Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Sex and the City Centre: Prostitution, Urban Planning, and Sociological Research in 1960s Lebanon

Jan Altaner (Cambridge).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Faith and Finance in the Early Modern World: The capital market of Manila and the financing of the Pacific Trade, 1668-1820

Juan Rivas Moreno, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College).

Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-14:45

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

How to Vaccinate the Masses? Safety, compulsion, and the success of vaccination policy in nineteenth-century Britain

Jonathan Neil Chapman (Bologna).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Michele Bolla (Cambridge).

Room 9, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Friends and Countrymen: The London private banker and eighteenth-century society

Perry Gauci, Oxford.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

Quantifying job loss and job creation, 1851-1911

Hillary Vipond (LSE).

Seminar Room 2, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand Spinning

Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University).

Seminar Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:15-14:45

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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.

Sandra Ujpetery.

Room 9, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'Let not the flesh seduce thy soul, but remember these things well and learn to spell': London girls’ education in the first half of the eighteenth century

Amy Erickson, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Demographic Losses in Poland during World War II 1939–1945. Verification of Mass Sources and the Method of Estimation during Border Changes

Konrad Wnęk (Jagiellonian University).

Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 13:15-14:45

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

Morbidity among working-class men and women in early-twentieth century Sweden

Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-14:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

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

Room 9, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

A Run on the Bank of the Person: A crisis in London's informal credit market, 1761

Alexander Wakelam, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 17:00-19:00

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

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

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Xavier Jou (University of Barcelona).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Thomas Laver (Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Heqi Cai (LSE).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers

Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

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

Health resilience and weather changes in Germany, 1890-1913

Asst Professor Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

Mariages a la Parisienne: Cohabiting couples in Parise during the inter-war period

Dr Sandra Bree (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Monetary policies and practices: money, popular politics and state formation in early modern Europe

Christopher Pihl (Uppsala).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The occupational structure of the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley: institutions, gender, and experiences

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Death of Richard Howell and the Labour of Care in Early Modern England

Charmian Mansell (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

Mapping the Miasma’. The geographies of a forgotten contagion: Ireland and the 1832 cholera epidemic

Dr Fiona Gallagher (Dublin City University).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Masculinity and cuckoldry in early modern English litigation records

Tim Stretton (Saint Mary’s University, Canada).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

The Norwegian Historical Population Register (1801-1964): Current Status, Impact and Future Prospects

Professor Hilde Sommerseth (The Arctic University of Norway).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Enslaved in France: household colonialism, adolescents of African descent, and everyday practices of race making in the Old Regime

Julie Hardwick (UT Austin).

History Faculty Room 11.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy​

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED: ‘Rendered much cheaper, than our work-people can make’; Women’s employment in textile manufacturing and English political economy, 1688-1722

Hugo Bromley (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

CANCELLED: Territorial pervasiveness of epidemics and health emergencies in the Southern Netherlands/Belgium, 1650-1920

Cancelled due to industrial action

Dr Jord Hanus (University of Antwerp).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Ottoman Women in Cartoons (1870-1911)

Elif Yumru (Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic

Marjoleine Kars (MIT).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Industrialization in the Habsburg Empire: A spatial analysis

Dr Stefan Nikolic (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

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

The Link-Lives project and studying mortality in 19th century Denmark

Louise Ludvigsen and Mads Perner (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Environmental knowledge and economic interaction: pastoralism in north-west Europe, 1350-1850

Eugene Costello (UC Cork & Stockholm University).

Crausaz Wordsworth Building, Robinson College, Adams Road.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

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

Revealing disease ecology from historical records over the last seven centuries

Professor David Earn (McMaster University, Canada).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Wage labour and living standards in early modern England: evidence from Lancashire, 1580-1620

Li Jiang (Exeter).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

Dr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

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

Addressing Health: Morbidity, mortality and occupational health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office

Joint meeting with the Modern Economic and Social History & Policy Seminar

Professor David Green (King's College London).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Paternalism and the politics of “toll corn” in early modern England

Hillary Taylor (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600

All welcome

Chris Briggs, Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 January 2023, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England

James Davis (Queens University Belfast).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

CANCELLED: Post Office Lives: stories of life and death in the British Post Office

David Green (Kings College London).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1921

A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892

Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

Jane Humphries (London School of Economics).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Labour History Cluster

Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950

Arvand Mirsafian, Uppsala University.

