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

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

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))

2009-10-08 17:00: Mega-Structures of the Middle Ages: The Construction of Religious Buildings in Europe and Asia, c. 1000-1500 (Maarten Prak, University of Utrecht)

2009-10-12 17:30: 'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007' (Professor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School)

2009-10-14 17:00: The American Welfare State and Social Contract in Hard Times (Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania)

2009-10-15 17:00: Exposing 'the private life of John Bull'? Sex and the popular press in post-war Britain (Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield)

2009-10-19 12:45: Wage levels, gender and domestic service in England, 1650-1850 (Jacob Field (Cambridge Group for the History of Population))

2009-10-22 17:00: The Evolution of the British Economy. Anglo-Scottish trade and political Union; an inter-regional perspective, 1580-1750 (Matt Greenhall, University of Durham)

2009-10-26 13:00: Incidence Analysis of the Restoration and Hanoverian Excise: A Case Study of the Brewing Industry (D'Maris Coffman, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-02 12:45: Death certification and social class in mid-nineteenth century London: diagnosis and the loss of the patient narrative (Graham Mooney (John Hopkins University))

2009-11-02 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (1) (Prof. N.F.R. Crafts, Warwick University)

2009-11-02 17:00:  'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe:  Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.' (Professor Thomas Max Safley, History Department, University of Pennsylvania)

2009-11-04 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (2) (Prof. N.F.R. Crafts, Warwick University)

2009-11-05 17:00: Spaces of Risk and Public Health: hospital, school and home in Victorian Britain (Graham Mooney, John Hopkins University, Baltimore)

2009-11-09 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (3) (Prof. N.F.R. Crafts, Warwick University)

2009-11-11 17:00: Ellen McArthur Lecture: From the 18th to the 21st Century: A Perspective on 250 years of British Economic Growth (4) (Prof. N.F.R. Crafts, Warwick University)

2009-11-16 12:00: 'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.' (Ms Claudia Scala Schlessman, Original Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library)

2009-11-16 17:00: 'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control' (Mr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall)

2009-11-19 17:00: Living at their own hand? Policing the youthful poor in rural England, c. 1620-c.1750 (Tim Wales, Institute of Historical Research)

2009-11-23 13:00: Social mobility in a Danish rural society 1750-1850 and its background- structures, strategies and conclusions (Asbjorn Thomsen (University of Copenhagen))

2009-11-26 17:00: The legacy of Joan Robinson (Geoff Harcourt, Jesus College, Cambridge)

2009-11-30 17:00: 'The economics of badmouthing: Defamation, rackeetering and the French Financial Press at the end of the 19th century.' (Dr Vincent Bignon, EconomiX, University of Paris - Nanterre)

2009-12-03 17:00: Starving times: Popular Responses to the English Economic Crises of the 1690s (Brodie Waddell, University of Warwick)

2009-12-07 17:00: 'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game' (Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School)

2010-01-11 17:00: 'Reflections from the Mirror of Folly: Lord Londonderry and the Stock Market Bubbles of Paris, Amsterdam and London in 1720' (Professor Larry Neal (Illinois/LSE))

2010-01-25 13:00: Mr. Woodcroft and the Value of English Patents, 1617-1841 (Alessandro Nuvolari, Sant' School of Advanced Studies in Pisa)

2010-01-25 17:00: 'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation' (Professor Ann Carlos (U. of Colorado/University College Dublin))

2010-02-01 17:00: Leverhulme Lecture (Osamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)

2010-02-03 17:00: Leverhulme Lecture (Osamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)

2010-02-08 17:00: Leverhulme Lecture (Osamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)

2010-02-08 17:00: 'Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914' (Professor Şevket Pamuk (LSE))

2010-02-10 17:00: Leverhulme Lecture (Osamu Saito, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo)

2010-02-15 12:45: Men’s unemployment and job opportunities for women: an analysis of the 1834 Poor Law Report (Chiaki Yamamoto (Osaka University))

2010-02-15 17:00: 'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories' (Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Janine Maegraith)

2010-02-18 17:00: Household movement and changes in residential structure (Jacob Field, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-22 13:00: Production and Consumption in Early Modern Berkshire, 1650-1750 (Jameson Wooders, University of Reading)

2010-02-25 17:00: 'Measurement Practices and Institutional Change in the nineteenth-century British Economy (Aasish Velkar (LSE))

