (Simon Abernethy (Cambridge))

2013-12-02 13:00: Office holding, social status and stability in a small town, 1661-1861 (Lyn Boothman (Cambridge))

2014-01-20 13:00: Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825  (Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton))

2014-01-27 13:00: Probate records as a source of occupational information (Sebastian Keibek (Cambridge))

2014-02-03 13:00: The transformation of the costs of children and its impact on reproductive behaviour: a comparative analysis of the second demographic transition in Switzerland (Caroline Rusterholtz (University of Fribourg))

2014-02-06 17:00: Maintaining oneself in early modern England (Alex Shepard (Glasgow))

2014-02-10 13:00: The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt (Dr Mohamed Saleh (University of Toulouse))

2014-02-13 13:00: Colonial Subjection:  Emergent Forms of Governmentality in Early Modern Ireland. (Dr John Morrissey (National University of Ireland, Galway))

2014-02-17 13:00: "The Dust Was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl (Vellore Arti (Oxford))

2014-02-20 13:00: Finding a Forever Home?  The Battersea Dogs Home and the Victorian Domestication of the Dog (Dr Philip Howell (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-20 17:00: The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834 (Samantha Williams (Cambridge))

2014-02-24 13:00: What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852 (Professor Janet McCalman and Dr Rebecca Kippen (University of Melbourne))

2014-03-03 13:00: Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England (Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge))

2014-03-06 13:00: “The ignorance of the uneducated”:  Cold War Philanthropy and the Institute of International Education (Mr Chay Brooks (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-06 17:00: The brewing industry in England revisited (D’Maris Coffman (Cambridge))

2014-03-10 13:00: What can autobiographies tell us about women's time-use in 19th century England? (Sophie McGeevor (Cambridge))

2014-03-13 17:00: The brewing industry in England revisited (D'Maris Coffman, Cambridge)

2014-04-28 13:00: The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834 (Dr Samantha Williams (Cambridge))

2014-05-01 17:00: ‘Know all men whom this may concerne...’. The Protestation returns and early modern social and economic history (John Walter (Essex))

2014-05-05 13:00: Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion?  (Professor M. Erdem Kabadayi (Istanbul Bilgi University))

2014-05-08 13:00: The pledge and the public sphere:  Father Mathew and the politics of temperance (Dr David Beckingham, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-12 13:00: The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain (Dr Antonio Cámara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona))

2014-05-14 17:00: A war over water: the contestation of river environments in medieval and early modern England (John Langdon)

2014-05-15 17:00: 'Pity the poor keelmen’. Modelling seasonal work and annual income in early industrial Newcastle upon Tyne (Andrew Burn (Durham))

2014-05-19 13:00: French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation? (Dr Alexis Litvine (Cambridge))

2014-05-21 17:00: ‘To dig and to delve and to drive away hunger’: peasants and the intensification of English agriculture, 1000-1300 (Alex Sapoznik)

2014-05-22 17:00: Between comparison and singularity: architecture, Auroville and the aesthetic politics of urban Utopianism (Dr Tariq Jazeel, Department of Geography, University College London)

2014-06-02 13:00: Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective (Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja (Cambridge))

2014-06-04 17:00: Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381 (Mingjie Xu)

2014-06-09 13:00: Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources (Stefan Öberg (University of Gothenburg))

2014-10-09 17:00: How much venereal disease was there in England's modern demographic history? (Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge))

2014-10-13 12:30: Carrying Trade (Carolyn Dougherty (York))

2014-10-20 12:30: The impact of mechanization upon female and male employment in the English textile industry, circa 1780-1851 (Keith Sugden (Cambridge))

2014-10-27 12:30: Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent (Imogen Wedd (Cambridge))

2014-11-03 12:30: Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381 (Mingjie Xu (Cambridge))

2014-11-06 13:00: The turbulent tale of Richard Burton, an armchair, and the Hakluyt Society:  a story of nineteenth-century geography and the materialities of exploration (Natalie Cox, University of Warwick)

2014-11-06 17:00: Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750 (Professor Paul Warde (East Anglia))

2014-11-17 12:30: Ideal vs Reality? The Ideal of the Breadwinner-Homemaker Household in Industrializing Regions in the Netherlands, ca. 1890 (Corinne Boter (Wageningen))

2014-11-20 13:00: Can the past help us to understand the present?  A life-course perspective on the predictors and consequences of adolescent education and life outcomes in rural India (Akanksha Marphatia, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-20 17:00: The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world (Professor David Reher (Complutense University, Madrid))

2014-11-24 12:30: The Fiscal-Military State and the Land Tax - Observations from Kent and London (Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge))

2014-11-27 13:00: Conversations with Caroline:  archival spaces of the Victorian asylum (Caroline Bressey, University College London)

2014-11-27 17:00: What was an organic economy? (Professor Sir E.A. Wrigley (Cambridge))

2014-12-01 12:30: The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England (Hillary Taylor (Yale))

2014-12-04 17:00: Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland (Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden))

2015-01-19 13:00: Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain (Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona))

2015-01-22 17:00: Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries (Dr Wouter Ryckbosch (University of Antwerp))

2015-01-26 12:30: The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process (Marta Musso (Cambridge))

2015-01-28 17:00: Justifying inequality: peasants in medieval ideology (Steve Rigby)

