Trinity
Term 2009 Seminars in ESH
Tuesdays at 5pm, Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College
Convenors: Dr Victoria Bateman, Dr Rui Esteves, Dr Nikola Koepke
Week 1
28 April | Michael Oliver (ESC Rennes School of Business)
“The management of sterling, 1964-67” | Past seminar, lectures and workshops in Economic and Social History at Oxford:
Graduate Workshop in ESH: The Thursday Seminar
Special Lectures
(including Hicks)
E&SH in Hilary
E&SH in Trinity
Seminars around Oxford | Week 2
5 May | David Jacks (Simon Fraser University)
“Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs” | Week 3
12 May | Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex)
"Referral and job performance: Evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army" | Week 4
19 May | Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen)
“The working year of English day labourers, 1300-1830” | | | | | | | | |
Hilary
term 2009 Seminars in ESH
Conference Room, Nuffield College, Tuesdays, 5–7 pm
Convenors: Professor Robert Allen
Week 1
20 January | Maarten
Bosker (OxCarre)
“From Baghdad to London: the dynamics of urban development in
Europe and the Arab world, 800-1800.” | | Week 2
27 January | Vincent
Bignon (Paris X)
“'Cigarette Money and Black Money Prices around the 1948
German Economic Miracle.” | Week 3
3 February | Nikola
Koepke (Oxford)
"Regional
differences and temporal development of the nutritional status in Europe from
the 8th century B.C. until the 18th century A.D." | Week 4
10 February | Pierre-Cyrille
Hautcoeur (École économique de Paris)
“The Paris financial market in the 19th
century: An efficient multi-polar organization?” | Week 5
17 February | Cormac
O’Grada (University College, Dublin)
“Living Standards and Mortality in
Medieval and Early Modern England” | Week 6
24 February | Alan
Olmstead (UC Davis)
“Adjusting to Climate Variation: Historical Perspectives
from North American Agricultural Development” | Week 7
3 March | Paul Warde (East Anglia)
"Energy Consumption and Economic Change in Britain, 1560-1900"
| Week 8
10 March | Knick
Harley (Oxford)
"Globalization, the Frontier and Income Distribution: the
case of the Canadian Wheat Boom" |
Michaelmas Term 2008 Seminars in ESH
The Seminar meets on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wharton Room, All Souls College
Convenors: Professor Jane Humphries and Dr Deborah Oxley
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Week 1
14 October |
Anne Digby (Oxford Brookes University)
'Vision and vested interests': National health service reform in South Africa and Britain from the 1940s
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Week 2
21 October |
Tim Leunig, Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)
How fluid were labour markets in pre-industrial Britain? New evidence from apprenticeship records
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Week 3
28 October |
David Hopkin (University of Oxford)
Ecotypes: Or, a modest proposal to reconnect social and cultural history
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Week 4
4 November |
Sakari Saaritsa (Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki)
The
magnitude, composition and dynamics of informal income smoothing:
Evidence from the early 20th century Finnish household budget data |
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Week 5
11 November |
Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)
Do cultural values override incentives? Sex ratio, caste, and marriage: Evidence from India
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Week 6
18 November |
Hans Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Lending to the borrower from hell: Debt and default in the Age of Philip II
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Week 7
25 November
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Steve Hindle (University of Warwick)
Affray and murder at Nantwich, 19 December 1572
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Week 8
2 December
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Sir Roderick Floud (University of London and Gresham College)
The lessons of anthropometric history
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