2010-03-01 12:45: Labour and the life cycle in early modern England: the age of apprenticeship, c. 1600-c.1800 (Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis (LSE))

2010-03-01 17:00: 'The Collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878, and other nineteenth century failures' (Professor Duncan Ross)

2010-03-04 17:00: Evaluating worth and status in early modern England (Alex Shepard, University of Glasgow)

2010-03-08 12:45: Mortality decline in eighteenth century London: new evidence from burials by cause, age and burial cost from the sextons' books of St Martin in the Fields (Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure), Leonard Schwarz (University of Birmingham), Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle))

2010-03-11 17:00: 'Meddlesome Bureaucrats and Ratepayer Democracies: Public Health and the Public Sphere in Victorian England (Tom Crook  (Oxford Brookes))

2010-03-15 17:00: 'Keynes, the Investor' (Dr David Chambers, Judge Business School)

2010-03-24 17:00: The Evolution of Commercial Law in Europe (1250-1650) (Oscar Gelderblom, University of Utrecht)

2010-04-26 12:45: British Economic Growth, 1300-1850 (Steve Broadberry, University of Warwick)

2010-04-26 17:00: The tides of democracy: shipyard workers and social relations in Britian, 1870-1950 (Alastair J. Reid (Girton College))

2010-05-10 12:45: General purpose technologies and economic growth: Electrical diffusion in the manufacturing centre before WWII (Cristiano Ristuccia, University of Cambridge (co-authored with Solomos Solomou))

2010-05-13 17:00: Ralph Tailor's Summer: a scrivener, his city, and the plague (Keith Wrightson, Yale University)

2010-05-17 12:45: Work. Division of labour, household and conceptions of gender in Sweden 1550-1610 (Christopher Pihl	(Uppsala University))

2010-05-17 17:00: Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires (Professor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University)

2010-05-24 12:45: Work, family and ‘industrious women’: an analysis of a test sample from the 1931-41 Farm Household Surveys (Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University, visiting the Cambridge Group))

2010-05-24 17:00: 'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives' (Professor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow)

2010-06-07 12:45: 'A conundrum resolved? Courtship, marriage and the growth of population in eighteenth-century England (Emma Griffin (University of East Anglia))

2010-06-07 17:00: Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 – 1914 (Professor Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham)

2010-06-14 12:45: Do cultural values override incentives? Sex ratio, caste and marriage: Evidence from India (Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick))

2010-06-21 17:00: Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan (Professor Shigeru Wakita, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

2010-10-07 17:00: Some reflections on the origins and causes of the mortality revolution: The English evidence 1300-1800 (Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge))

2010-10-11 17:00: The Value of Regulation and Reputation: Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913 (Dr David Chambers ( Judge Business School))

2010-10-14 17:00: Re-thinking class identities in post-war Britain (Professor Mike Savage, (Manchester))

2010-10-21 17:00: Unreal wages: Long-run standards of living and the ‘golden age’ of the fifteenth century (Professor John Hatcher, (Cambridge))

2010-10-25 17:00:  God and risk: The role of religion in rural cooperative banking in early twentieth-century Netherlands (Mr Chris Colvin, Department of Economic History, LSE)

2010-10-28 17:00: East-West dialogues: World Economic History Congresses and the legacies of the Cold War (Professor Maxine Berg, (Warwick))

2010-11-04 17:00: The growth and development of the British Economy 1270-1870 (Professor Steve Broadberry (Warwick) and Professor Bruce Campbell (Queens, Belfast))

2010-11-08 17:00: Blissfully Ignorant: The Rôle of State Financial and Managerial Assistance in the Decline of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1980 (Dr Duncan Connors, Glasgow)

2010-11-11 17:00: The rise and decline of European Parliaments 1288-1789 (Professor Jan Luiten van Zanden, (Utrecht))

2010-11-18 17:00: Sex before the sexual revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963 (Professor Simon Szreter, (Cambridge))

2010-11-22 17:00: Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008 (Professor Elroy Dimson, London Business School)

2010-11-25 17:00: Can we draw lessons on economic development from the Champagne Fairs? (Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge))

2010-12-02 17:00: Perceptions of population in England c.1550 to 1750 (Professor Paul Slack (Oxford))

2010-12-06 17:00: The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880‐1914 (Dr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford)

