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

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

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Bruno Blonde (Antwerp).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

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

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Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Necessity of Bubbles

William H. Janeway (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics

Simon Szreter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Labouring in early modern London

Dr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

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

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

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

'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