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

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

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Eleanor Russell (University of Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

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