2010-12-13 17:00: Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925 (Dr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods)

2011-01-24 17:00: The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939 (Mr Luke Samy, Winton Institute, Oxford)

2011-02-01 17:00: Large scale institutional changes: Land demarcation within the British Empire (Professor Gary Liebcap, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-01 17:00: The Twentieth Century as the Age of Internationalism (Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney)

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))

2011-02-07 17:00: Institutions, Deficits or Wars, on the determinants of the borrowing costs of the British government: 1688-1850 and beyond (Professor Nathan Sussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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

2011-02-28 17:00: Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000 (Professor Pablo Martín-Aceña, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid))

2011-03-01 17:00: East-West dialogues: World Economic History Congresses and the legacies of the Cold War (Maxine Berg, University of Warwick)

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))

2011-03-07 17:00: 'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?' (Dr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton))

2011-03-14 12:45: Chamberlain, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian Economy (Professor Mark Thomas, University of Virginia)

2011-05-02 17:00: An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s (Professor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL)

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

2011-05-16 17:00: Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914 (Dr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh))

2011-05-23 17:00: ’Midas, transmuting all, into paper’: the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the Napoleonic Wars (Dr Elisa Newby, Bank of Finland)

2011-05-30 17:00: Financial innovation and the crisis (Professor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research)

2011-06-13 17:00: The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897 (Professor Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University)

2011-06-15 12:00: A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse (Professor Will Goetzmann (International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management))

2011-10-06 17:00: Geopolitics and the world population problem: 1920s and 1930s (Professor Alison Bashford (Sydney))

2011-10-13 17:00: A great leap forward: 1930s depression and US economic growth (Professor Alexander Field (Santa Clara, California))

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

2011-10-20 17:00: The political economy of wool in Britain, 1662-1824 (Professor Julian Hoppit (UCL))

2011-10-27 17:00: The transformation of the urban epidemiological regime in north west Europe, 1700-1850 (Professor Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle) and Dr Romola Davenport (Cambridge))

2011-11-03 17:00: Markets and pre-industrial economic growth: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries 6th-18th centuries (Professor Bas van Bavel (Utrecht))

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))

2011-11-10 17:00: The political economy of  democracy: some thoughts on nationhood and citizenship in post-colonial India (Dr Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS))

2011-11-17 17:00: Living standards, human capital and the Industrial Revolution (Professor Cormac O’Grada (Dublin))

2011-11-24 17:00: Economic development and structural change since 1700.  New evidence in a global perspective (Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge))

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

2011-12-01 17:00: English prices 1170-1750 (Professor Nick Mayhew (Oxford))

2012-01-23 17:00: Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England (Dr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre)

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

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

2012-02-06 18:00: New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble (Dr Rik Frehen, Tilburg University, Department of Finance)

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

2012-02-20 17:00: The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, 1870-1913 (Dr David Chambers, Judge Business School)

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))

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

2012-03-05 17:00: Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression (Dr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics)

2012-03-19 17:00: The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008 (Professor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER)

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))

2012-05-14 17:00: The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy (Dr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College)

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))

2012-05-23 17:00: Weather and human livelihood. England in the late middle ages (Kathleen Pribyl (University of Brighton))

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))

2012-05-28 17:00: Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742 (Dr D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College and Centre for Financial History)

2012-06-06 17:00: Pleading and proof in Wakefield manor court: the use of written evidence, 1274-1381 (Charlotte Harrison (University of Liverpool))

2012-06-11 17:00: Making the market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the late eighteenth century (Dr Anne Murphy, University of Hertfordshire)

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))

2013-01-21 17:00: The formative years of a modern corporation: the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1623 (Professor Joost Jonker, Utrecht University)

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.)