2015-02-02 13:00: The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900 (Hannaliis Jaadla (Tallinn University))

2015-02-05 17:00: Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790 (Judy Stephenson (LSE))

2015-02-09 13:00: 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 (Dr Paul Puschmann (University of Leuven))

2015-02-11 17:00: Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors (Susan Kilby)

2015-02-19 13:00: British New Towns, decolonisation, and the global geographies of urban expertise (Ruth Craggs (King’s College London))

2015-02-19 17:00: Pauper inventories and the material lives of the English poor, c.1680-1834 (Joseph Harley (Leicester))

2015-02-23 13:00: The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression (Dr Miguel Morin (Cambridge))

2015-02-25 17:00: Medieval textiles and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a handmaiden’s yarn (Eleanor Standley)

2015-02-26 13:00: The invention of wetlands:  histories of conservation and contestation from Australia (Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University))

2015-03-02 12:30: MPhil Presentations (Ellen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge))

2015-03-05 13:00: Geography’s final imperial frontier? On the influence of Geography on the humanities' 'spatial turn' (Carl Griffin (University of Sussex))

2015-03-09 12:30: MPhil Presentations (Alexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge))

2015-04-23 17:00: Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings (Helen Berry (Newcastle))

2015-04-27 13:00: Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain (Dr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge))

2015-05-11 12:30: Railways and population: spatial interactions (Eduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain))

2015-05-13 17:00: Peasant farmers and their workers in medieval England (Jean Birrell and Ros Faith)

2015-05-14 13:00: The determinants of historic migration streams:  The importance of cultural barriers (Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-14 17:00: Rational investment behaviour on manorial estates – Grain storage in the Rhineland area and Westphalia (18th & 19th century)  (Friederike Scholten (Münster))

2015-05-18 13:00: The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919 (Dr Eric Schneider (University of Sussex))

2015-05-27 17:00: Consumption and trade in East Anglian market towns and their hinterlands in the late middle ages (Jo Sear)

2015-05-28 13:00: Performance and aesthetics in geography: a cultural politics beyond representation? (Lizzie Richardson (University of Cambridge))

2015-06-01 13:00: Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name? (Dr Isabelle Devos (Ghent University))

2015-07-13 12:10: Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History (Professor Deng Hui, Peking University )

2015-10-12 12:30: Land and credit in the asset allocations of the Jews in late 14th-century Zaragoza (Mike Schraer (Cambridge))

2015-10-19 12:30: Adapting to workplace technological change over the long run: Evidence from US longitudinal data (Miguel Morin (Cambridge))

2015-10-22 17:00: The Bank of England and the Genesis of Modern Management (Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire))

2015-10-26 12:30: Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England (Toby Salisbury (Cambridge))

2015-10-29 17:00: Was Domar Right? The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia (Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge))

2015-11-02 12:30: Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900 (Partha Shil (Cambridge))

2015-11-05 13:00: The spatial politics of aspiration (Sam Strong, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-05 17:00: Medieval English Peasants and Culture (Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth))

2015-11-09 12:30: A comparative analysis of payday lending in America and Britain, 1900-1930s (Craig McMahon (Cambridge))

2015-11-12 13:00: An urban politics of subversive creativity: Architecture, objects and the urban terrain (Oli Mould, Royal Holloway)

2015-11-12 17:30: British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different? (Michael Anderson (Edinburgh))

2015-11-16 12:30: Land market and the long 12th century transformation in Foligno county (Nikita Dmtriev (Pantheon-Sorbonne))

2015-11-19 17:00: Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden (Maria Agren (Uppsala))

2015-11-23 12:30: The local and transnational organisation of the nascent Newfoundland dry cod trade, 1550-1650 (Josh Ivinson (Cambridge))

2015-11-26 13:00: Untangling Black Internationalisms: Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence and the Promise of Africa, c. 1953 (Jake Hodder, University of Nottingham)

2015-11-26 17:00: Human Security, Food and International Order, 1918-1939 (Patricia Clavin (Oxford))

2015-11-30 12:30: What was linen? Flax and hemp at home and work in 18th-century England (Alice Dolan (Institute of Historical Research))

2015-12-03 17:00: Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene (Gareth Austin (Geneva/Cambridge))

2016-01-14 17:00: Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy (Andrea Caracausi (Padova))

2016-01-18 12:30: Beveridge calling: The social insurance and allied services and the Mediterranean welfare model, 1942-1950s (Paco Ruzzante (University of Cambridge))

2016-01-25 12:30: The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1700-1850 (Sebastian Keibek (University of Cambridge))

2016-01-27 17:00: A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland (Susan Oosthuizen (Cambridge))

2016-02-01 13:00: Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909) (Dr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University))

2016-02-08 13:00: Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe (Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology))

2016-02-10 17:00: The shock to reinvigorate medieval economic history? (Daniel Curtis (Utrecht))

2016-02-11 17:00: The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form (Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster))

2016-02-15 13:00: A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century (Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge))

2016-02-22 12:30: M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy (Daniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-23 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (1) (Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford))

2016-02-24 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (2) (Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford))

2016-02-25 13:00: NATO Interoperability and Geopolitical Assemblages (Jason Dittmer, University College London)

2016-02-29 12:30: M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History (Leslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-01 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (3) (Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford))

