Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

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).

History Faculty Room 12.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620

Li Jiang (Exeter).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Paternalism and the politics of “toll corn” in early modern England

Hillary Taylor (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s

Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons

Richard Bell, Oxford University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

Tawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workers’ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830

Kathryn Gary, University of Lund.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660

Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

‘Women’, ‘Lads’ and ‘Copers’: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765

Matthew Pawelski, University of Lancaster.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire

Dr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

Dr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Whom to trust to moralise the market

Prof. Laurence Fontaine.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire

John Morgan (University of Manchester).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism

Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice

James Shaw (University of Sheffield).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England

Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form

Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy

Andrea Caracausi (Padova).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Rational investment behaviour on manorial estates – Grain storage in the Rhineland area and Westphalia (18th & 19th century)

Friederike Scholten (Münster).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

Helen Berry (Newcastle).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 17:00-19:00