2013-02-04 17:00: Of Rules and Exceptions:  Financing a Modern Steel Industry in the United States, 1865-1888  (Professor Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva)

2013-02-18 17:00: Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy (Mr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall)

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)

2013-03-04 17:00: Scandal!: American business magazines in the Great Depression (Dr Tiago Mata, HPS, 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)

2013-03-14 17:00: The Everyday Life of the Indian Constitution (1947-1964)  (Rohit De (Centre for History and Economics & Trinity Hall))

2013-04-29 17:00: A Global Census of Corporations in 1910 (Professor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo)

2013-04-30 17:00: Circulations of Law: Majalla and Constitution in the Making of a Muslim State (Iza Hussin (University of Chicago/Clare Hall) )

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)

2013-05-09 17:00: Foreign exchange (FX) and interest rates in the middle ages (Adrian Bell , University of Reading)

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

2013-05-13 14:00: Poverty and Climate: A Conversation (Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Director General, World Health Organization and Former Prime Minister of Norway;  Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University and Trinity College, Cambridge;  Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge)

2013-05-13 17:00: The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824 (Mr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH))

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

2013-05-27 17:00: The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE (Dr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham)

2013-05-28 17:00: Between Privilege and Property: Four Conceptions of Copyright in Late-Qing China (Fei-Hsien Wang (Magdalene College, Cambridge))

2013-06-06 17:00: Constructions of Authority in 14th Century Morocco: The Material Argument for Marinid Rule (Amira Bennison (Magdalene College, Cambridge))

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)

2013-06-10 17:00: Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s (Professor Abe de Jong, RSM Erasmus University)

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

2013-06-25 17:00: Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964 (Mr Stuart Barton, MBA, CFA (CFH and Corpus Christi))

2013-07-01 17:00: Open Access: A Forum (Peter Baldwin (UCLA), Anne Jarvis (University Librarian, Cambridge), Ira Katznelson (Columbia; President, Social Science Research Council), Rachel Leow (Center for History and Economics, Harvard), Peter Phillips (Chief Executive, CUP))

2013-10-10 17:00: Coverture: The Medieval Perspective (Dr Cordelia Beattie (Edinburgh))

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

2013-10-17 17:00: Assessing economic freedom in historical perspective: the experience of OECD countries (Professor Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III University, Madrid) )

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))

2013-10-31 17:00: Rethinking China’s Path of Industrialization – The Role of State and Institutions (Professor Harry X. Wu (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) )

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))

2013-11-07 17:00: From Mercantilism to Macroeconomics (Dr Craig Muldrew (Cambridge))

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

2013-11-14 17:00: The Poor and the Poorest fifty years on (Professor Ian Gazeley (Sussex) )

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

2013-11-21 17:00: ‘Estate Reconstitution’ and the Separation of Town and Countryside: the case of Kent’s rural-urban fringe, 1577-1914 (Professor David Ormrod (Kent) )

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

2013-11-28 17:00: Throwaway Society? Writing a new history of consumption in the early twenty-first century (Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) )

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

2013-12-05 17:00: The Economics of Salvation in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (Dr Peter Sarris (Cambridge))

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

2014-01-20 17:00: Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 (Professor Richard Roberts - Director, Centre for Contemporary British History at Kings College, London )

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

2014-01-28 17:00: Modern Times: Work, play and Afro-diasporic rhythms, from Moreau de Saint-Méry to Siegfried Kracauer  (Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King's College London )

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))

2014-02-03 17:00: Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis (Paul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College)

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))

2014-02-11 17:00: The development of the labour movement and political thought in Belgium in the 19th century ( Widukind de Ridder, CEGESOMA, Brussels)

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))

2014-02-17 17:00: The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis (Charles Read, Centre for Financial History and Christ's College)

2014-02-18 17:00: The debate on inequality from Rousseau to Marx (Francisco Bethencourt, King's College London )

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))

2014-03-03 17:00: The political economy of inflation in the 1970s (Professor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow)

2014-03-04 17:00:  Inter-Asian métissage: Other boundaries of rule and indigenous social hierarchies in French Indochina  ( Natasha Pairaudeau, 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))

2014-05-05 17:00: Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the East India Company (Edmond Smith)

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))

2014-05-19 17:00: Finance and the real economy. (Lord Adair Turner)

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)

2014-05-26 17:00: This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010 (Dr Christopher Coyle, Queen's University, Belfast)

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

2014-06-02 17:00: Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59 (William Allen, Cass Business School)

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))

2014-06-09 17:00: Jacques Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) and the Transformation of Modern Political Discourse (Professor Jacob Soll, University of Southern California)

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))

2014-10-17 17:00: Summer in the City: banking failures of 1974 and the development of international banking supervision (Professor Catherine Schenk (Glasgow))

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))

2014-11-05 17:00: The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.  (Professor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.)