2016-03-02 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (4) (Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford))

2016-03-07 13:00: Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930 (Professor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research))

2016-03-09 17:00: Patterns of migration in late-medieval England (Mark Bailey (UEA))

2016-03-10 13:00: Behaving badly? Perspectives on health inequalities in two socially contrasting neighbourhoods in North East England (Kayleigh Garthwaite, Department of Geography, Durham University)

2016-03-10 17:00: Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England (Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School))

2016-04-25 13:00: Anglo-American productivity differentials once again (Mark Thomas (University of Virginia))

2016-04-28 17:00: Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century) (Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen))

2016-05-09 13:00: Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition (Joseph Molitoris (University of Copenhagen))

2016-05-11 17:00: Trust and Inequality in Late Medieval England (Ian Forrest (Oxford))

2016-05-12 17:00: Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880 (Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci))

2016-05-16 13:00: Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia (Pavla Jirkova (CERGE-EI, Prague))

2016-05-23 13:00: White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes (Frederik Pedersen (University of Aberdeen))

2016-05-25 17:00: The changing fortunes of Poole, Lyme and Melcombe: wool, cloth, tax, trade and the fifteenth century Dorset economy (Mark Forrest (Dorset History Centre))

2016-06-06 13:00: Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression (Cristiano Ristuccia (Cambridge))

2016-10-06 17:00: 'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867 (Professor Gareth Stedman Jones, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, London)

2016-10-10 12:30: Patterns of manorial office holding at late medieval and early modern Little Downham, 1300-1600 (Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-13 17:00: Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection (Professor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast)

2016-10-17 12:30: Does sterilised central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rate? The case of the British Exchange Equalisation Account, 1952-1972 (Alain Naef (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-20 13:00: Awkward biopolitics: osprey conservation, pesticides and biosecurity on Speyside, 1963-1968 (Ben Garlick, University of Edinburgh)

2016-10-20 17:00: The economics of the ‘Second Slavery’ in the Jihad states of West Africa (Professor Paul Lovejoy, York University, Ontario)

2016-10-24 12:30: Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899 (Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-27 13:00: Rage against the Machine: Individuals in the British Empire (Professor Anna Clark, University of Minnesota)

2016-10-27 17:00: Labouring in early modern London (Dr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford)

2016-10-31 12:30: Eating and drinking as a medieval peasant. Innovations in table manners in late medieval rural Valencia (Luis Almenar (University of Valencia))

2016-11-03 17:00: The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales (Professor Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde)

2016-11-07 12:30: Welfare and industrial conflict in the Italian automobile industry, 1968-1975 (Niccolò Serri (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-10 17:00: The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history (Professor Pat Hudson and Dr Keith Tribe)

2016-11-14 12:30: Family structure and the admission of children to the workhouse in post-famine Ireland (Simon Gallagher (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-17 13:00: Mapping grief: a conceptual framework for understanding the diverse spatialities of death, mourning and remembrance (Dr Avril Maddrell, UWE Bristol)

2016-11-17 17:00: Inequality and social mobility in medieval England (Professor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester)

2016-11-21 12:30: Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913 (Walter Jansson (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-24 17:00: The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850 (Sebastian Keibek, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-28 12:30: Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden (Kathryn Gary (Lund University))

2016-12-01 17:00: Industrialisation, inter-sectoral linkage and occupational structure: Britain, Germany and Japan, c.1850-1935 (Professor Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi, Japan))

2017-01-16 13:00: tbc (Dr Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London)

2017-01-19 17:00: Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice (James Shaw (University of Sheffield))

2017-01-23 13:00: Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs (Diego Carnevale (Birkbeck))

2017-01-25 17:00: The Suffolk clothier in the age of Henry VII (Nicholas Amor)

2017-01-30 12:30: The Treaty of Westminster: a turning point for the Anglo Iberian trade in the late 15th century? (Ana Avino-de-Pablo (Ghent))

2017-02-02 17:00: Divergences or varieties in European economic development? (Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg))

2017-02-06 13:00: Drainage and water supply in 18th century London (Carry van Lieshout (Cambridge))

2017-02-08 16:30: Austerity Nostalgia (Owen Hatherley, guest speaker)

2017-02-08 17:00: Travelling to town: medieval peasants in the urban marketplace (James Davis)

2017-02-13 12:30: Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain (Francisco Beltrán Tapia (Cambridge))

2017-02-14 14:00: Ageing Population and Elderly Care in Sri Lanka (Professor K.A.P. Siddhisena (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka))

2017-02-16 13:00: Mixed race children of black GIs and British women born in WWII (Professor Lucy Bland, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

2017-02-16 17:00: Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism (Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin))

2017-02-20 13:00: Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911 (James Perry (Lancaster))

2017-02-22 17:00:  The role of pragmatic literacy in estate management (Harmony Dewez)

2017-02-27 12:30: MPhil Presentations Part I (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-02 17:00: Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire (John Morgan (University of Manchester))

2017-03-06 12:30: MPhil Presentations Part II (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-08 14:00: CCHG: Imagining infrastructures workshop (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-10 10:00: CCHG series: Political Geology Workshop (Andrew Barry (UCL), Nigel Clark (Lancaster))

2017-03-16 13:00: Making Imperial Citizens:  Barnardo’s and the Preparation and Care of Child Emigrants, 1882-1905 (Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London)

