Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Income Inequality around the Year Zero: Quantitative Insights from Chinese Literary Sources

User Michele Bolla (Cambridge).

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Who were the Hand-Spinners and Handloom Weavers When Industrialisation Struck? Findings from Silesia and the Swiss Canton of Glarus, First Half of the 19th Century.

User Sandra Ujpetery.

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

User Lovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

Monday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development

User Magnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies).

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor. Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller (1890-1914)

User Xavier Jou (University of Barcelona).

Monday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Wine Production and Exchange in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries: A Micro-Economic Analysis’

User Thomas Laver (Cambridge).

Monday 13 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Factory families: textile work and women’s life courses in late nineteenth-century Derbyshire

User Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

Monday 30 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Railroad Expansion, Local Shocks and Individual Opportunities: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

User Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:30-14:00

The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion

User Heqi Cai (LSE).

Monday 16 October 2023, 13:00-13:30

Ottoman Women in Cartoons (1870-1911)

User Elif Yumru (Cambridge).

Monday 13 March 2023, 12:30-13:30

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

User Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

Monday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860

User Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford).

Monday 16 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London

User Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol).

Monday 02 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75

User Cameron Coventry (Federation University).

Monday 19 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations

User Mustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations

User Eliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Origins of ‘Penitents’: The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Inmates in an English Anglican Magdalen Home, 1848-1914

User Moritz Kaiser, University of Aberdeen.

Monday 25 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618

User Felix Schaff, London School of Economics.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Consumption Change in the Early and Mid-Qing: A Case Study of the Lower Yangze Delta

User Yitong Qiu, London School of Economics.

Monday 11 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland

User Christopher Whittel, University of Cambridge.

Monday 04 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

The spatial distribution of Italy's population and the emergence of Zipf's Law, 1861-1991

User Andrea Ramazzotti, London School of Economics.

Monday 28 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

The occupational structure of Chongqing in the Upper Yangzi Valley, China, 19th and 20th centuries

User Ying Dai (University of Cambridge).

Monday 21 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

The diffusion of mechanised technologies in the West Riding of Yorkshire textile industry c.1780‐1911 and its impact on employment and wages

User Alex Tertzakian (University of Cambridge).

Monday 26 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Years of Turbulence, Years of Hope: Central African Copperbelt and the Industrial Development in Congo-Léopoldville and Zambia, from the Political Independence to the Economic Nationalization

User Mostafa Abdelaal (University of Cambridge).

Monday 19 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century

User Michalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

Monday 12 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

European integration and immigration policy, French and British experiences, 1976-1992

User Yasmin Shearmur (University of Cambridge).

Monday 05 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in China and Singapore, 1919-1937

User Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge).

Monday 29 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Industrial development paths from an evolutionary perspective: the Chinese case, 1998-2013

User Yiwen Qiu (University of Cambridge).

House Room 6, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

The Spinelli Family: A mid-sized Florentine firm’s response to the opening of the Americas and Cape Route trade, 1450-1520

User Eleanor Russell (University of Cambridge).

Monday 15 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Patterns of female employment in the Pays de Caux and the Perche, 1792-1901

User Auriane Terki-Mignot (University of Cambridge).

Monday 08 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Building a Demographic Profile of Foreign Seamen in the British Navy, 1793-1815

User Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge).

Monday 27 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Imperial Germany, Pax Britannica, and the Political Economy of the Gold Standard, 1871-1914

User Sabine Schneider (University of Cambridge).

Monday 20 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Between Economic Pragmatism and the 'Civilising Mission': Making a Case for the Domestic Electrification of Southern Nigeria, 1930 to 1960

User Damilola A. Adebayo (University of Cambridge).

Monday 13 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Crime, Punishment, and Body Snatching: Contested Memories of the 1797 Naval Mutinies

User Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

Monday 06 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

The Central Electricity Board - Accidental Conservationists?

User Kayt Button (University of Cambridge).

Monday 30 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

The patriarchal republic: local officeholding in early modern England

User Jonah Miller (King's College London).

Monday 23 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations Part II

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 06 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations Part I

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Monday 27 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain

User Francisco Beltrán Tapia (Cambridge).

Monday 13 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

The Treaty of Westminster: a turning point for the Anglo Iberian trade in the late 15th century?

User Ana Avino-de-Pablo (Ghent).

Monday 30 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden

User Kathryn Gary (Lund University).

