Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Credit, Debt, and Personal Failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800

Aidan Collins (University of Newcastle).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems, c.1250-1550

Alex Sapoznik (King's College London).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Property, debt, and women’s economic agency in 18th-century Austria

Matthias Donabaum (University of Vienna).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?

Liam Brunt (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

"There was no auditor who could trip him up": Demesne managers and the auditing process in 14th-century England and Wales

Jerome Gasson (University of Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Labour History Cluster

Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain

Laura Schwarz, University of Warwick.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Reasons to rebel: Revisiting the 1980s

Sheila Rowbotham.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Escape from Biology: Highlighting the Differences Between the Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of the Modern World

Emanuele Felice (IULM).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast

Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Labour History Cluster

Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective

Maria Agren, University of Uppsala.

Room 3, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Sixty Eears after Fogel’s Social Savings: Measuring the Growth Impact of Railways in the Periphery

Alfonso Herranz Loncan (University of Barcelona).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800

Regina Grafe (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s

Brian Varian (Newcastle).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Industrialisation, Economic Development, the Industrial Revolution and Occupational Structure in England and Wales 1500 – 1911 (with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011)

Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Royal Justice, Society and Economy in Medieval England: Evidence from Derbyshire

Chris Briggs (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 17:15-18:45

Labour History Cluster

Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe

Radka Šustrová, University of Vienna.

History Faculty Board Room.

Wednesday 19 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

Phil Withington, University of Sheffield.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britain’s economic development, 1660-1720

Edmond Smith, University of Manchester.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy

Natashia Glaisyer, University of York.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?)

Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Faith and Finance in the Early Modern World: The capital market of Manila and the financing of the Pacific Trade, 1668-1820

Juan Rivas Moreno, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society

Perry Gauci, Oxford.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girls’ education in the first half of the eighteenth century

Amy Erickson, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761

Alexander Wakelam, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

Martin Daunton (Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)

All welcome

Bruno Blonde (Antwerp).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

All welcome

Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

All welcome

Paul Warde, Cambridge.

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

All welcome

Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It's not (all) about the money

Jordan Claridge, LSE.

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire

Leigh Gardner, LSE..

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

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

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers

Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Monetary policies and practices: money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe

Christopher Pihl (Uppsala).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care in Early Modern England

Charmian Mansell (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records

Tim Stretton (Saint Mary’s University, Canada).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime

Julie Hardwick (UT Austin).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED: ‘Rendered much cheaper, than our work-people can make’; Women’s employment in textile manufacturing and English political economy, 1688-1722

Hugo Bromley (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850

Eugene Costello (UC Cork & Stockholm University).

Crausaz Wordsworth Building, Robinson College, Adams Road.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620

Li Jiang (Exeter).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Paternalism and the politics of “toll corn” in early modern England

Hillary Taylor (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600

All welcome

Chris Briggs, Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England

James Davis (Queens University Belfast).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

David Green (Kings College London).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Jane Humphries (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Labour History Cluster

Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950

Arvand Mirsafian, Uppsala University.

History Faculty Board Room.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation

Catia Antunes (Leiden).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

William H. Janeway (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations

Jane Whittle (Exeter).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England

Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 02 June 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue

Danielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The paradox of being poor, yet well fed and warm. Material welfare levels in the 17th and 18th century Southern Low Countries

Maïka de Keyzer (KU Leuven).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Family conflict, legal strategies, and women’s litigation in early modern Scotland

Rebecca Mason (Glasgow University).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Real wages and wages in reality: Lessons from a Swedish royal stud farm

Jonas Lindström (Uppsala universitet).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Barbary Newton: An Absentee Slave-Owner in Late Seventeenth-Century England

Misha Ewen (Historic Royal Palaces).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition

David Fox.

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

Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain

Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making money in the early Middle Ages

Rory Naismith, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tropical development

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Xuesheng You, University of Swansea.

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

Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform

Ian Cawood, University of Stirling.

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

Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror

Benedetta Rossi, University College London.

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

Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism – a concept too big to fail?

Craig Muldrew, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century

David Todd (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810

Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850

Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting

David Edgerton (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how

Joe Day (Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003

Harold James (Princeton).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Writing the history of education as social and economic history

Peter Mandler (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor

Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400

Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s

Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Prof. Peter Scott, Reading.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

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

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge).

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Prof. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Prof. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics

Simon Szreter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons

Richard Bell, Oxford University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village

Miriam Müller (University of Birmingham).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London

Charlotte Berry (Goldsmiths’ Company).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The medieval clothier

John Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny

Professor John Styles (University of Hertfordshire).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

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

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570

Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam).

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

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

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Dr Lucy Newton (University of Reading).

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900

Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London).

