History Faculty Room 12


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

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))

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

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

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))

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

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))

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

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))

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

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

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

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

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)

2018-05-10 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)

2018-05-24 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)

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

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))

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))

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))

2023-03-09 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))