History and Economics Seminar

Maroon ecologies and the São Tomé plantation world: histories of black insurgency

Marta Macedo (Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon).

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The business of grain milling in England, c.1540-1800

Mike Braddick, Oxford.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective

Dr Chetun Patel (King’s College London).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 02 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Researching everyday mobility practices and experiences in the past.

Colin Pooley, University of Lancaster.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:15-17:45

History and Economics Seminar

A Forest of Numbers: Comparing Statistics on Europe's Wood Economy (1860s–1910s)

Giacomo Bonan (University of Turin) .

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

Joint Center for History and Economics Online Seminar

By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Via Zoom

Mélanie Lamotte (Duke) .

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95307260045.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Mapping the French gabelles: Fiscal fragmentation, tax evasion, and social conflict

Joseph Enguehard (École normale supérieure de Lyon).

William Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Zoom.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective

Pinar Ceylan, Cambridge and Christopher Markiewicz, Ghent.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Mortgages, maturity mismatching and the transformation of British banking: 1971-92

Dr William Turkington (HM Treasury).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 16 March 2026, 17:00-18:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Public and private water provision and health outcomes in industrializing Britain

Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:15-17:45

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Quantifying the unquantifiable? Assessing the importance of almsgiving in early modern France and Spain

Julie Marfany, Durham.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illegal trade in the North Atlantic

Anna Knutsson, Cambridge.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 14 May 2026, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

TBC

Harry Smith, Emily Vine, and Jane Whittle, Exeter.

Erasmus room, Queens' College.

Thursday 21 May 2026, 17:00-19:00