History Faculty Board Room.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation

Catia Antunes (Leiden).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

William H. Janeway (Cambridge).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations

Jane Whittle (Exeter).

History Faculty, Room 6.

Thursday 06 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The People, the State, and the Power of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England

Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 02 June 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue

Danielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The paradox of being poor, yet well fed and warm. Material welfare levels in the 17th and 18th century Southern Low Countries

Maïka de Keyzer (KU Leuven).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Family conflict, legal strategies, and women’s litigation in early modern Scotland

Rebecca Mason (Glasgow University).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Real wages and wages in reality: Lessons from a Swedish royal stud farm

Jonas Lindström (Uppsala universitet).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Barbary Newton: An Absentee Slave-Owner in Late Seventeenth-Century England

Misha Ewen (Historic Royal Palaces).

History Faculty Room 5.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 17:00-19:00

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

Adding to the census: using Medical Officer of Health Reports to further our understanding of child mortality inequalities in early twentieth century London

Sarah Rafferty (University of Cambridge).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-14:30

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

Sickness experience in England, 1870-1949

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Board Room Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

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

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION - Changing demography: eastern European female migrants to England at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries

Prof Kevin Schürer (University of Leicester) and Dr Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge).

JCR, Faculty of History and online..

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-14:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition

David Fox.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain

Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making money in the early Middle Ages

Rory Naismith, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tropical development

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Xuesheng You, University of Swansea.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform

Ian Cawood, University of Stirling.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror

Benedetta Rossi, University College London.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Capitalism – a concept too big to fail?

Craig Muldrew, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

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

Poverty, Old Age and Outdoor Relief in Late-Victorian England

Tom Heritage (Southampton).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Disentangling marriage seasonality: Family, politics and economy in the Barcelona area, 18th-19th centuries

Joana Pujadas-Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach

Xuesheng You (Swansea).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey

Zijing Shen (Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution

Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

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

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1915

Eric Schneider (LSE).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

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

Major macro-socioeconomic driving forces of China’s mortality decline in recent decades

Note unusual time

Zhongwei Zhao (School of Demography, Australian National University).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:00-11:00

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

Can the slope of adult mortality by age be changed? An examination of case fatality for pneumonia under different treatment regimes, 1822-2010

Jim Oeppen (Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark).

Zoom webinar - link to follow.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century

David Todd (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810

Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850

Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford).

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting

David Edgerton (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how

Joe Day (Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003

Harold James (Princeton).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Writing the history of education as social and economic history

Peter Mandler (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Cameron Coventry (Federation University).

Delivered online via Zoom.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor

Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400

Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain

Yoko Morita and Chiaki Yamamoto.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s

Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

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

Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973

Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

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

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Quantitative History Seminar

How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870

Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern

Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

CANCELLED: The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 ‘millionaire’ population

Prof. Peter Scott, Reading.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy

Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)

Prof. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence

Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia

Prof. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825

Prof. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics

Simon Szreter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

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

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

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

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons

Richard Bell, Oxford University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Mustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

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

The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses

Bob Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:15-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Eliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815

Sir Roderick Floud.

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Moritz Kaiser, University of Aberdeen.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village

Miriam Müller (University of Birmingham).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

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

'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition

Alice Reid (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Felix Schaff, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Yitong Qiu, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London

Charlotte Berry (Goldsmiths’ Company).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland

Christopher Whittel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Andrea Ramazzotti, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The medieval clothier

John Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Ying Dai (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny

Professor John Styles (University of Hertfordshire).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Alex Tertzakian (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography

Dr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Mostafa Abdelaal (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570

Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Michalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Yasmin Shearmur (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution

Professor Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Yiwen Qiu (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Women in banking: the introduction of the ‘Personal Banker’ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s

Dr Lucy Newton (University of Reading).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Auriane Terki-Mignot (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900

Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared

Richard Smith (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

Tawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Lord, state and community elites in the late medieval and early modern village: the evidence of manorial officeholding

Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône, South of France)

Isabelle Séguy (French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

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

Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines

Jean-Pascal Bassino (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon; Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workers’ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830