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

2014-11-12 17:00: State Dissolution, Sovereign Debt and Default: Lessons from Irish independence. (Dr Eoin McLaughlin, University of St Andrews)

2014-11-13 17:00: International currencies past, present and future: two views from economic history (Professor Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley))

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 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 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))

2015-01-19 17:00: What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s (Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay, University of Warwick)

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))

2015-01-27 17:00: The South Asian Monsoon: A History for the Anthropocene (Sunil Amrith (Harvard University))

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))

2015-02-02 17:00: Going beyond ‘market versus state’: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act  (Rasheed Saleuddin, Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge)

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))

2015-02-09 17:00: Rating the United Kingdom: The British government’s first sovereign credit ratings (Dr David Gill, University of Nottingham)

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

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)

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

2015-03-03 17:00: Black Networks after Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration (Kaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge) with Kenneth Chay (Brown University))

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

2015-03-09 17:00: British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Professor Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University, London)

2015-03-10 17:00: Property and Portfolios: Spaces of Finance in Nineteenth-century France (Alexia Yates (CRASSH, University of Cambridge))

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

2015-04-23 18:00: Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment (William Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer)

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

2015-04-28 17:00: The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Finding a Useful Past in Japan (Julia Adeney Thomas (University of Notre Dame/Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study))

2015-05-06 19:00: The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015 (Dr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10.)

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))

2015-05-11 17:00: Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934 (Professor Barry Eichengreen,  George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley)

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

2015-05-13 17:00: Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite (Teresa Tadem (University of the Philippines, Diliman))

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))

2015-05-25 17:00: Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company (Professor Bjørn L. Basberg, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen)

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

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

2015-06-11 17:00: The Scottish Question and the Break-up of Britain (Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews) and David Runciman (POLIS, Cambridge) )

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 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 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 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))

2016-01-19 17:00: Nazi Atrocities, Soviet Justice, and International Law (Franziska Exeler (Centre for History and Economics/Clare Hall) )

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

2016-01-25 17:00: Individual investors in the late nineteenth century:  what did they invest in, and why? (Professor Janette Rutterford, The Open University Business School)

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))

2016-02-08 17:00: Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695 (Dr Anthony Hotson, Wolfson College, Oxford and Centre for Financial History)

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))

2016-02-16 17:00:  Ethical Capitalism? The Rise of British Humanitarianism after 1947  ( Tehila Sasson (Institute of Historical Research, London) )

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))

2016-02-22 17:00: The end of the Swiss economic model (Professor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania)

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))

2016-02-29 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))

2016-03-07 17:00: The ‘Bimetallic Controversy’ and the golden age of monetary orthodoxy, 1880-1900 (Sabine Schneider, St John's College, Cambridge and Centre for Financial History)

2016-03-08 17:00:  From Antislavery to Colonialism ( Padraic Scanlan (London School of Economics) )

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

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))

2016-04-25 17:00: Related investing: corporate ownership and the dynamics of capital mobilization during industrialization (Professor Zorina Khan)

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

2016-05-03 17:00: A Killer In Search of a Trial: Criminal Lunacy in the British Empire (Catherine Evans (Joint Centre for History and Economics, Harvard / Magdalene College) )

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)

2016-10-06 17:00: 'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867  (Gareth Stedman Jones (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 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 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 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))

2017-01-19 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))

2017-01-30 17:00: UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report (Oliver Bush, Bank of England and London School of Economics)

2017-01-31 17:00: Industrialization, labour conflict, and the role of state and trade unions in Vietnam (Pietro Masina (University of Naples L'Orientale / Clare Hall) )

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 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))

2017-02-13 17:00: The London merchant banks and the road to the 1931 crisis (Dr Brian O'Sullivan, Kings College London)

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))

2017-02-21 17:00: 'The breath of history on our necks’: the European revolutionary left and Portugal, 1974-1975  (Pedro Ramos Pinto (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) )

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)

2017-02-27 17:00: Why did Britain have broad money supply targets? (Dr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History)

2017-02-28 17:00: "Earth butchery": explaining the end of empire in Europe and America, c.1750-1865 (Paul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge) )

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)

2017-03-13 17:00: Money: the unauthorised biography (Dr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies )

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))

2017-05-23 17:00: The Kenyatta Trial as an International Legal Event: Decolonization, Diaspora, and Rebellious Lawyers (Rohit De (Yale University))

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))

