Economic and Social History Seminars
This list compiles information on the different seminars in Economic and Social History (ESH) at Cambridge (Medieval ESH , Early Modern ESH , Modern ESH , Quantitative History, Financial History, History and Economics, the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Seminar, and the Labour History series).
Times and venues vary: for lunchtimes there is usually a sandwich lunch provided, and evening seminars are followed by drinks and dinner at a local restaurant.
Contact: 16750 ; Dr AM Price ; Amy Erickson ; Jenny Bishop ; 128503
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Quantifying the unquantifiable? Assessing the importance of almsgiving in early modern France and Spain
Packing the Border: Quail Crates and the Regulation of Animal Movement on the US-Mexico Border, 1910s-1940s
Illegal trade in the North Atlantic
TBC
The spread of environmental cost-benefit analysis in UK government, c.1966-1995: representing the public in the Anthropocene
Precarity and the economy of makeshifts: A novel argument from the census of England, 1851-1911
Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933â51
Whether and when: Split-population cure models of women's work and parity progression in Derbyshire, 1881-1911
Please see above for contact details for this list.
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Julie Marfany, Durham.
Thursday 30 April 2026, 17:00-19:00