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How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.

UserStephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.

UserKofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

HouseOne Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy

UserSir Tim Lankester (University of Oxford).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8

UserProfessor Susan Howson, University of Toronto.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

An exchange rate history of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992

UserDr Alain Naef, Banque de France.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy

UserJohn Roy Price, Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockFriday 13 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Popular attitudes to taxation in Britain c. 1945-1992: reassessing the evidence

UserDr Rosa Hodgkin (Institute for Government).

HouseCastlereagh Room at St John's College.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

The politics of money: Presidential power and the Federal Reserve System

UserDr Nigel Bowles (University of Oxford).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia

UserProfessor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage

UserDr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

UserDr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

UserWilliam Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983

UserDr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

UserProfessor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36.

UserDr Rasheed Saleuddin, Judge Business School.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 May 2020, 17:00-18:30

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

UserJames Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?

UserSir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

UserProfessor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

UserProfessor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

UserNicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the world’s first soundly-funded pension plan

UserDavid Pitt-Watson, Judge Business School.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Money: the unauthorised biography

UserDr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies .

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/djn33@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report

UserOliver Bush, Bank of England and London School of Economics.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

The ‘Bimetallic Controversy’ and the golden age of monetary orthodoxy, 1880-1900

UserSabine Schneider, St John's College, Cambridge and Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

The end of the Swiss economic model

UserProfessor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company

UserProfessor Bjørn L. Basberg, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 25 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934

UserProfessor Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

UserDr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 19:00-20:00

Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment

UserWilliam Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer.

HouseDarwin College (Old Library).

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:30

British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

UserProfessor Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University, London.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

State Dissolution, Sovereign Debt and Default: Lessons from Irish independence.

UserDr Eoin McLaughlin, University of St Andrews.

HouseSeminar Room 2, Chapel Court, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.

UserProfessor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59

UserWilliam Allen, Cass Business School.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 17:00-18:30

Finance and the real economy.

UserLord Adair Turner.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

The political economy of inflation in the 1970s

UserProfessor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis

UserCharles Read, Centre for Financial History and Christ's College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis

UserPaul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

UserProfessor Richard Roberts - Director, Centre for Contemporary British History at Kings College, London .

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964

UserMr Stuart Barton, MBA, CFA (CFH and Corpus Christi).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE

UserDr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824

UserMr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

A Global Census of Corporations in 1910

UserProfessor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 17:00-19:00

Scandal!: American business magazines in the Great Depression

UserDr Tiago Mata, HPS, Cambridge.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 17:00-19:00

Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy

UserMr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Of Rules and Exceptions: Financing a Modern Steel Industry in the United States, 1865-1888

UserProfessor Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

The formative years of a modern corporation: the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1623

UserProfessor Joost Jonker, Utrecht University.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 17:00-19:00

Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742

UserDr D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College and Centre for Financial History.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy

UserDr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008

UserProfessor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression

UserDr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble

UserDr Rik Frehen, Tilburg University, Department of Finance.

HouseCastle Teaching Room, 4th floor, Cambridge Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, CB2 1AG.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England

UserDr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 17:00-19:00

A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse

UserProfessor Will Goetzmann (International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management).

HouseLT2, Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 12:00-13:15

The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897

UserProfessor Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 June 2011, 17:00-19:00

Financial innovation and the crisis

UserProfessor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 30 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914

UserDr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s

http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/borromei/index.html

UserProfessor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?'

UserDr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 17:00-19:00

Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000

UserProfessor Pablo Martín-Aceña, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925

UserDr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880‐1914

UserDr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008

UserProfessor Elroy Dimson, London Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

God and risk: The role of religion in rural cooperative banking in early twentieth-century Netherlands

UserMr Chris Colvin, Department of Economic History, LSE.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 25 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

The Value of Regulation and Reputation: Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913

UserDr David Chambers ( Judge Business School).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:00-19:00

Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan

UserProfessor Shigeru Wakita, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 21 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 – 1914

UserProfessor Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives'

This talk has been re-scheduled from the Michaelmas term, when it was delayed due to speaker illness.

UserProfessor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires

UserProfessor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

'Keynes, the Investor'

UserDr David Chambers, Judge Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 March 2010, 17:00-19:00

'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories'

UserProfessor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Janine Maegraith.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

'Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914'

UserProfessor Şevket Pamuk (LSE).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation'

UserProfessor Ann Carlos (U. of Colorado/University College Dublin).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'

UserProfessor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-19:00

'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'

UserMr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserMs Claudia Scala Schlessman, Original Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library.

House101 Coach House, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Thomas Max Safley, History Department, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseSidgwick G-20, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:30-19:30

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