2017-06-06 17:00: New Earths, Newer Animals:  Repairing Nature's Oversight (Harriet Ritvo (MIT))

2017-06-13 17:00: Lenin on the Train (Catherine Merridale (IHR))

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)

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

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 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 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))

2018-01-23 17:00: A World of Goods: Ecology and Commodity Production in Europe’s Empires (Corey Ross, University of Birmingham )

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)

2018-02-05 17:00: Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century (Dr Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics and Political Science)

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))

2018-02-06 17:00: An intellectual history of the universal basic income  (Daniel Zamora, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

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))

2018-02-12 17:00: Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50 (Dr Aaron Graham, University College London)

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

2018-02-20 17:00: How India Became Democratic: Comparative Perspectives (Panel discussion led by Gary Gerstle and Tim Harper) (Ornit Shani, University of Haifa)

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

2018-02-26 17:00: Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance (Dr Daisuke Ikemoto, Meijigakuin University and Darwin College)

2018-03-13 17:00: Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899 (Professor Ian Phimister, University of the Free State)

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)

2018-05-02 16:00: The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK (Dr Leon Wansleben, London School of Economics)

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

2018-05-07 17:00: Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange     (Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, UCL and Centre for Financial History)

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)

2018-05-14 17:00: What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies? (Graham Turner, GFC Economics)

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)

2018-05-29 17:00: South Atlantic Capitalisms: dictatorship, law, and economic life in interwar Portugal and Brazil (Melissa Teixeira (Harvard University))

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

2018-06-14 17:00:  The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought. 170 years on, the legacy and current thinking (Gareth Stedman Jones, Centre for History and Economics/Queen Mary, and Karma Nabulsi, Oxford University)

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))

2018-10-19 17:45: Transforming the Future? Anticipation in the 21st Century (Riel Miller, UNESCO)

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))

2018-10-31 17:00: Time horizons as market boundaries in private, public and social enterprise (Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford))

2018-11-01 17:00: Impatient and patient capital: housing and democracy (Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford))

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

2018-11-07 17:00: Safeguarding the future: families, education, and contract (Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford))

2018-11-08 17:00: Credit time horizons as ethical boundaries (Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History (Oxford))

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))

2019-01-17 17:00: 'Statisticians of the World, Unite!': The Statistical Society of London and the Making of Social Statisticians, 1833-1877 (Yasu Okazawa (Max Planck Institute, Berlin))

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)

2019-01-28 17:00: The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the world’s first soundly-funded pension plan (David Pitt-Watson, Judge Business School)

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

2019-01-31 17:00: 'Full marks to this sex-help clinic for the teenage lover'. The Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham (1964-1980) (Caroline Rusterholz (St John’s College, Cambridge))

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)

2019-02-11 17:00: Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain (Nicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford)

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

2019-02-14 17:00: Prescribing childlessness: advice on infertility before in-vitro fertilisation in Britain, 1950-1980 (Yuliya Hilevych (Wolfson College, Cambridge))

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)

2019-02-25 17:00: Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution. (Dr John Gent, KCL)

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

2019-02-28 17:00: 'The school case of 'Poor Harold': remembering and forgetting deceased children within family life in Britain, c.1900-50s (Laura King (Leeds University))

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)

2019-03-11 17:00: Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach. (Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England)

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))

2019-05-28 17:00: Hybridity, Breed, and Wildness (Harriet Ritvo (MIT))

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)

2019-10-30 17:00: Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations (Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge) )

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)

2019-11-11 17:00: City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century (Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge))

2019-11-12 17:00: The Religious Roots of Environmentalist Thought and Activism in Europe and America (Mark Stoll (Texas Tech University / Rachel Carson Centre) )

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)

2019-12-03 17:00: Prospecting and bioprospecting on Russia's Central Asian cotton frontier, 1880s - 1916 (Jennifer Keating (University College Dublin) )

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))

2020-01-21 17:00: Courts, commerce, and labor. Investigating lay courts in nineteenth century Paris and France (Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po))

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

2020-01-27 17:00: Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945 (Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

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

2020-02-03 17:00: The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population (Professor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading)

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

2020-02-10 17:00: City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century (Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge))

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))

2020-02-25 17:00: Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted? (Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham))

2020-03-09 17:00: Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian (James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer))

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)

2020-05-11 17:00: Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36. (Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, Judge Business School)

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))