2017-04-27 17:00: Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access (Margaret Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Cambridge))

2017-05-04 17:00: The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate Change and Globalisation (Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin))

2017-05-08 13:00: 150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland (Frank Geary and Tom Stark)

2017-05-10 17:00: Revisiting Vinogradoff’s interpretation of Bracton: why was a servus not a slave? (Judith Spicksley (University of York))

2017-05-15 13:00: Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon (James Boyd (Cambridge))

2017-05-18 17:00: Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland (Susan Flavin (Anglia University))

2017-05-22 13:00:  The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century (Piotr Koryś (University of Warsaw))

2017-05-24 17:00: The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy (Marta Gravela (University of Turin))

2017-10-05 17:00: Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since 1695 (Dr Anthony Hotson, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College)

2017-10-12 17:00: The Great European Famine of 1315-7 revisited: nature, institutions and demography (Dr Phil Slavin, University of Kent)

2017-10-23 12:30: The patriarchal republic: local officeholding in early modern England (Jonah Miller (King's College London))

2017-10-26 17:00: Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death (Dr Lluís To Figueras, Universitat de Girona)

2017-10-30 12:30: The Central Electricity Board - Accidental Conservationists? (Kayt Button (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-02 17:00: The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings (Professor Jane Whittle, University of Exeter)

2017-11-06 12:30: Crime, Punishment, and Body Snatching: Contested Memories of the 1797 Naval Mutinies (Callum Easton (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-09 17:00: The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics (Ian Kumekawa, Centre for History and Economics)

2017-11-13 12:30: Between Economic Pragmatism and the 'Civilising Mission': Making a Case for the Domestic Electrification of Southern Nigeria, 1930 to 1960 (Damilola A. Adebayo (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-16 13:00: Decolonisation and disciplinary histories, 1948-1990 (Hannah Neate, Manchester Metropolitan University)

2017-11-16 17:00: The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain (Dr Siân Pooley, University of Oxford)

2017-11-20 12:30: Imperial Germany, Pax Britannica, and the Political Economy of the Gold Standard, 1871-1914 (Sabine Schneider (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-23 17:00: Using 'big data' to explore household and family structures in England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Professor Kevin Schürer, University of Leicester)

2017-11-27 12:30: Building a Demographic Profile of Foreign Seamen in the British Navy, 1793-1815 (Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-30 13:00: The slow death of Victorian liberal governmentality (Philip Howell, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-30 17:00: Why Malthus wasn’t African. Reviewing explanations and implications of low population densities in pre-1900 Sub-Saharan Africa (Professor Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University & Research)

2018-01-18 17:00: Whom to trust to moralise the market (Prof. Laurence Fontaine)

2018-01-23 16:00: Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20 (Frances Richardson (University of Oxford))

2018-01-24 17:00: The exceptional case of the late medieval English economy: comparing price, wage and rent trends to Scotland and the Southern Low Countries (Katie Ball (Oxford))

2018-02-01 17:00: Elite women and the agricultural landscape  (Dr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull)

2018-02-06 16:00: The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach (Eli Nomes (University of Leuven))

2018-02-07 17:00: Architecture and the English economy, 1200-1500: a new history of the parish church over the longue durée (Gabriel Byng (Cambridge))

2018-02-15 17:00: Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire (Dr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford)

2018-02-21 17:00: Coinage in the later medieval countryside: single-finds and the evidence from Rendlesham, Suffolk (Richard Kelleher (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge))

2018-04-26 17:00: ‘Women’, ‘Lads’ and ‘Copers’: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765 (Matthew Pawelski, University of Lancaster)

2018-05-03 17:00: Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660 (Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge)

2018-05-08 17:00: Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland (Alan Fernihough (Queen's University Belfast))

2018-05-09 17:00: Fortunes of urban fullers in fourteenth-century England (Milan Pajic (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-10 17:00: The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workers’ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830 (Kathryn Gary, University of Lund)

2018-05-15 16:00: Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines (Jean-Pascal Bassino (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon; Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies))

2018-05-22 16:00: New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône, South of France) (Isabelle Séguy (French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) )

2018-05-23 17:00: Lord, state and community elites in the late medieval and early modern village: the evidence of manorial officeholding (Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-24 17:00: Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England (Tawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University)

2018-06-05 16:00: Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared (Richard Smith (University of Cambridge))

2018-06-19 16:00: 160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions (Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-04 17:00: Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900 (Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London))

2018-10-08 12:30: Patterns of female employment in the Pays de Caux and the Perche, 1792-1901 (Auriane Terki-Mignot (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-11 17:00: Women in banking: the introduction of the ‘Personal Banker’ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s (Dr Lucy Newton (University of Reading))

2018-10-15 12:30: The Spinelli Family: A mid-sized Florentine firm’s response to the opening of the Americas and Cape Route trade, 1450-1520 (Eleanor Russell (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-18 17:00: 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 (Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University))

2018-10-22 12:30: Industrial development paths from an evolutionary perspective: the Chinese case, 1998-2013 (Yiwen Qiu (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-25 17:00: Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution (Professor Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics))

2018-10-29 12:30: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in China and Singapore, 1919-1937 (Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-05 12:30: European integration and immigration policy, French and British experiences, 1976-1992 (Yasmin Shearmur (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-12 12:30: Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century (Michalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece))

