POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

Dr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach

Xuesheng You (Swansea).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey

Zijing Shen (Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution

Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain

Yoko Morita and Chiaki Yamamoto.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870

Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815

Sir Roderick Floud.

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20

Frances Richardson (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century

Piotr Koryś (University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland

Frank Geary and Tom Stark.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression

Cristiano Ristuccia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Anglo-American productivity differentials once again

Mark Thomas (University of Virginia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930

Professor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)

Dr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Railways and population: spatial interactions

Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.

Eduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

Dr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression

Dr Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain

Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective

Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?

Dr Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion? 

Professor M. Erdem Kabadayi (Istanbul Bilgi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 05 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England

Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Dr Mohamed Saleh (University of Toulouse).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Mr Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

Monday 04 March 2013, 12:45-14:00