2021-01-27 17:00: Strategy and Tactics in the Environmental Revolution (Paul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge))

2021-02-01 17:00: The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation (Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE)  and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro))

2021-02-02 17:00: Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s (Megan Black (MIT) )

2021-02-15 17:00: Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983 (Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge))

2021-02-17 17:00: The Vagrancy of Economic Invisibility (Francesca Trivellato (IAS, Princeton))

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))

2021-03-01 17:00: Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939 (William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research))

2021-03-02 17:00: Ghost in a Shell. Scenarios and the world-making of Royal Dutch Shell (Jenny Andersson (Sciences Po Paris / Uppsala))

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))

2021-03-15 17:00: HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009 (Dr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History)

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))

2021-05-03 17:00: The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage (Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London)

2021-05-10 17:00: Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia (Professor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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))

2021-06-16 17:00: Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944 (Claire Zalc (IHMC/CNRS/EHESS))

2021-07-14 17:00: The Significance of Small Things: Towards a History of Dam Building in the Twentieth Century (Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University))

2021-09-15 17:00: The Unexceptional State: Rethinking the State in the Nineteenth Century (France, United States) (Nicolas Barreyre (EHESS) and Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po) )

2021-10-13 17:00: Histories of Capitalism: the View from Offshore (Vanessa Ogle (UC Berkeley) )

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)

2021-11-17 17:00: The Judicial Counterrevolution to Reconstruction (Nikolas Bowie (Harvard))

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)

2022-01-27 17:00: Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective (Pedro Ramos Pinto (Cambridge) et al.)

2022-01-31 17:00: The politics of money: Presidential power and the Federal Reserve System (Dr Nigel Bowles (University of Oxford))

2022-02-14 17:00: Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts (Mario Pisani (HM Treasury))

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))

2022-02-24 17:00:  Contested Values: Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, USA, 1979-1989 (Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (CRASSH))

2022-03-02 17:30: Lecture 1: What the Natufians did for us (Robert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi)

2022-03-03 17:30: Lecture 2: Malthus in the Levant (Robert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi)

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))

2022-03-09 17:30: Lecture 3: Domar and Habakkuk on the Euphrates (Robert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi)

2022-03-10 17:30: Lecture 4: Adam Smith in Mesopotamia (Robert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi)

2022-03-14 17:00: The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research (Dr Linda Arch (ICMA, University of Reading))

2022-03-17 17:00: The patriarchy of diaspora: Race fantasy and gender blindness in Chen Da’s studies of the Nanyang Chinese in Southeast Asia (Rachel Leow (Cambridge) )

2022-03-28 17:00: Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism revisited, 1973-1993 (Dr Colm Murphy (Institute of Historical Research))

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: Regimes of work precarity. Workers' uncertainty in France during the postwar economic boom (Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po Paris))

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

2022-05-10 17:00: Popular attitudes to taxation in Britain c. 1945-1992: reassessing the evidence (Dr Rosa Hodgkin (Institute for Government))

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

2022-05-13 17:00: The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy (John Roy Price, Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon)

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: Empire of inequality: the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire, 1900-1950s (Madeline Woker (Cambridge))

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))

2022-06-09 17:00: Consumption and inclusion in Indian mid-century planning: The universal opulence of PC Mahalanobis (Poornima Paidipaty (King‘s College London))

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)

2023-01-17 17:00: Building Barrios and seeking sexual rights: women’s activism in Spain from the 1950s to the 1980s (Roseanna Webster (University of 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))

2023-01-30 17:00: An exchange rate history of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992 (Dr Alain Naef, Banque de France)

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))

2023-02-13 17:00: What’s in a Bubble? The South Sea Bubble and the conceptual history of financial crisis. (Dr Claire Wilkinson (University of Cambridge))

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))

2023-02-27 17:00: The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8 (Professor Susan Howson, University of Toronto)

2023-03-07 17:15: A web of entanglements: following East African cowries across land and oceans (18th-19th century) (Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna))

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))

2023-03-13 17:00: How Big Bang ruined the City.   Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 financial crisis and all that followed? (Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator)

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))

2023-05-09 17:00: Springtime in the City: Time, Seasons, and the Transnational Urban Environment (Dorothee Brantz (TU-Berlin) )

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))