2018-11-15 17:00: Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570 (Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam))

2018-11-19 12:30: Years of Turbulence, Years of Hope: Central African Copperbelt and the Industrial Development in Congo-Léopoldville and Zambia, from the Political Independence to the Economic Nationalization   (Mostafa Abdelaal (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-22 17:00: Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography (Dr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure))

2018-11-26 12:30: The diffusion of mechanised technologies in the West Riding of Yorkshire textile industry c.1780­‐1911 and its impact on employment and wages (Alex Tertzakian (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-29 17:00: Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny (Professor John Styles (University of Hertfordshire))

2019-01-21 12:30: The occupational structure of Chongqing in the Upper Yangzi Valley, China, 19th and 20th centuries (Ying Dai (University of Cambridge))

2019-01-23 17:00: The medieval clothier (John Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York))

2019-01-28 12:30: The spatial distribution of Italy's population and the emergence of Zipf's Law, 1861-1991  (Andrea Ramazzotti, London School of Economics)

2019-01-31 17:00: Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution (Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh))

2019-02-04 12:30: The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland  (Christopher Whittel, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-06 17:00: Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London (Charlotte Berry (Goldsmiths’ Company))

2019-02-11 12:30: Consumption Change in the Early and Mid-Qing: A Case Study of the Lower Yangze Delta  (Yitong Qiu, London School of Economics)

2019-02-13 13:15: The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today (Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin))

2019-02-18 12:30: Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618 (Felix Schaff, London School of Economics)

2019-02-20 13:15: 'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition (Alice Reid (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-20 17:00: The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village (Miriam Müller (University of Birmingham))

2019-02-21 17:00: European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries (Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm))

2019-02-25 12:30: The Origins of ‘Penitents’: The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Inmates in an English Anglican Magdalen Home, 1848-1914  (Moritz Kaiser, University of Aberdeen)

2019-02-27 13:15: Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815 (Sir Roderick Floud)

2019-03-04 12:30: MPhil Presentations (Eliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-06 13:15: The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses (Bob Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno (University of Cambridge))

2019-03-11 12:30: MPhil Presentations (Mustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge)

2019-04-25 17:00: Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons (Richard Bell, Oxford University)

2019-05-08 13:15: The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland (Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels))

2019-05-09 17:00: Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland (Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht)

2019-05-15 13:15: Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790) (Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan))

2019-05-16 17:00: The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands  (Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam))

2019-05-22 13:15: A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911 (Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge))

2019-06-12 13:15: Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office (David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL))

2019-10-10 17:00: Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics (Simon Szreter)

2019-10-17 17:00: The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825 (Prof. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin)

2019-10-24 17:00: The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia (Prof. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology)

2019-10-31 17:00: The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence (Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-07 17:00: Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work (Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht)

2019-11-14 17:00: Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019) (Prof. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia))

2019-11-21 17:00: Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy (Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London)

2019-11-28 17:00: CANCELLED: The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 ‘millionaire’ population (Prof. Peter Scott, Reading)

2019-12-05 17:00: The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern (Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge)

2020-01-15 13:15: The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000) (Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid))

2020-01-23 17:00: The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625 (Samantha Williams (Cambridge))

2020-01-29 13:15: How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870 (Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University))

2020-02-05 13:15: Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900 (Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark))

2020-02-19 13:15: Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973 (Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh))

2020-02-20 17:00: CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s (Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics))

2020-04-29 13:00: When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain (Yoko Morita and Chiaki Yamamoto)

2020-10-08 17:00: The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400 (Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia))

2020-10-15 17:00: Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor (Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School))

2020-10-19 12:30: A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75 (Cameron Coventry (Federation University))

2020-10-22 17:00: Writing the history of education as social and economic history (Peter Mandler (Cambridge))

2020-10-29 17:00: Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003 (Harold James (Princeton))

2020-11-02 12:30: Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London (Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol))

2020-11-05 17:00: Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how (Joe Day (Bristol))

2020-11-12 17:00: The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting (David Edgerton (King’s College, London))

2020-11-16 12:30: Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860 (Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford))

2020-11-19 17:00: Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850 (Alexis Litvine (Cambridge))

2020-11-26 17:00: Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810 (Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden))

2020-11-30 12:30: Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850 (Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge))

2020-12-03 17:00: Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century (David Todd (King’s College, London))

2021-02-24 13:00: Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010 (Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark))

2021-03-10 10:00: Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades (Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University))

2021-04-28 13:00: The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915 (Eric Schneider (LSE))

2021-05-12 13:00: Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution (Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine))

2021-05-19 13:00: The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey (Zijing Shen (Cambridge))

2021-05-26 13:00: Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach (Xuesheng You (Swansea))

2021-06-09 13:00: Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries (Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona))

2021-06-16 13:00: Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England (Tom Heritage (Southampton))

2021-10-14 17:15: Capitalism – a concept too big to fail? (Craig Muldrew, Cambridge)

2021-10-21 17:15: Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror  (Benedetta Rossi, University College London)

2021-10-28 17:15: Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform (Ian Cawood, University of Stirling)

2021-11-04 17:15: Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales (Xuesheng You, University of Swansea)

2021-11-11 17:15: Tropical development (Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics)

2021-11-18 17:15: Making money in the early Middle Ages (Rory Naismith, Cambridge)

2021-11-25 17:15: The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain (Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge)

