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Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World

Hands with rings

Venue: Hybrid | Online via Zoom & Wolfson NB02, IHR
Time: Fridays 17:30
Convenors: Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), Judy Stephenson (UCL), Coskun Tuncer (UCL) , Patrick Wallis (LSE) and Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh)

Term 1- Autumn 2023

When was the 'industrious revolution'? Product innovation, textiles, and the fate of homespun

John Styles (University of Hertfordshire)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Costs of Court Use and Appeal to Justice in the Ottoman Empire

Bogac Ergene (University of Vermont)

Online- via Zoom

Bias, competition and credibility: the case of Galileo Galilei

Anna-Luna Post (Cambridge)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Exchanging material for spiritual wealth: the Misericordia’s businesses in Portugal and its overseas empire (1500-1700)

Lisbeth Rodrigues (Lisbon School of Economics & Management), Isabel do Guimaraes Saa (University of Minho )

Online- via Zoom

Dutch trade and credit in the Barbados Sugar Boom of the 17th Century

Joris van den Tol (Radboud University- Cambridge)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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