Kathryn Gary, University of Lund.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Fortunes of urban fullers in fourteenth-century England

Milan Pajic (University of Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland

Note start time of 5pm

Alan Fernihough (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660

Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

‘Women’, ‘Lads’ and ‘Copers’: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765

Matthew Pawelski, University of Lancaster.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Coinage in the later medieval countryside: single-finds and the evidence from Rendlesham, Suffolk

Richard Kelleher (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire

Dr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Architecture and the English economy, 1200-1500: a new history of the parish church over the longue durée

Gabriel Byng (Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

The Mid-Twentieth Century Babyboom and the Role of Social Interaction. An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Eli Nomes (University of Leuven).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

Dr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The exceptional case of the late medieval English economy: comparing price, wage and rent trends to Scotland and the Southern Low Countries

Katie Ball (Oxford).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20

Frances Richardson (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Whom to trust to moralise the market

Prof. Laurence Fontaine.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Why Malthus wasn’t African. Reviewing explanations and implications of low population densities in pre-1900 Sub-Saharan Africa

Professor Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University & Research.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Using 'big data' to explore household and family structures in England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Professor Kevin Schürer, University of Leicester.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Sabine Schneider (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The children of the state? The social impact of welfare in modern Britain

Dr Siân Pooley, University of Oxford.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Damilola A. Adebayo (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The first serious optimist: A.C. Pigou and the politics of welfare economics

Ian Kumekawa, Centre for History and Economics.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The gender division of labour in Early Modern England: a new approach with new findings

Professor Jane Whittle, University of Exeter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Central Electricity Board - Accidental Conservationists?

Kayt Button (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Cloth consumption and commercialisation in the Western Mediterranean before the Black Death

Dr Lluís To Figueras, Universitat de Girona.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The patriarchal republic: local officeholding in early modern England

Jonah Miller (King's College London).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Great European Famine of 1315-7 revisited: nature, institutions and demography

Dr Phil Slavin, University of Kent.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since 1695

Dr Anthony Hotson, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy

Marta Gravela (University of Turin).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century

Piotr Koryś (University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Institutional Diets in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

Susan Flavin (Anglia University).

History Faculty Room 9.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

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

Commodities, Commerce and Risk: Transforming Access to American Settlement after Napoleon

James Boyd (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Revisiting Vinogradoff’s interpretation of Bracton: why was a servus not a slave?

Judith Spicksley (University of York).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland

Frank Geary and Tom Stark.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate Change and Globalisation

Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin).

History Faculty Room 9.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access

Margaret Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 9.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations Part II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Storm surges and state formation in early modern England: coping with flooding in coastal and lowland Lincolnshire

John Morgan (University of Manchester).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations Part I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The role of pragmatic literacy in estate management

Harmony Dewez.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

Foreign-born migrants in the Integrated Census Microdata, 1851-1911

James Perry (Lancaster).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Accounting for women: account books, petty commerce and re-thinking the transition to capitalism

Julie Hardwick (University of Texas at Austin).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Additional seminars of interest to Campop members

Ageing Population and Elderly Care in Sri Lanka

Professor K.A.P. Siddhisena (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 14:00-16:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Francisco Beltrán Tapia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Travelling to town: medieval peasants in the urban marketplace

James Davis.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

Drainage and water supply in 18th century London

Carry van Lieshout (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

Christof Jeggle (University of Würzburg).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Ana Avino-de-Pablo (Ghent).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The Suffolk clothier in the age of Henry VII

Nicholas Amor.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

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

Placing the dead in 18th century European metropolis: institutions, economy, beliefs

Diego Carnevale (Birkbeck).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice

James Shaw (University of Sheffield).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Industrialisation, inter-sectoral linkage and occupational structure: Britain, Germany and Japan, c.1850-1935

Professor Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi, Japan).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Men's daily and annual wages in early modern Sweden

Kathryn Gary (Lund University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales between 1600 and 1850

Sebastian Keibek, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Finance and regional growth in Britain, 1870-1913

Walter Jansson (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inequality and social mobility in medieval England

Professor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Simon Gallagher (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Piketty opportunity: inequality, global comparisons and a new agenda for economic history

Professor Pat Hudson and Dr Keith Tribe.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Niccolò Serri (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The growth of sanitary intervention in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Professor Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Luis Almenar (University of Valencia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Labouring in early modern London

Dr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Occupational structure of late Imperial China, 1738-1899

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economics of the ‘Second Slavery’ in the Jihad states of West Africa

Professor Paul Lovejoy, York University, Ontario.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Alain Naef (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection

Professor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867

Professor Gareth Stedman Jones, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, London.