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

Tawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Lord, state and community elites in the late medieval and early modern village: the evidence of manorial officeholding

Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workers’ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830

Kathryn Gary, University of Lund.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Fortunes of urban fullers in fourteenth-century England

Milan Pajic (University of Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660

Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

‘Women’, ‘Lads’ and ‘Copers’: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765

Matthew Pawelski, University of Lancaster.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Coinage in the later medieval countryside: single-finds and the evidence from Rendlesham, Suffolk

Richard Kelleher (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire

Dr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Architecture and the English economy, 1200-1500: a new history of the parish church over the longue durée

Gabriel Byng (Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

Dr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The exceptional case of the late medieval English economy: comparing price, wage and rent trends to Scotland and the Southern Low Countries

Katie Ball (Oxford).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Whom to trust to moralise the market

Prof. Laurence Fontaine.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Why Malthus wasn’t African. Reviewing explanations and implications of low population densities in pre-1900 Sub-Saharan Africa

Professor Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University & Research.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Using 'big data' to explore household and family structures in England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Professor Kevin Schürer, University of Leicester.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Dr Siân Pooley, University of Oxford.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Ian Kumekawa, Centre for History and Economics.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Professor Jane Whittle, University of Exeter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Dr Lluís To Figueras, Universitat de Girona.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Dr Phil Slavin, University of Kent.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

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

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy

Marta Gravela (University of Turin).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Susan Flavin (Anglia University).

History Faculty Room 9.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Revisiting Vinogradoff’s interpretation of Bracton: why was a servus not a slave?

Judith Spicksley (University of York).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate Change and Globalisation

Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin).

History Faculty Room 9.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access

Margaret Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 9.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire

John Morgan (University of Manchester).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The role of pragmatic literacy in estate management

Harmony Dewez.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism

Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Ageing Population and Elderly Care in Sri Lanka

Professor K.A.P. Siddhisena (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 14:00-16:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Travelling to town: medieval peasants in the urban marketplace

James Davis.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The Suffolk clothier in the age of Henry VII

Nicholas Amor.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice

James Shaw (University of Sheffield).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Industrialisation, inter-sectoral linkage and occupational structure: Britain, Germany and Japan, c.1850-1935

Professor Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi, Japan).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Sebastian Keibek, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inequality and social mobility in medieval England

Professor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Professor Pat Hudson and Dr Keith Tribe.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Professor Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Labouring in early modern London

Dr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Professor Paul Lovejoy, York University, Ontario.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection

Professor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

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

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The changing fortunes of Poole, Lyme and Melcombe: wool, cloth, tax, trade and the fifteenth century Dorset economy

Mark Forrest (Dorset History Centre).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Trust and Inequality in Late Medieval England

Ian Forrest (Oxford).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England

Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Patterns of migration in late-medieval England

Mark Bailey (UEA).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (4)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (3)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (2)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (1)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form

Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The shock to reinvigorate medieval economic history?

Daniel Curtis (Utrecht).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland

Susan Oosthuizen (Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy

Andrea Caracausi (Padova).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene

Gareth Austin (Geneva/Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Human Security, Food and International Order, 1918-1939

Patricia Clavin (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden

Maria Agren (Uppsala).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different?

Note this seminar will start at 5.30pm

Michael Anderson (Edinburgh).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Medieval English Peasants and Culture

Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Was Domar Right? The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

The Bank of England and the Genesis of Modern Management

Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Consumption and trade in East Anglian market towns and their hinterlands in the late middle ages

Jo Sear.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Rational investment behaviour on manorial estates – Grain storage in the Rhineland area and Westphalia (18th & 19th century)

Friederike Scholten (Münster).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Peasant farmers and their workers in medieval England

Jean Birrell and Ros Faith.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

Helen Berry (Newcastle).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Medieval textiles and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a handmaiden’s yarn

Eleanor Standley.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Pauper inventories and the material lives of the English poor, c.1680-1834

Joseph Harley (Leicester).

History Faculty Board Room.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors

Susan Kilby.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790

Judy Stephenson (LSE).

History Faculty Board Room.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Justifying inequality: peasants in medieval ideology

Steve Rigby.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries

Dr Wouter Ryckbosch (University of Antwerp).

History Faculty Board Room.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland

Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

What was an organic economy?

Professor Sir E.A. Wrigley (Cambridge).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world

Professor David Reher (Complutense University, Madrid).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750

Note change of venue: Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall

Professor Paul Warde (East Anglia).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

How much venereal disease was there in England's modern demographic history?

Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

‘To dig and to delve and to drive away hunger’: peasants and the intensification of English agriculture, 1000-1300

Alex Sapoznik.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'Pity the poor keelmen’. Modelling seasonal work and annual income in early industrial Newcastle upon Tyne

Andrew Burn (Durham).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

A war over water: the contestation of river environments in medieval and early modern England

John Langdon.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

‘Know all men whom this may concerne...’. The Protestation returns and early modern social and economic history

John Walter (Essex).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The brewing industry in England revisited

D'Maris Coffman, Cambridge.

Umney Lounge, Robinson College.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The brewing industry in England revisited

D’Maris Coffman (Cambridge).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Maintaining oneself in early modern England

Alex Shepard (Glasgow).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Call the midwife: death in childbirth in historical perspective

Dr Alice Reid (Cambridge).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 17:00-18:30