Dr Duncan Needham

Name:	Dr Duncan Needham
Affiliation:	Charles and Katharine Darwin Research Fellow, Darwin College
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Last login:	Mon Mar 04 19:13:32 +0000 2024

Public lists managed by Dr Duncan Needham

• Financial History Seminar

Talks given by Dr Duncan Needham

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• War, COVID-19 and the national debt.
• War, COVID-19 and the national debt
• Money: the unauthorised biography
• Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?
• The Cold War origins of the Euro
• The 1981 Budget: ‘A Dunkirk, not an Alamein’
• 'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'

Talks organised by Dr Duncan Needham

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• How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.
• How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance man’s view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks.
• The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.
• Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy
• The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage
• Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?
• City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century
• The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population
• Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945
• Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange
• The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK
• Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899
• Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance
• Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50
• Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century
• Why Malthus wasn’t African. Reviewing explanations and implications of low population densities in pre-1900 Sub-Saharan Africa
• Using 'big data' to explore household and family structures in England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain
• The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics
• The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings
• Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death
• The Great European Famine of 1315-7 revisited: nature, institutions and demography
• Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since 1695
• Industrialisation, inter-sectoral linkage and occupational structure: Britain, Germany and Japan, c.1850-1935
• The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850
• Inequality and social mobility in medieval England
• The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history
• The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales
• Title to be confirmed
• Labouring in early modern London
• The economics of the ‘Second Slavery’ in the Jihad states of West Africa
• Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection
• 'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867
• Welcome to Europe - an update on the current refugee crisis, from Greece
• The Merovingians in their manuscripts
• Olivetti, the Marshall Plan, and European growth, 1947-1950
• An 18,000-year old Crime Scene Investigation
• The technocratic empiricism of the Obama administration
• 1956 - year of dramatic change
• Is Ethiopia Africa's break-out developmental state?
• How languages signal highlights using mismatches as methodology
• Title to be confirmed
• An Illusion of Complicity: terrorism and the illegal ivory trade in East Africa
• Charlie Hebdo and the Arab Shia: instrumental rhetoric and freedom of expression
• The Cold War origins of the Euro
• Almighty Physicians and Autonomous Adults: the 1970s women's health movement.
• Zoo-based conservation: connecting people with wildlife to secure a species-rich future
• What is a crossover picturebook? - A case study of the adult reader’s and the child reader’s engagement with the spatiotemporal construction in 'How to Live Forever'
• Conservation of orang-utans and tigers in Malaysia – interventions and progress of work from the field.
• Understanding the Mexican and Turkish political economy through the systems of technical training in the automotive industry.
• Measured with Ceremonies
• Photographing Cambridge
• The affair of the under-librarian: Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) and the politics of English historical collections
• City development and dynastic reputation after Alexander the Great: Cassander's urban programme in Macedonia c. 316-297 BC
• The origins of sheep and goats domestication in Western China
• British attitudes to the postwar West German 'economic miracle'
• Darwin's children
• Towards a probabilistic model of dialect classification: a case study from Ancient Greek.
• Green beef and purple ham - chemical colours in Victorian food
• Metropole of the mind: phrenology and the making of a global science, 1815-1923
• Performing Confession in Indie Music: William Fitzsimmons and 'The Sparrow and the Crow'
• The ka-girl with a baby knife: understanding youth-urban languages in Kampala-Uganda
• Defining performance: the categories of creativity in music and law
• What goes up must come down: the decline of the renaissance codpiece
• The debates on GM crops in the framework of sustainable development.
• Another take on frac(king): the triumph of the frock coat and the lounge suit
• Going beyond ‘market versus state’: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act
• The archaeology of North West Cambridge (including the Darwin family's)
• Mapping Aleppo: interpreting cultural geographies before the Syrian conflict
• Rescuing homeless tsunami victims by law
• The Book as Instrument, 1570–1720
• The politics of belonging in Europe
• Eating to win: How sportsmen used health foods, and vice versa, from 1890 to the Great War.
• The social impacts of using drones for wildlife conservation
• The Sage Under the Bo: Darwinism and Buddhism in Samuel Beckett's How It Is.
• Literary Criticism and the New Left (1956-62)
• Signs, Shops and Imperial Pomp: A Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt in the Early Nineteenth Century.
• A case for attribution: the Emma Darwin portrait
• Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59
• This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010
• Finance and the real economy.
• Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the East India Company
• The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis
• Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis
• Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914