Additional seminars of interest to Campop members


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

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

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

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

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

2014-05-14 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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2015-01-22 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))

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

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

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))

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

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

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))

2016-02-23 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))

2016-03-01 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))

2016-03-09 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))

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

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))

2016-05-25 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))

2016-10-06 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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

2016-12-01 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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

2017-04-27 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))

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

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

2017-10-05 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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

2017-11-30 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)

2018-01-24 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)

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

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

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

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

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

2018-05-09 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)

2018-05-23 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)

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

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))

2018-10-18 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))

2018-10-25 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))

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

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))

2018-11-29 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))

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

2020-10-08 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))

2020-10-22 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))

2020-11-05 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))

2020-11-19 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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

2023-04-27 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))

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

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

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

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

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))

2023-10-19 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)

2023-11-02 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)

2023-11-16 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))

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

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

2024-02-08 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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2025-02-12 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))

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

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

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))

2025-04-29 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)

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

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)

2025-05-29 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))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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