2021-12-02 17:15: Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition (David Fox)

2022-02-16 13:15: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries (Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-23 13:15: Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949 (Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton))

2022-03-09 13:15: Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London (Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge))

2022-04-28 17:00: Barbary Newton: An Absentee Slave-Owner in Late Seventeenth-Century England (Misha Ewen (Historic Royal Palaces))

2022-05-05 17:00: Real wages and wages in reality: Lessons from a Swedish royal stud farm (Jonas Lindström (Uppsala universitet))

2022-05-12 17:00: Family conflict, legal strategies, and women’s litigation in early modern Scotland (Rebecca Mason (Glasgow University))

2022-05-19 17:00: The paradox of being poor, yet well fed and warm. Material welfare levels in the 17th and 18th century Southern Low Countries (Maïka de Keyzer (KU Leuven))

2022-05-26 17:00: Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue (Danielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam))

2022-06-02 17:00: The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England (Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck))

2022-10-06 17:15: A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations (Jane Whittle (Exeter))

2022-10-13 17:15: The Necessity of Bubbles (William H. Janeway (Cambridge))

2022-10-20 17:15: Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation (Catia Antunes (Leiden))

2022-10-25 13:00: Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950 (Arvand Mirsafian, Uppsala University)

2022-10-27 17:15: A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860 (Jane Humphries (London School of Economics))

2022-11-03 17:15: German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892 (Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics))

2022-11-10 17:15: Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1921 (A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge))

2022-11-17 17:15: The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness (Samantha Williams (Cambridge))

2022-11-24 17:15: CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office (David Green (Kings College London))

2022-12-01 17:15: The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England  (James Davis (Queens University Belfast))

2023-01-09 17:15: Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600 (Chris Briggs, Cambridge)

2023-01-19 17:00: Paternalism and the politics of “toll corn” in early modern England (Hillary Taylor (Cambridge))

2023-01-25 13:15: Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office (Professor David Green (King's College London))

2023-02-01 13:15: POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy (Dr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan))

2023-02-02 17:00: Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620 (Li Jiang (Exeter))

2023-02-08 13:15: Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries (Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada))

2023-02-16 17:00: Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850 (Eugene Costello (UC Cork & Stockholm University))

2023-02-22 13:15: The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark (Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen))

2023-03-08 13:15: Industrialization in the Habsburg Empire: A spatial analysis (Dr Stefan Nikolic (Universita Bocconi, Milan))

2023-03-09 17:00: Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic (Marjoleine Kars (MIT))

2023-03-13 12:30: Ottoman Women in Cartoons (1870-1911) (Elif Yumru (Cambridge))

2023-03-15 13:15: CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920 (Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp))

2023-03-15 17:00: CANCELLED: ‘Rendered much cheaper, than our work-people can make’; Women’s employment in textile manufacturing and English political economy, 1688-1722 (Hugo Bromley (Cambridge))

2023-04-26 13:15: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy​ (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-04-27 17:00: Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime (Julie Hardwick (UT Austin))

2023-05-03 13:15: The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects (Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway))

2023-05-04 17:00: Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records (Tim Stretton (Saint Mary’s University, Canada))

2023-05-10 13:15: Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic (Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University))

2023-05-11 17:00: The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care  in Early Modern England (Charmian Mansell (Cambridge))

2023-05-17 13:15: The occupational structure of the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley: institutions, gender, and experiences  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-05-25 17:00: Monetary policies and practices:  money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe (Christopher Pihl (Uppsala))

2023-05-31 13:15: Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period (Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research))

2023-06-01 17:00: Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic (Marjoleine Kars (MIT))

2023-06-14 13:15: Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913 (Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University))

2023-10-05 17:15: Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers (Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge)

2023-10-12 17:15: A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR (Maria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne))

2023-10-16 13:00: The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion (Heqi Cai (LSE))

2023-10-16 13:30: Railroad Expansion, Local Shocks and Individual Opportunities: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America (Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne))

2023-10-19 17:15: How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire (Leigh Gardner, LSE.)

2023-10-26 17:15: Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money (Jordan Claridge, LSE)

2023-10-30 13:00: Factory families: textile work and women’s life courses in late nineteenth-century Derbyshire (Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge))

2023-11-02 17:15: New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914 (Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne))

2023-11-09 17:15: Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community (Paul Warde, Cambridge)

2023-11-13 13:00: Wine Production and Exchange in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries: A Micro-Economic Analysis’ (Thomas Laver (Cambridge))

2023-11-16 17:15:  Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914 (Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa))

2023-11-23 17:15: The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality  and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)  (Bruno Blonde (Antwerp))

2023-11-27 13:00: The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development (Magnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies))

2023-11-27 13:00: Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor. Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller (1890-1914) (Xavier Jou (University of Barcelona))

2023-11-30 17:15: The economic government of the world 1933-2023 (Martin Daunton (Cambridge))

2024-01-25 17:00: A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761 (Alexander Wakelam, Cambridge)

2024-01-29 13:00: Deconstructing Development Realities in India (Lovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi))

2024-01-31 13:15: Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden (Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University))

2024-02-07 13:15: Demographic Losses in Poland during World War II 1939–1945. Verification of Mass Sources and the Method of Estimation during Border Changes (Konrad Wnęk (Jagiellonian University))

