Financial History Seminar

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

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

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance man’s view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks.

David Neckar (WTW Financial Solutions).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 26 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

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

Kofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

One Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Sir Tim Lankester (University of Oxford).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

How Big Bang ruined the City. Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 financial crisis and all that followed?

Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator.

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 13 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8

Professor Susan Howson, University of Toronto.

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

What’s in a Bubble? The South Sea Bubble and the conceptual history of financial crisis.

Dr Claire Wilkinson (University of Cambridge).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 13 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Alain Naef, Banque de France.

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

John Roy Price, Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon.

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Rosa Hodgkin (Institute for Government).

Castlereagh Room at St John's College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism revisited, 1973-1993

Dr Colm Murphy (Institute of Historical Research).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 28 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research

Dr Linda Arch (ICMA, University of Reading).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 14 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts

Mario Pisani (HM Treasury).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 14 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Nigel Bowles (University of Oxford).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London.

Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, Judge Business School.

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

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

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

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

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

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

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.

Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England.

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.

Dr John Gent, KCL.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

Nicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

David Pitt-Watson, Judge Business School.

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies?

Graham Turner, GFC Economics.

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

Monday 14 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange

Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, UCL and Centre for Financial History.

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

Monday 07 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK

Dr Leon Wansleben, London School of Economics.

Castlereagh Room in the Fisher Building, St John’s College.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899

Professor Ian Phimister, University of the Free State.

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

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance

Dr Daisuke Ikemoto, Meijigakuin University and Darwin College.

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

Monday 26 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50

Dr Aaron Graham, University College London.

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

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century

Dr Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Money: the unauthorised biography

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?

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

Dr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

The London merchant banks and the road to the 1931 crisis

Dr Brian O'Sullivan, Kings College London.

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

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Related investing: corporate ownership and the dynamics of capital mobilization during industrialization

Professor Zorina Khan.

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

Monday 25 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

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

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

The end of the Swiss economic model

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Anthony Hotson, Wolfson College, Oxford and Centre for Financial History.

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

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Individual investors in the late nineteenth century: what did they invest in, and why?

Professor Janette Rutterford, The Open University Business School.

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

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

A Micro-Historical Approach to Global China: The Daily Life of Europeans in Beijing in the Long 18th Century

http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news-events/eas/global-china/new-approaches-2015-06-11

Prof. Eugenio Menegon, Boston University.

Rooms 8&9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company

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

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

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

Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton/Hong Kong Region in Late Qing China (1840-1911)

http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news-events/eas/global-china

Prof Angela Leung (University of Hongkong).

Rooms 8&9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 16:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934

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

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

Financial History Seminar

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment

William Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer.

Darwin College (Old Library).

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

Financial History Seminar

British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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

Darwin College, Old Library.

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

From World History to World Literature: China, the South, and the Global 1960s

http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/news-events/eas/global-china/new-approaches-2015-06-12

Prof. Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los Angeles .

Rooms 8&9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 16:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Rating the United Kingdom: The British government’s first sovereign credit ratings

Dr David Gill, University of Nottingham.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Going beyond ‘market versus state’: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act

Rasheed Saleuddin, Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s

Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay, University of Warwick.

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

Monday 19 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Eoin McLaughlin, University of St Andrews.

Seminar Room 2, Chapel Court, Sidney Sussex College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Jacques Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) and the Transformation of Modern Political Discourse

Professor Jacob Soll, University of Southern California.

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

Monday 09 June 2014, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59

William Allen, Cass Business School.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010

Dr Christopher Coyle, Queen's University, Belfast.

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

Monday 26 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Finance and the real economy.

Lord Adair Turner.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the East India Company

Edmond Smith.

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

Monday 05 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The political economy of inflation in the 1970s

Professor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis

Paul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s

Professor Abe de Jong, RSM Erasmus University.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 10 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE

Dr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824

Mr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH).

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

A Global Census of Corporations in 1910

Professor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Scandal!: American business magazines in the Great Depression

Dr Tiago Mata, HPS, Cambridge.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy

Mr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Joost Jonker, Utrecht University.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Making the market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the late eighteenth century

Dr Anne Murphy, University of Hertfordshire.

Jane Harrison Room, Newnham College.

Monday 11 June 2012, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy

Dr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression

Dr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, 1870-1913

Dr David Chambers, Judge Business School.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble

Dr Rik Frehen, Tilburg University, Department of Finance.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England

Dr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse

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

LT2, Judge Business School.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University.

Barbara White Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Financial innovation and the crisis

Professor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

’Midas, transmuting all, into paper’: the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the Napoleonic Wars

Dr Elisa Newby, Bank of Finland.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 23 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton).

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Institutions, Deficits or Wars, on the determinants of the borrowing costs of the British government: 1688-1850 and beyond

Professor Nathan Sussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 07 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939

Mr Luke Samy, Winton Institute, Oxford.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 24 January 2011, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925

Dr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Elroy Dimson, London Business School.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Blissfully Ignorant: The Rôle of State Financial and Managerial Assistance in the Decline of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1980

Dr Duncan Connors, Glasgow.

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

Monday 08 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

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

Mr Chris Colvin, Department of Economic History, LSE.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Dr David Chambers ( Judge Business School).

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

'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.

Professor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires

Professor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.

Barbara White Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

'Keynes, the Investor'

Dr David Chambers, Judge Business School.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

'The Collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878, and other nineteenth century failures'

Professor Duncan Ross.

Barbara White Room, Newnham College.

Monday 01 March 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

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

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

Financial History Seminar

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

Professor Şevket Pamuk (LSE).

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

'Reflections from the Mirror of Folly: Lord Londonderry and the Stock Market Bubbles of Paris, Amsterdam and London in 1720'

Professor Larry Neal (Illinois/LSE).

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 11 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'

Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

'The economics of badmouthing: Defamation, rackeetering and the French Financial Press at the end of the 19th century.'

Dr Vincent Bignon, EconomiX, University of Paris - Nanterre.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Monday 30 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'

Mr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall.

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

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

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

101 Coach House, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

'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

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

Sidgwick G-20, Newnham College.

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

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Professor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

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