Early Modern Economic and Social History

Seminar or event series

Our seminar is interested in social and economic aspects of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, in any part of the globe. We meet in the Faculty building on alternate Thursdays in Lent Term and in Easter Term. The convenors welcome suggestions for speakers.

This seminar does not take place in Michaelmas Term. It is one of the contributors to the Core seminar in economic and social history

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards, to which all are welcome. 

Convenors

Amy Erickson

Charmian Mansell

Craig Muldrew

Eamonn O’Keeffe

The support of the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History) is gratefully acknowledged.

Events

Apr
25

I can work all manner of Works': the meanings of labour in the works of Hannah Wolley (c.1622-74?)

Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich.
May
2

The profits of the Gazette: the late seventeenth-century news economy

Natashia Glaisyer, University of York.
May
9

Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early English Caribbean

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Cambridge.
May
16

Science, finance and empire: assessing the role of networked capital in Britain’s economic development,1660-1720

Edmond Smith, University of Manchester.
May
23

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

Phil Withington, University of Sheffield.

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Image: detail from Ox driver on the Isle of Wight by Lambert Doomer (1624-1700), British Museum collection