Labour History Cluster

New Books in Labour History

Massimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Labour History Cluster

Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s

Alex Langstaff, New York University.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

Phil Withington, University of Sheffield.

History Faculty Room 11.

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

'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

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

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 11.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

History Faculty Room 12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

Dr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

History Faculty Room 12.

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

Whom to trust to moralise the market

Prof. Laurence Fontaine.

History Faculty Room 12.

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

Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Susan Flavin (Anglia University).

History Faculty Room 9.

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

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

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

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

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

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg).

History Faculty Room 12.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

‘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

The brewing industry in England revisited

D'Maris Coffman, Cambridge.

Umney Lounge, Robinson College.

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

The brewing industry in England revisited

D’Maris Coffman (Cambridge).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

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

The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

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

Maintaining oneself in early modern England

Alex Shepard (Glasgow).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

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