Sex and the City Centre: Prostitution, Urban Planning, and Sociological Research in 1960s Lebanon

Jan Altaner (Cambridge).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Income Inequality around the Year Zero: Quantitative Insights from Chinese Literary Sources

Michele Bolla (Cambridge).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

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.

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

Lovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

Monday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

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).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor. Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller (1890-1914)

Xavier Jou (University of Barcelona).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Wine Production and Exchange in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries: A Micro-Economic Analysis’

Thomas Laver (Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Factory families: textile work and women’s life courses in late nineteenth-century Derbyshire

Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Railroad Expansion, Local Shocks and Individual Opportunities: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:30-14:00

The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion

Heqi Cai (LSE).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-13:30

Ottoman Women in Cartoons (1870-1911)

Elif Yumru (Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860

Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London

Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75

Cameron Coventry (Federation University).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations

Mustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations

Eliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Origins of ‘Penitents’: The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Inmates in an English Anglican Magdalen Home, 1848-1914

Moritz Kaiser, University of Aberdeen.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618

Felix Schaff, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Consumption Change in the Early and Mid-Qing: A Case Study of the Lower Yangze Delta

Yitong Qiu, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland

Christopher Whittel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

The spatial distribution of Italy's population and the emergence of Zipf's Law, 1861-1991

Andrea Ramazzotti, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

The occupational structure of Chongqing in the Upper Yangzi Valley, China, 19th and 20th centuries

Ying Dai (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

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).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

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).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century

Michalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

European integration and immigration policy, French and British experiences, 1976-1992

Yasmin Shearmur (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 05 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in China and Singapore, 1919-1937

Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 29 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Industrial development paths from an evolutionary perspective: the Chinese case, 1998-2013

Yiwen Qiu (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

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).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Patterns of female employment in the Pays de Caux and the Perche, 1792-1901

Auriane Terki-Mignot (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Building a Demographic Profile of Foreign Seamen in the British Navy, 1793-1815

Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Imperial Germany, Pax Britannica, and the Political Economy of the Gold Standard, 1871-1914

Sabine Schneider (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

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).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Crime, Punishment, and Body Snatching: Contested Memories of the 1797 Naval Mutinies

Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

The Central Electricity Board - Accidental Conservationists?

Kayt Button (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

The patriarchal republic: local officeholding in early modern England

Jonah Miller (King's College London).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations Part II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations Part I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain

Francisco Beltrán Tapia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

The Treaty of Westminster: a turning point for the Anglo Iberian trade in the late 15th century?

Ana Avino-de-Pablo (Ghent).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden

Kathryn Gary (Lund University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913

Walter Jansson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Family structure and the admission of children to the workhouse in post-famine Ireland

Simon Gallagher (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 14 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Welfare and industrial conflict in the Italian automobile industry, 1968-1975

Niccolò Serri (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 07 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Eating and drinking as a medieval peasant. Innovations in table manners in late medieval rural Valencia

Luis Almenar (University of Valencia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 31 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

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).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 17 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Patterns of manorial office holding at late medieval and early modern Little Downham, 1300-1600

Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 10 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

Leslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 29 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

Daniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1700-1850

Sebastian Keibek (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Beveridge calling: The social insurance and allied services and the Mediterranean welfare model, 1942-1950s

Paco Ruzzante (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

What was linen? Flax and hemp at home and work in 18th-century England

Alice Dolan (Institute of Historical Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 30 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

The local and transnational organisation of the nascent Newfoundland dry cod trade, 1550-1650

Josh Ivinson (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Land market and the long 12th century transformation in Foligno county

Nikita Dmtriev (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

A comparative analysis of payday lending in America and Britain, 1900-1930s

Craig McMahon (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900

Partha Shil (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England

Toby Salisbury (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Adapting to workplace technological change over the long run: Evidence from US longitudinal data

Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Land and credit in the asset allocations of the Jews in late 14th-century Zaragoza

Mike Schraer (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations

Alexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

MPhil Presentations

Ellen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process

Marta Musso (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 January 2015, 12:30-14:00

The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England

Hillary Taylor (Yale).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 December 2014, 12:30-14:00

The Fiscal-Military State and the Land Tax - Observations from Kent and London

Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Ideal vs Reality? The Ideal of the Breadwinner-Homemaker Household in Industrializing Regions in the Netherlands, ca. 1890

Corinne Boter (Wageningen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 17 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 03 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent

Imogen Wedd (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

The impact of mechanization upon female and male employment in the English textile industry, circa 1780-1851

Note change of speaker

Keith Sugden (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

Carolyn Dougherty (York).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 13 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

What can autobiographies tell us about women's time-use in 19th century England?

Sophie McGeevor (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 10 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

"The Dust Was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl

Vellore Arti (Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

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).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 03 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Probate records as a source of occupational information

Sebastian Keibek (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Office holding, social status and stability in a small town, 1661-1861

Lyn Boothman (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1928-31

Simon Abernethy (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

The multiplicitous networks of the East India Company, 1599-1603

Edmond Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Measuring Immigrant Crime in London: The Irish 1801-1820

Adam Crymble (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

17th & 18th century land taxes in England; 'hardly changed since the middle ages' or cutting edge technology. A Kent case study

Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Female employment in the nineteenth century censuses: Methods, pitfalls, and prostitutes

Ellen Potter (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

'Kin-servant' in 1881 British Census Enumerators' Books: Actual Work or Random Enumeration

Xuesheng You (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914

Anne Hanley (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 14 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Male Occupational Structure of Norwich, circa 1720-1841: Evidence from Quarter Session and Other Records

Keith Sugden, Cambridge.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 17 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Impoverishing development? Institution-building in Colonial Punjab (1849-1947)

Atiyab Sultan.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 25 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Widows' Work: Some Evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books

Xuesheng You (Cambridge Group).

Seminar room, Departement of Geography main building, Downing Site.

Monday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Irish Famine: Britain’s Biggest Economic Policy Failure?

Charles Read (Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Linking Business and Philanthropy: The Social Concerns and Philanthropic Behaviours of Bombay's Mercantile Elite, 1845-1870

Kate Boehme (Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 22 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Business and politics in late medieval Iberia: mercantile elites in the Kingdom of Aragon (1380-1430)

Sandra de la Torre Gonzalo (University of Zaragoza).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 28 May 2012, 12:45-14:00

Aspects of Agrarian Change in South Staffordshire: A Case Study of Kingswinford, 1650 to 1750

Irene Haycock (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 21 May 2012, 12:45-14:00

The Curious Case of Yorkshire Luddism

Richard Jones (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 05 March 2012, 12:45-14:00

Schools of Industry and Habits of Industriousness: Making childhood pay in the early Nineteenth Century

David Filtness (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 27 February 2012, 12:45-14:00

Studying the Stayers: occupation, kin links and stability

Lyn Boothman (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 06 February 2012, 12:45-14:00

The Revolt in Rural Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 28 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

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).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 07 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

"Go --West-- North-East Young Man!" Male & Female Migration in 1881

Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:00