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression

Cristiano Ristuccia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The changing fortunes of Poole, Lyme and Melcombe: wool, cloth, tax, trade and the fifteenth century Dorset economy

Mark Forrest (Dorset History Centre).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

White Lies and Alibis: Litigants, Lawyers and Law in Fourteenth-Century York Marriage Disputes

Frederik Pedersen (University of Aberdeen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

Consignatio Hoc Calamitoso Tempore Pestis: Mortality Specifics of the Plague Year 1680 in Bohemia

Pavla Jirkova (CERGE-EI, Prague).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 16 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

Hülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Trust and Inequality in Late Medieval England

Ian Forrest (Oxford).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Feeling the Squeeze: The Effect of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality during the Demographic Transition

Joseph Molitoris (University of Copenhagen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case (Turin, 18th century)

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Anglo-American productivity differentials once again

Mark Thomas (University of Virginia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Give me your wealthy: immigration policy in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England

Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Patterns of migration in late-medieval England

Mark Bailey (UEA).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930

Professor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (4)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (3)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

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

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (2)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Ellen McArthur Lecture: Eve Also Delved: Gendering Economic History (1)

Professor Jane Humphries (Oxford).

LG18, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, 10 West Rd, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

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

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

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

A Match Made in...Middlesbrough? Migration and the Marriage Market in the Late Nineteenth Century

Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The settlement of the poor and the rise of the form

Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The shock to reinvigorate medieval economic history?

Daniel Curtis (Utrecht).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Did family matter? Family systems, patriarchy, and human capital inequalities in historical Europe

Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)

Dr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland

Susan Oosthuizen (Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Sebastian Keibek (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Paco Ruzzante (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy

Andrea Caracausi (Padova).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene

Gareth Austin (Geneva/Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Alice Dolan (Institute of Historical Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Human Security, Food and International Order, 1918-1939

Patricia Clavin (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Josh Ivinson (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden

Maria Agren (Uppsala).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Nikita Dmtriev (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different?

Note this seminar will start at 5.30pm

Michael Anderson (Edinburgh).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Craig McMahon (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Medieval English Peasants and Culture

Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Recruitment of constabulary labour in colonial Bengal 1861-1900

Partha Shil (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Was Domar Right? The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Bohemia

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Poaching and sedition in thirteenth century England

Toby Salisbury (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

The Bank of England and the Genesis of Modern Management

Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Mike Schraer (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

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

Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History

Please note earlier start time of 12.10pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available at the start.

Professor Deng Hui, Peking University .

Seminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

Monday 13 July 2015, 12:10-13:00

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

Female labourers in early nineteenth-century rural Flanders. What's in a name?

Dr Isabelle Devos (Ghent University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Consumption and trade in East Anglian market towns and their hinterlands in the late middle ages

Jo Sear.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

The influence of infant feeding and disease morbidity on children's growth: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1893-1919

Dr Eric Schneider (University of Sussex).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Rational investment behaviour on manorial estates – Grain storage in the Rhineland area and Westphalia (18th & 19th century)

Friederike Scholten (Münster).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Peasant farmers and their workers in medieval England

Jean Birrell and Ros Faith.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Railways and population: spatial interactions

Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.

Eduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

Dr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

Helen Berry (Newcastle).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Alexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

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

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Medieval textiles and the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a handmaiden’s yarn

Eleanor Standley.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression

Dr Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Pauper inventories and the material lives of the English poor, c.1680-1834

Joseph Harley (Leicester).

History Faculty Board Room.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Knowing your place: contrasting peasant landscapes within medieval manors

Susan Kilby.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

Revisiting the Urban Graveyard Debate: An analysis of mortality differences between natives and migrants in North-Western European port cities: Antwerp, Rotterdam and Stockholm, 1850-1930

Dr Paul Puschmann (University of Leuven).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Skill, work and pay in London building trades, 1660 - 1790

Judy Stephenson (LSE).

