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.
This term's seminars will run weekly from 5th October until 30th November.
5th October
Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)
Earth hunger: Global integration and the need for strangers
12th October
Maria Bach (Lausanne) jointly authored with François Allison (Lausanne)
A comparison of national accounting in India and USA in the 1860s and 70s
19th October
Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics)
How was power shared in colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British empire
26th October
Jordan Claridge (London School of Economics)
Wages and labour relations in late Medieval England: It’s not (all) about the money
2nd November
Béatrice Robic (The Sorbonne)
New estimates on child labour and education in England and Wales (1870-1914)
9th November
Chris Briggs (Cambridge)
Felons’ possessions and English living standards, 1370-1600
16th November
Alessandro Nuvolari (Pisa)
Railroads and inventive activities: new evidence from Italy, 1855-1914
23rd November
Bruno Blonde (Antwerp)
The sweatshops of the consumer revolution. Economic growth, social inequality
and material culture in Flanders and Brabant (c.18)
30th November
Martin Daunton (Cambridge)
The economic government of the world 1933-2023
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 and Leigh Shaw-Taylor
The core seminar is grateful for the support of the Trevelyan Fund.
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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.