2024-02-08 17:00: '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 (Amy Erickson, Cambridge)

2024-02-12 13:00: 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. (Sandra Ujpetery)

2024-02-14 13:15: Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand Spinning (Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University))

2024-02-21 13:15: Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911 (Hillary Vipond (LSE))

2024-02-22 17:00: Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society (Perry Gauci, Oxford)

2024-02-26 13:00: Income Inequality around the Year Zero: Quantitative Insights from Chinese Literary Sources (Michele Bolla (Cambridge))

2024-02-28 13:15: How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain (Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna))

2024-03-06 13:15: Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia (Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College))

2024-03-07 17:00: Faith and Finance in the Early Modern World: The capital market of Manila and the financing of the Pacific Trade, 1668-1820 (Juan Rivas Moreno, London School of Economics)

2024-03-11 13:00: Sex and the City Centre: Prostitution, Urban Planning, and Sociological Research in 1960s Lebanon (Jan Altaner (Cambridge))

2024-04-24 13:15: The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison (Erik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin))

2024-04-25 17:00: 'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?) (Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich)

2024-05-01 13:15: Fertility responses to short-term economic stress: Price volatility and wealth shocks in a pre-transitional settler colony   (Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University))

2024-05-02 17:00: The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy (Natashia Glaisyer, University of York)

2024-05-08 13:15: Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911 (Michael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz))

2024-05-09 17:00: Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean (Nuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-15 13:15: Researching the possible effects of the New Poor Law of 1834 on the health of the population of England and Wales   (Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) and Gabriel Mesevage (King’s College, London)  )

2024-05-16 17:00: Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britain’s economic development, 1660-1720 (Edmond Smith, University of Manchester)

2024-05-22 13:15: Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate (Stephen Broadberry (Oxford University), co-authored with Hanhui Guan (Peking University))

2024-05-23 17:00: The intoxicant economy in early modern England (Phil Withington, University of Sheffield)

2024-05-29 13:15: Plague strikes back: The Pestis Secunda of 1361–62 and its demographic consequences in England and Wales   (Phil Slavin (University of Stirling)  )

2024-06-05 13:15: From endemicity to demise - Malaria in Denmark ca. 1800-1900 (Mathias Ingholt (University of Cambridge))

2024-06-19 13:00: Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe (Radka Šustrová, University of Vienna)

2024-10-10 17:15: Royal Justice, Society and Economy in Medieval England: Evidence from Derbyshire (Chris Briggs (Cambridge))

2024-10-17 17:15: Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern,  1500-1900 (Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford))

2024-10-24 17:15: Industrialisation, Economic Development, the Industrial Revolution and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 – 1911 (with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011) (Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge))

2024-10-31 17:15: German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s (Brian Varian (Newcastle))

2024-11-07 17:15: Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800 (Regina Grafe (Cambridge))

2024-11-14 17:15: Sixty Eears after Fogel’s Social Savings: Measuring the Growth Impact of Railways in the Periphery (Alfonso Herranz Loncan (University of Barcelona))

2024-11-19 13:00: Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective (Maria Agren, University of Uppsala)

2024-11-21 17:15: The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast (Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford))

2024-12-05 17:15: Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences Between the Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World (Emanuele Felice (IULM))

2025-01-21 13:00: Reasons to rebel: Revisiting the 1980s (Sheila Rowbotham)

2025-02-04 13:00: Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain (Laura Schwarz, University of Warwick)

2025-02-05 16:00: People, places, and peers - fertility trajectories in Derbyshire, 1881-1911.​  ​ (Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-12 13:15: New Perspectives on the Economic History of War (Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki)

2025-02-12 17:00: "There was no auditor who could trip him up": Demesne managers and the auditing process in 14th-century England and Wales (Jerome Gasson (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-13 17:00: What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period? (Liam Brunt (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol))

2025-02-18 16:00: Reconsidering the Southern European Household: Wealth, Credit and Servanthood in Central Sicily, 1584-1623 (Victor Melfa (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-19 16:00: Progress in the pipeline: cholera, politics and the waterworks revolution in Germany.​ (Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University)​)

2025-02-25 16:00: Heart of the Empire: Constructing the London Docklands, 1799-1886 (Madeleine Miller (University of Cambridge))

2025-02-25 16:30: Lone Rangers? How Did Trade Develop in Eastern Europe During the Cold War? (Marko Cokic (LSE))

2025-02-26 13:15: Railway closures in France, 1900-1940 (Alexis Litvine (University of Cambridge), co-authored with Matteo Mazzamurro and Alban de Gmeline)

2025-02-27 17:00: Property, debt, and women’s economic agency in 18th-century Austria (Matthias Donabaum (University of Vienna))

2025-03-04 16:00: How Sick Were the Three Sick Men? Comparing Manufacturing Productivities in the Ottoman, Russian, and Qing Empires in World War I’s Eve (Guillem Blasco-Piles (University of Barcelona))

2025-03-04 16:30: Economic Growth and Productivity of China, 1840-2010 (Menggelisha (Oxford))

2025-03-05 16:00: Transport and the transmission of plague across settlements in early modern England.​ (Charlie Udale and Eric Schneider (LSE)​)

2025-03-05 17:00: Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550 (Alex Sapoznik (King's College London))