Monday 28 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913

User Walter Jansson (University of Cambridge).

Monday 21 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Family structure and the admission of children to the workhouse in post-famine Ireland

User Simon Gallagher (University of Cambridge).

Monday 14 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Welfare and industrial conflict in the Italian automobile industry, 1968-1975

User Niccolò Serri (University of Cambridge).

Monday 07 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Eating and drinking as a medieval peasant. Innovations in table manners in late medieval rural Valencia

User Luis Almenar (University of Valencia).

Monday 31 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899

User Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Monday 24 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Does sterilised central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rate? The case of the British Exchange Equalisation Account, 1952-1972

User Alain Naef (University of Cambridge).

Monday 17 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Patterns of manorial office holding at late medieval and early modern Little Downham, 1300-1600

User Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Monday 10 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

User Leslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge).

Monday 29 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

User Daniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

Monday 22 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

The male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1700-1850

User Sebastian Keibek (University of Cambridge).

Monday 25 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

Beveridge calling: The social insurance and allied services and the Mediterranean welfare model, 1942-1950s

User Paco Ruzzante (University of Cambridge).

Monday 18 January 2016, 12:30-13:30

What was linen? Flax and hemp at home and work in 18th-century England

User Alice Dolan (Institute of Historical Research).

Monday 30 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

The local and transnational organisation of the nascent Newfoundland dry cod trade, 1550-1650

User Josh Ivinson (Cambridge).

Monday 23 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Land market and the long 12th century transformation in Foligno county

User Nikita Dmtriev (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

Monday 16 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

A comparative analysis of payday lending in America and Britain, 1900-1930s

User Craig McMahon (Cambridge).

Monday 09 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900

User Partha Shil (Cambridge).

Monday 02 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England

User Toby Salisbury (Cambridge).

Monday 26 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Adapting to workplace technological change over the long run: Evidence from US longitudinal data

User Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Monday 19 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Land and credit in the asset allocations of the Jews in late 14th-century Zaragoza

User Mike Schraer (Cambridge).

Monday 12 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

MPhil Presentations

User Alexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

Monday 09 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

MPhil Presentations

User Ellen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge).

Monday 02 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process

User Marta Musso (Cambridge).

Monday 26 January 2015, 12:30-14:00

The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England

User Hillary Taylor (Yale).

Monday 01 December 2014, 12:30-14:00

The Fiscal-Military State and the Land Tax - Observations from Kent and London

User Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Monday 24 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Ideal vs Reality? The Ideal of the Breadwinner-Homemaker Household in Industrializing Regions in the Netherlands, ca. 1890

User Corinne Boter (Wageningen).

Monday 17 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381

User Mingjie Xu (Cambridge).

Monday 03 November 2014, 12:30-14:00

Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent

User Imogen Wedd (Cambridge).

Monday 27 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

The impact of mechanization upon female and male employment in the English textile industry, circa 1780-1851

Note change of speaker

User Keith Sugden (Cambridge).

Monday 20 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

User Carolyn Dougherty (York).

Monday 13 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

What can autobiographies tell us about women's time-use in 19th century England?

User Sophie McGeevor (Cambridge).

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

"The Dust Was Long in Settling": Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl

User Vellore Arti (Oxford).

Monday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

The transformation of the costs of children and its impact on reproductive behaviour: a comparative analysis of the second demographic transition in Switzerland

User Caroline Rusterholtz (University of Fribourg).

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

Probate records as a source of occupational information

User Sebastian Keibek (Cambridge).

Monday 27 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Office holding, social status and stability in a small town, 1661-1861

User Lyn Boothman (Cambridge).

Monday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1928-31

User Simon Abernethy (Cambridge).

Monday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

The multiplicitous networks of the East India Company, 1599-1603

User Edmond Smith (Cambridge).

Monday 18 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Measuring Immigrant Crime in London: The Irish 1801-1820

User Adam Crymble (Cambridge).

Monday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

17th & 18th century land taxes in England; 'hardly changed since the middle ages' or cutting edge technology. A Kent case study

User Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Monday 04 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Female employment in the nineteenth century censuses: Methods, pitfalls, and prostitutes

User Ellen Potter (Cambridge).

Monday 28 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

'Kin-servant' in 1881 British Census Enumerators' Books: Actual Work or Random Enumeration

User Xuesheng You (Cambridge).

Monday 21 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914

User Anne Hanley (Cambridge).