Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5:15 pm in Room 5 of the History Faculty. All are welcome, either in person or online.
The Core seminar combines multiple seminars: Medieval Economic and Social History; Early Modern Economic and
Social History; Modern Economic and Social History and Policy; African Economic History; Global Economic History;
Quantitative History; Financial History; the Centre for History and Economics; and the Cambridge Group for the
History of Population and Social Structure. Their specialist seminar programmes do not run in Michaelmas term, but
each meets separately again in the Lent and (sometimes) Easter terms.
Seminar convenors: Amy Erickson (ale25@cam.ac.uk), Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk), Emily Chung (evc28@cam.ac.uk), Guillaume Proffit (gpap3@cam.ac.uk)
Economic and Social History at Cambridge: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk
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👤 Emiliano Travieso (University of Madrid)
📅 Thursday 04 December 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Nicolas Shroeder (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester)
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Tim Guinnane (Yale University)
📅 Thursday 06 November 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Jonathan Levy (Sciences Po)
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster)
📅 Thursday 16 October 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Eric Schneider (London School of Economics)
📅 Thursday 09 October 2025, 17:15-18:45
📍 Lightfoot Room - St John's College
👤 Emanuele Felice (IULM)
📅 Thursday 05 December 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Elizabeth Gemmill (Oxford)
📅 Thursday 21 November 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Alfonso Herranz Loncan (University of Barcelona)
📅 Thursday 14 November 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 07 November 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Brian Varian (Newcastle)
📅 Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 24 October 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford)
📅 Thursday 17 October 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Chris Briggs (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 10 October 2024, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Martin Daunton (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Bruno Blonde (Antwerp)
📅 Thursday 23 November 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa)
📅 Thursday 16 November 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Paul Warde, Cambridge
📅 Thursday 09 November 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne)
📅 Thursday 02 November 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Jordan Claridge, LSE
📅 Thursday 26 October 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Leigh Gardner, LSE.
📅 Thursday 19 October 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Maria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne)
📅 Thursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 6, Faculty of History
👤 Jeremy Adelman, University of Cambridge
📅 Thursday 05 October 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 5, Faculty of History
⚠️ All welcome
👤 Chris Briggs, Cambridge
📅 Monday 09 January 2023, 17:15-18:45
📍 Room 5, Faculty of History
👤 James Davis (Queens University Belfast)
📅 Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 David Green (Kings College London)
📅 Thursday 24 November 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 Samantha Williams (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 A.G. Hopkins (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 10 November 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 Sabine Schneider (London School of Economics)
📅 Thursday 03 November 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 Jane Humphries (London School of Economics)
📅 Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 Catia Antunes (Leiden)
📅 Thursday 20 October 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 William H. Janeway (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 Jane Whittle (Exeter)
📅 Thursday 06 October 2022, 17:15-18:30
📍 History Faculty, Room 6
👤 David Fox
📅 Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge
📅 Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Rory Naismith, Cambridge
📅 Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics
📅 Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Xuesheng You, University of Swansea
📅 Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Ian Cawood, University of Stirling
📅 Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Benedetta Rossi, University College London
📅 Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Craig Muldrew, Cambridge
📅 Thursday 14 October 2021, 17:15-18:45
📍 History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
👤 David Todd (King’s College, London)
📅 Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden)
📅 Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 David Edgerton (King’s College, London)
📅 Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Joe Day (Bristol)
📅 Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Harold James (Princeton)
📅 Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Peter Mandler (Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School)
📅 Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
📅 Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30
📍 Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk)
👤 Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge
📅 Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Prof. Peter Scott, Reading
📅 Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London
📅 Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Prof. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia)
📅 Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht
📅 Thursday 07 November 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge)
📅 Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Prof. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology
📅 Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Prof. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin
📅 Thursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Simon Szreter
📅 Thursday 10 October 2019, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor John Styles (University of Hertfordshire)
📅 Thursday 29 November 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure)
📅 Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam)
📅 Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics)
📅 Thursday 25 October 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University)
📅 Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Lucy Newton (University of Reading)
📅 Thursday 11 October 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London)
📅 Thursday 04 October 2018, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University & Research
📅 Thursday 30 November 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Kevin Schürer, University of Leicester
📅 Thursday 23 November 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Siân Pooley, University of Oxford
📅 Thursday 16 November 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Ian Kumekawa, Centre for History and Economics
📅 Thursday 09 November 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Jane Whittle, University of Exeter
📅 Thursday 02 November 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Lluís To Figueras, Universitat de Girona
📅 Thursday 26 October 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Phil Slavin, University of Kent
📅 Thursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Dr Anthony Hotson, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College
📅 Thursday 05 October 2017, 17:00-18:30
📍 Old Library, Darwin College
👤 Professor Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi, Japan)
📅 Thursday 01 December 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Sebastian Keibek, University of Cambridge
📅 Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Professor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester
📅 Thursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Professor Pat Hudson and Dr Keith Tribe
📅 Thursday 10 November 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Professor Bernard Harris, University of Strathclyde
📅 Thursday 03 November 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Dr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford
📅 Thursday 27 October 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Professor Paul Lovejoy, York University, Ontario
📅 Thursday 20 October 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Professor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast
📅 Thursday 13 October 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
👤 Professor Gareth Stedman Jones, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, London
📅 Thursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-18:30
📍 Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
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Emiliano Travieso (University of Madrid).
Thursday 04 December 2025, 17:15-18:45