2025-03-12 13:15: The cultural legacy of historical ethnic violence: The impact on access to finance and innovation (Jianan Lu, University of Portsmouth)

2025-03-13 17:00: Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800 (Aidan Collins (University of Newcastle))

2025-03-18 16:00: Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era (Anne Schaller (Vanderbilt))

2025-03-18 16:30: The Argentine Economic Policy Pendulum: A Refined Measure of Policy Volatility and Its Economic Consequences (1880–2019) (Ana Catelen (Carlos III University of Madrid))

2025-03-19 16:00: Mortality in the century of apartheid, 1940-1970: spatial and racial inequalities in mortality and doctors during the antibiotic transition.​ (Nick Fitzhenry (LSE)​)

2025-04-29 13:00: Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s (Alex Langstaff, New York University)

2025-05-06 13:00: New Books in Labour History (Massimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja)

2025-05-07 16:00: Challenges in estimating historical crisis mortality: spatial heterogeneity, endogenous incompleteness, sample size, and ad hoc methods.​ (Hampton Gaddy (LSE))

2025-05-14 16:00: Was the Industrial Revolution censored in Austria before 1848? Institutional Change and  Useful Human Capital in the Wake of the 1848 Revolutions (Tomas Cvrcek (University College London))

2025-05-15 17:00: Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars (Rory Butcher (University of Leeds))

2025-05-20 16:00: Antitrust policies and their effects on the development of the American film industry (1900-1960) (Alberto López Artacho (University of Barcelona))

2025-05-21 15:00: The public speaks back: health communication in Britain, 1980s-2020.​  **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION** (Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)​)

2025-05-27 13:00: The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain (Kyle Zarif, Yale University)

2025-05-27 16:00: Joint Session : Inequality in the Early Middle Ages / Wellbeing in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean (Francesco Azzoni (Bocconi University), Alessandra Tagini (University of Tübingen))

2025-05-28 16:00: Quantifying Patenting by Women in the U.S., 1845-1924 (Ruveyda Gozen (London School of Economics), co-authored with Mike Andrews and Enrico Berkes)

2025-05-29 17:00: The Gendered Dynamics of Violence in English Apprenticeship: Petitions to the Westminster and Middlesex Sessions, c. 1690-1830 (Hillary Taylor (University of Padua))

2025-06-05 17:00: Rural England Enfranchised: Tenurial Change and Political Mobilization, c.1550-1750 (Steve Hindle  (Washington University in St. Louis))

2025-06-11 16:00: Violence and emigration; evidence from early modern Corsica.​ (Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS de Lyon)​)

2025-06-18 16:00: A Perfect Storm: First-Nature Geography and Economic Development (Christian Vedel (University of Southern Denmark))

2025-10-09 17:15: Born in Smog: The Health Consequences of Historical Air Pollution (Eric Schneider (London School of Economics))

2025-10-14 13:00: Welcome lunch & New PhD student introductions (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-10-16 17:15: The Settlement of the Poor in England c. 1660–1780: Law, Family, and Community (Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster))

2025-10-30 17:00: Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy - Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad' (Kalathmika Natarajan (Exeter))

2025-10-30 17:15: The Largest Air-Conditioned Room in the World: Houston and the History of Climate Change (Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po))

2025-11-06 17:15: Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892-1939 (Tim Guinnane (Yale University))

2025-11-13 17:15: War and Prices: Austerity and the Cost of Living Index in Britain (c. 1939-1950) (Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester))

2025-11-18 13:00: Roundtable: Account books as Sources for Labour History  (Melissa Calaresu, Katie Price, and Amy Erickson (all Cambridge))

2025-11-20 17:15: Woodland and the Medieval Economic Expansion: a Comparative Perspective on North-West Europe (Nicolas Shroeder (Université Libre de Bruxelles))

2025-11-27 17:15: Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900 (Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge))

2025-12-02 13:00: The Timeless Peasant & the Untimely Labourer: The Travails of Decolonising Labour in 20th Century Sri Lanka (Andi Schubert (Cambridge))

2025-12-04 17:15: Free souls, poor soils: the nature of slave emancipation in postcolonial Uruguay (Emiliano Travieso (University of Madrid))

2026-01-28 16:15: Childhood education and the fertility decline in England and Wales, 1870-1911 (Jacob Rose, University of Oxford)

2026-02-04 17:00: Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence (Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge University))

2026-02-18 17:00: State and Industrialization in Turkey since 1930 (Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University))

2026-02-26 17:00: The business of grain milling in England, c.1540-1800 (Mike Braddick, Oxford)

2026-03-04 16:15: Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past. (Colin Pooley, University of Lancaster)

2026-03-11 17:00: Mapping the French gabelles: Fiscal fragmentation, tax evasion, and social conflict (Joseph Enguehard (École normale supérieure de Lyon))

2026-03-12 17:00: The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective (Pinar Ceylan, Cambridge and Christopher Markiewicz, Ghent)

2026-03-18 16:15: Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain (Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge)

2026-04-30 17:00: Quantifying the unquantifiable? Assessing the importance of almsgiving in early modern France and Spain (Julie Marfany, Durham)

2026-05-14 17:00: Illegal trade in the North Atlantic (Anna Knutsson, Cambridge)

2026-05-21 17:00: TBC (Harry Smith, Emily Vine, and Jane Whittle, Exeter)

 : Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)