History Faculty Board Room.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

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

The impact of water supply and sanitation on infant mortality in Tartu (Estonia), 1897-1900

Hannaliis Jaadla (Tallinn University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Justifying inequality: peasants in medieval ideology

Steve Rigby.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Oil Industry in the Algerian Decolonisation Process

Marta Musso (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Singing the praises of tea. Social hierarchy, consumption and Asiatic luxury in the early modern Low Countries

Dr Wouter Ryckbosch (University of Antwerp).

History Faculty Board Room.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain

Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

Living la vita apostolica. Life expectancy and mortality of nuns in late-medieval Holland

Dr Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Affective Economy of Social Relations in Early Modern England

Hillary Taylor (Yale).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

What was an organic economy?

Professor Sir E.A. Wrigley (Cambridge).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world

Professor David Reher (Complutense University, Madrid).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Corinne Boter (Wageningen).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750

Note change of venue: Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall

Professor Paul Warde (East Anglia).

Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Disorder and Rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Reconstructing Yeoman Communities in Early Modern Kent

Imogen Wedd (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Note change of speaker

Keith Sugden (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

Carolyn Dougherty (York).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

How much venereal disease was there in England's modern demographic history?

Professor Simon Szreter (Cambridge).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

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

Long-term changes in sickness among young men in Sweden, 1851-1930: Evidence from military sources

Stefan Öberg (University of Gothenburg).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 09 June 2014, 13:00-14:15

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective

Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

‘To dig and to delve and to drive away hunger’: peasants and the intensification of English agriculture, 1000-1300

Alex Sapoznik.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?

Dr Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

'Pity the poor keelmen’. Modelling seasonal work and annual income in early industrial Newcastle upon Tyne

Andrew Burn (Durham).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

A war over water: the contestation of river environments in medieval and early modern England

John Langdon.

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

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

The implications of the relationship between height and mortality for historical demography. Evidence from contextual and individual approaches in 19th-Century Spain

Dr Antonio Cámara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion? 

Professor M. Erdem Kabadayi (Istanbul Bilgi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 05 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

‘Know all men whom this may concerne...’. The Protestation returns and early modern social and economic history

John Walter (Essex).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

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

The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1770-1834

Dr Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 April 2014, 13:00-14:15

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The brewing industry in England revisited

D'Maris Coffman, Cambridge.

Umney Lounge, Robinson College.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Sophie McGeevor (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The brewing industry in England revisited

D’Maris Coffman (Cambridge).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England

Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

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

What happened to them? Life courses of convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1812-1852

Professor Janet McCalman and Dr Rebecca Kippen (University of Melbourne).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 24 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The punishment of unmarried parents in London, 1695-1834

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Vellore Arti (Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Quantitative History Seminar

The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Dr Mohamed Saleh (University of Toulouse).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Maintaining oneself in early modern England

Alex Shepard (Glasgow).

Linnett Room, Robinson College.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Caroline Rusterholtz (University of Fribourg).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Probate records as a source of occupational information

Sebastian Keibek (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

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

Mortality in English market towns during the 'parish register era', c1550 - c1825

Dr Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 20 January 2014, 13:00-14:15

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Lyn Boothman (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Simon Abernethy (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Edmond Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Measuring Immigrant Crime in London: The Irish 1801-1820

Adam Crymble (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Stephen Pierpoint (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Ellen Potter (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Economic and Social History Seminars

Call the midwife: death in childbirth in historical perspective

Dr Alice Reid (Cambridge).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

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

Xuesheng You (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Venereology at the Polyclinic, 1899-1914

Anne Hanley (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Male Occupational Structure of Norwich, circa 1720-1841: Evidence from Quarter Session and Other Records

Keith Sugden, Cambridge.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 17 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

Real wages and the household: Quantifying the economy of makeshifts of the poor in 18th-century England

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Eric Schneider, Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 10 June 2013, 12:45-14:00

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

The volcano Laki in 1783: a serial killer? A French-English comparison

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Dr Emmanuel Garnier, University of Caen.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 20 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

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

Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Professor Tim Guinnane, Department of Economics, Yale University.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 13 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

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

State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Dr Hiroaki Muppy Matsuura, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 06 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

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

Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Prof. Jeremy Boulton, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.

Seminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

Monday 11 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Mr Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

Monday 04 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Impoverishing development? Institution-building in Colonial Punjab (1849-1947)

Atiyab Sultan.

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

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

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

Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Dr Amornrat Bunnag, Academic Officer, Centre of Doctrine and Strategic Development, Army Training Command, Bangkok..

Seminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

Monday 28 January 2013, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Widows' Work: Some Evidence from the 1881 Census Enumerators' Books

Xuesheng You (Cambridge Group).

Seminar room, Departement of Geography main building, Downing Site.

Monday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Irish Famine: Britain’s Biggest Economic Policy Failure?

Charles Read (Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Linking Business and Philanthropy: The Social Concerns and Philanthropic Behaviours of Bombay's Mercantile Elite, 1845-1870

Kate Boehme (Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 22 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

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

(1) ‘New findings from the family reconstitution data.’ and (2) ‘Nothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.’

Please note that this extended seminar will run from 12 till 3pm. There will be two papers with a break for sandwiches 1.15 to 1.45.

’ Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Nina Boberg-Fazlic & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 25 June 2012, 12:00-15:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Business and politics in late medieval Iberia: mercantile elites in the Kingdom of Aragon (1380-1430)

Sandra de la Torre Gonzalo (University of Zaragoza).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 28 May 2012, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Aspects of Agrarian Change in South Staffordshire: A Case Study of Kingswinford, 1650 to 1750

Irene Haycock (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 21 May 2012, 12:45-14:00

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

Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh

*Please note this seminar will start at the later time of 1 p.m.

Professor Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 14 May 2012, 13:00-14:30

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

Real Wages and the Family: Adjusting Real Wages to Changing Demography in Pre-Modern England

Eric Schneider (Oxford University).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 30 April 2012, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Curious Case of Yorkshire Luddism

Richard Jones (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 05 March 2012, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Schools of Industry and Habits of Industriousness: Making childhood pay in the early Nineteenth Century

David Filtness (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 27 February 2012, 12:45-14:00

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

‘Industrialisation and the Changing Mortality Environment in an English Community, c. 1600-1684’

Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30 p.m.

Dr. Peter Kitson (Cambridge Group).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 13 February 2012, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Studying the Stayers: occupation, kin links and stability

Lyn Boothman (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 06 February 2012, 12:45-14:00

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

The prevalence of venereal diseases in 1913. Who was right? Christabel Pankhurst or the Royal Commission?

Sandwiches and fruit are available from 12:30.

Dr. Simon Szreter.

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

Monday 30 January 2012, 12:45-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Revolt in Rural Cambridgeshire in 1381

Mingjie Xu (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 28 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Women and Children First: A Brief Look at Working Class Women and Children Commuters in London in the 1890s and 1900s

Simon Abernethy (University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 07 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

"Go --West-- North-East Young Man!" Male & Female Migration in 1881

Joe Day (Cambridge Group, University of Cambridge).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

Monday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

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

Illusions of exactness: counting Scotland's population before 1801

Sandwiches available from 12:30

Professor Michael Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

Sir William Hardy Building, HB101.

Monday 16 May 2011, 12:45-13:45

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

Does Gibrat’s Law hold for all times and all places? A study of the growth of British cities prior to 1913

Tim Leunig and Alex Klein (LSE).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 07 March 2011, 12:45-13:45

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

English Living Standards and Mortality since the Middle Ages

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin).

Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 21 February 2011, 12:45-13:45

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

Contemporary perceptions of international migrants in England and the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries

Cancelled. This talk will be re-scheduled for the Easter term.

Jelle van Lottum (Cambridge Group).

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 07 February 2011, 00:00-00:00

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

Gender inequality and change in stature in India during the Twentieth Century

Dr Aravindra Guntupalli (University of Tübingen).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 27 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

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

Cities, markets and the sea: Explaining the ups and downs of height in early nineteenth century England and Wales

Tim Leunig (London School of Economics).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 13 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

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

Widows, wills and economic assets in pre-industrial Britain

Richard Wall (University of Essex).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 30 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

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

Household and plague in early modern Italy

Professor Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow).

Room 121, Sir William Hardy Building.

Monday 16 October 2006, 13:00-14:00