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), Julian Hoppit (UCL), Anne Murphy(University of Hertfordshire), David Ormrod (University of Kent), Patrick Wallis (LSE), and Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Athlone Room (102), Senate House, first floor; except for 27 January (joint with Low Countries History) in Torrington (104)
Time: Friday, 5.15pm
| 20 January | Julian Hoppit (UCL) Refiguring the British fiscal state, 1680-1800 Please note: Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and LSE) will not be able to deliver his paper, The rise and fall of Spain, 1270-1805. |
| 27 January | Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) The tortured emergence of the world's first joint-stock company: the Dutch East India Company (1595-1623)
This is a joint event with Low Countries History and The Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World, 1500-1800 seminar Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
| 3 February | Victoria Bateman (Cambridge) Markets and growth in early modern Europe |
| 17 February | Carry van Lieshout (KCL) The London water market: expansion and public debate, 1750-1820 |
| 2 March | Paul Slack (Oxford) The culture and practice of improvement in seventeenth-century England |
| 16 March | Justin Colson (RHL) London's livery companies in the fifteenth century: changing geography and changing sociability? |
