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Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5:15 pm in Room 5 of the History Faculty. All are welcome, either in person or online.

The Core seminar combines multiple seminars: Medieval Economic and Social History; Early Modern Economic and Social History; Modern Economic and Social History and Policy; African Economic History; Global Economic History; Quantitative History; Financial History; the Centre for History and Economics; and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Their specialist seminar programmes do not run in Michaelmas term, but each meets separately again in the Lent and (sometimes) Easter terms.

Seminar convenor: Amy Erickson (ale25@cam.ac.uk)

Economic and Social History at Cambridge: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk

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If you have a question about this list, please contact: Amy Erickson; Jenny Bishop; lmws2; evc28; gpap3. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

8 upcoming talks and 69 talks in the archive.

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

UserMartin Daunton (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914

All welcome

UserAlessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community

All welcome

UserPaul Warde, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914

All welcome

UserBéatrice Robic (The Sorbonne).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

UserMaria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers

UserJeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 05 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600

All welcome

UserChris Briggs, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 09 January 2023, 17:15-18:45

The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England

UserJames Davis (Queens University Belfast).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 17:15-18:30

CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office

UserDavid Green (Kings College London).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness

UserSamantha Williams (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1921

UserA.G. Hopkins (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892

UserSabine Schneider (London School of Economics).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

UserJane Humphries (London School of Economics).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

The Necessity of Bubbles

UserWilliam H. Janeway (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Tropical development

UserTirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern

UserProf. Richard Smith, Cambridge.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy

UserAlexandra Sapoznik, King's College London.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)

UserProf. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work

UserElise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence

UserCheng YANG (University of Cambridge).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia

UserProf. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825

UserProf. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography

UserDr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570

UserDr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution

UserProfessor Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Women in banking: the introduction of the ‘Personal Banker’ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s

UserDr Lucy Newton (University of Reading).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900

UserProfessor Pat Thane (King’s College London).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain

UserDr Siân Pooley, University of Oxford.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics

UserIan Kumekawa, Centre for History and Economics.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings

UserProfessor Jane Whittle, University of Exeter.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death

UserDr Lluís To Figueras, Universitat de Girona.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

The Great European Famine of 1315-7 revisited: nature, institutions and demography

UserDr Phil Slavin, University of Kent.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since 1695

UserDr Anthony Hotson, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850

UserSebastian Keibek, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Inequality and social mobility in medieval England

UserProfessor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history

UserProfessor Pat Hudson and Dr Keith Tribe.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales

UserProfessor Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Labouring in early modern London

UserDr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

The economics of the ‘Second Slavery’ in the Jihad states of West Africa

UserProfessor Paul Lovejoy, York University, Ontario.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection

UserProfessor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867

UserProfessor Gareth Stedman Jones, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, London.

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

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