Economic and Social History Seminars


2026-04-30 17:00: Quantifying the unquantifiable? Assessing the importance of almsgiving in early modern France and Spain (Julie Marfany, Durham)

2026-05-05 17:00: Packing the Border: Quail Crates and the Regulation of Animal Movement on the US-Mexico Border, 1910s-1940s (Sophie FitzMaurice (Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge) )

2026-05-14 17:00: Illegal trade in the North Atlantic (Anna Knutsson, Cambridge)

2026-05-21 17:00: TBC (Harry Smith, Emily Vine, and Jane Whittle, Exeter)

2026-05-26 17:00: The spread of environmental cost-benefit analysis in UK government, c.1966-1995: representing the public in the Anthropocene (Charles Troup (Yale))

2026-05-27 16:15: Precarity and the economy of makeshifts: A novel argument from the census of England, 1851-1911 (Ryah Thomas (Vienna University of Economics and Business))

2026-06-04 17:00: Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51 (Mattin Biglari (University of Bristol) )

2026-06-10 16:15: Whether and when: Split-population cure models of women's work and parity progression in Derbyshire, 1881-1911 (Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge))