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Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World

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Venue: Hybrid | Online via Zoom & Wolfson NB02, IHR
Time: Tuesdays, 17.30-19.00
Convenors: Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), Judy Stephenson (UCL), Coskun Tuncer (UCL) , Patrick Wallis (LSE), Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh) and Spike Sweeting (V&A Museum).

Term 1 - Autumn 2024

Britain’s Intoxicant Economy, 1550-1770

Phil Withington (University of Sheffield)

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

Inaugral Lecture: "Swallow flying south": capital, democracy, and the making of the Global South

Coşkun Tunçer (UCL)

UCL, Sir Ambrose Fleming LT (G06), Roberts Building

Solving the Principal-Agent Problem Through Apprenticeship: Evidence from Sixteenth-Century Germany

Esther Sahle (Freie Universität Berlin), Ulla Kypta (Universität Hamburg)

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

Trans-Imperial Trade and Networked Capital in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800

Edmond Smith (University of Manchester)

Online- via Zoom

Bigamy in an Era of Clandestine Marriages

Rebecca Probert (University of Exeter)

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

Term 2- Winter 2025

Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague

Max Marczinek (Oxford University)

Online- via Zoom

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800

Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)

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

“Women in Late Medieval Private Credit: Mechanisms Driving Social and Economic Change in Central Europe

Anna Molnar (KCL/IHR)

Online- via Zoom

GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914

Sevket Pamuk ()

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

Land inequality in Ottoman Crete at the turn of the eighteenth century

Pinar Ceylan (Ghent University ), Hulya Canbakal (Sabanci University)

Online- via Zoom

Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics

Tom Raster (LSE)

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

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