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 6th October until 1st December - details to follow.
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 convenor: Amy Erickson
The core seminar is grateful for the support of the Trevelyan Fund.
Events
A New History of Work in Early Modern England: Gender, Tasks and Occupations
The Necessity of Bubbles
Exploiting the Empires of Others: Reflections towards a Model of European Colonial Exploitation
A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860
German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892
Capitalism in a Colonial Context: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1921
The Poor Law, the Workhouse and the Construction of Ablebodiedness
Addressing Health: Morbidity, Mortality and Occupational Health in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office
The Flow of Information within the Markets of Medieval England
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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.