2023-05-16 17:00: Political engagement, profession and socialist economics in fin-de-siècle Europe (Massimo Asta (University of Cambridge / IHC - NOVA FCSH))

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))

2023-06-01 17:00: Border crossings - mapping UK discussions about partition at the 75th anniversary of 1947 (Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS, University of London) )

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))

2024-01-23 17:00: Properties of Empire: Contests over the Commons on Newfoundland’s French Shore, 1763-1783 (Arianne Sedef Urus (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))

2024-02-06 17:00: 'Black coal is capital, white coal is revenue': French hydropower and the idea of renewable energy, 1889-1919 (Tobias Silseth (University of Cambridge))

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)

2024-02-12 17:00: Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy (Sir Tim Lankester (University of Oxford))

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

2024-02-19 17:00: The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966. (Kofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-20 17:00: 'Patient Planet': An Environmental History of Globalization (Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University / University of Cambridge))

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))

2024-02-26 17:00: How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance man’s view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks. (David Neckar (WTW Financial Solutions))

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))

2024-03-05 17:00: 'Growing up nuclear': Childhood memories of nuclear power in Cold War Finland (Tiia Sahrakorpi (Aalto University))

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))

2024-03-11 17:00: How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.   (Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta))

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)

2024-04-30 17:15: Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Marc-William Palen, University of Exeter)

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)

2024-05-09 17:00: Peter Pan Pachyderms? What a doomed experiment to reintroduce elephants taught us about animal cultures (Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University)

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)  )

2024-06-04 17:15: A History of Non-Sustainable Integration: High-Speed Rail, Europeanisation, and the Failure of the "Nordic Triangle", 1985-2005 (Andreas Mørkved Hellenes, Chalmers University of Technology/Clare Hall)

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)

2025-02-03 17:00: A new history of the interwar Bank of England (Dr Robert Yee (University of Oxford))

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)

2025-02-04 17:00: "Fallacies of misplaced concreteness"? The use of History in post-war environmental arguments (Paul Warde (Pembroke College, Cambridge))

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))

2025-02-17 17:00: The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72. (Dr Arthur Rothier-Bautzer (Centre for Financial History and GlobalCapital))

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))

2025-02-25 17:00: The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire (Tehila Sasson (University of Oxford) )

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))

2025-03-03 17:00: What does it mean to Democratize Finance? (Dr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge))

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))

2025-03-11 17:00: A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal (Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania) )

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))

2025-03-17 17:00: Money: a Treasury-centric view (Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London))

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)

2025-05-06 17:00: Transition, revolution, modernity: (re)thinking capitalism with Eric Hobsbawm  (Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh) )

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))

2025-05-27 17:00: From “Green Revolution” to “Economic Liberalization” in 1970s-80s' India: Impacts of Oil Crises in a Global Perspective (Shigeru Akita (University of Osaka/Clare Hall))

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))

2025-10-30 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))

2025-11-21 17:00: Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France (Malick Ghachem (MIT) )

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)

2026-02-02 17:00: 'Muddling through or tunnelling through?’ UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism and the Great Inflation (Ryland Thomas (Bank of England))

2026-02-03 17:00: Little Corners of Freedom, Green Dictatorship, and the Sublime in the Late-Soviet Nature Reserve  (Mariia Koskina (Joint Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge) )

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

2026-02-16 17:00: Bonds without borders: the Eurobond market (Chris O’Malley)

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

2026-02-24 17:00: Maroon ecologies and the São Tomé plantation world: histories of black insurgency (Marta Macedo (Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon))

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

2026-03-02 17:00: The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective (Dr Chetun Patel (King’s College London))

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

2026-03-10 17:00: A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s–1910s) (Giacomo Bonan (University of Turin) )

2026-03-11 16:00: By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire (Mélanie Lamotte (Duke) )

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)

2026-03-16 17:00: Mortgages, maturity mismatching and the transformation of British banking: 1971-92 (Dr William Turkington (HM Treasury))

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

2026-04-01 17:00: The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History (Arne Westad (Yale) )

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

2026-05-05 17:00: Packing the Border: Quail Crates and the Regulation of Animal Movement on the US-Mexico Border, 1910s-1940s (Sophie FitzMaurice (Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge) )

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)

2026-05-26 17:00: The spread of environmental cost-benefit analysis in UK government, c.1966-1995: representing the public in the Anthropocene (Charles Troup (Yale))

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