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Professor John Hatcher

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Professor John Hatcher

Professor of Economic and Social History

Corpus Christi College
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RP
Office Phone: 01223 3 38015/364189
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Departments and Institutes

Corpus Christi College:

Research Supervision

In the last few years John Hatcher has supervised successful Ph.D and M.Phil students working on: farm management and agricultural technology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Cambridge and its economic region, 1450-1560; the culture and practice of commerce in the late middle ages; court rolls and village life in fourteenth-century Cambridgeshire; the economy of late medieval nunneries, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in Cambridgeshire.

Teaching

The main areas of teaching are Part I papers on the economic and social history of medieval and early modern Britain, and an M.Phil course on concepts and methods in economic history.

Key Publications

  • A History of the British Coal Industry before 1700 (Oxford University Press, 1993)
  • 'England in the aftermath of the Black Death',Past & Present, 1994
  • Medieval England: towns, crafts and commerce (Longman, 1995), with Edward Miller
  • Progress and Problems in Medieval England;(Cambridge University Press, 1996), ed. with Richard Britnell.
  • 'Labour, leisure and economic thought before the 19th entury', Past & Present, 1998.
  • Modelling the Middle Ages: England's economic development in theory and practice(Oxford University Press, 2001), with Mark Bailey.
  • 'Understanding the population history of England, 1450-1750', Past & Present, 2003.
  • The Black Death: an intimate history (Weidenfeld and Nicolson (UK) and Da Capo Press (USA), 2008.
  • 'Unreal Wages: Long-run living standards and the 'Golden Age' of the fifteenth century', in Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages, ed. B Dodds and C Liddy (Boydell Press, 2011).
  • 'Fiction as History: the Black Death and Beyond', History, 97, January 2012
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