IHR seminars > Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500 - 1800
Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500 - 1800
Convenors: Negley Harte (UCL), David Ormrod (University of Kent), Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh), Dr Patrick Wallis (LSE) and Dr Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Germany Room, IHR
Time: Friday, 5.15pm
Venue: Germany Room, IHR
Time: Friday, 5.15pm
| 22 January | Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) Mr Woodcraft and the value of English patents, 1617-1841 |
| 5 February | Danielle van den Heuvel (University of Cambridge) and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (IISH, Amsterdam) Households, work and the consumer revolution in the Dutch Republic. The case of tea and coffee sellers in eighteenth-century Leiden This is a joint session with the Low Countries seminar in the Germany Room |
| 19 February | D'Maris Coffman has unfortunately had to cancel her paper and a substitute will be provided:
Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh) Slave trade profits and the English country house c. 1680-1730 |
| 5 March | Christopher Moses (Princeton University) Money matters and the coinage crisis in 1690s England |
| 19 March | Dr Leos Muller's paper (The Swedish East India Company and Britain, 1731-1813) will now form part of a one day symposium entitled: From the Northern Seas to the Atlantic: Cities, Ecology and Exchange, 1600-1800 For full programme, registration (£12) and further details contact d.j.ormrod@kent.ac.uk. The symposium will finish at 4p.m. and there will be no evening seminar. |
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| 1 May | Julian Hoppit The insecurity of property in Britain, 1688-1835 Date to be confirmed |