Core seminar in economic and social history
The Core Seminar in Economic & Social History Cambridge brings together the nine specialist research seminar series in the field, which the run their separate programmes in the Lent and Easter terms:
- African Economic History
- Medieval economic and social history;
- Early modern economic and social history;
- Modern economic and social history;
- Quantitative history;
- Global Economic History
- The Centre for Financial History;
- The Centre for History and Economics;
- The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure;
Talks in this series are aimed at those interested in a broad range of periods and places, with a shared focus on economic and social issues.
We run hybrid: on zoom and in the room (Faculty Room 6). Those present in person are welcome to join us afterwards for drinks in the Faculty's Senior Common Room and dinner with the speaker at a local restaurant.
Please sign up to the list at https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-ecosochist for details.
Seminar convenors: Amy Erickson, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Emily Chung and Guillaume Proffit
The core seminar is grateful for the support of the Trevelyan Fund.
Events
Royal justice, society and economy in medieval England: evidence from Derbyshire
Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900
Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of ‘Cartel Capitalism’ in Western Europe, 1918-1957
German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s
Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Sixty years after Fogel’s social savings: measuring the growth impact of railways in the periphery
The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast
Escape from Biology: Highlighting the differences between the Agricultural Revolution and the birth of the modern world
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Image: detail from Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia from Library of Congress collection. The image was part of the W.E.B. Du Bois collection exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.