The Thursday Seminar in ESH: Hilary Term 2012Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social HistoryThursdays from 12.45 pm in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College
Students
and academics of all disciplines are welcomed. The Workshop provides
researchers with an opportunity to present their work in a friendly and
relaxed environment. Papers are normally ‘works in progress’ rather
than polished pieces. A short presentation of approximately 25 minutes
is followed by discussion and questions. A free sandwich lunch is
provided.
Inquiries to: Hilary term: Aled Davies Trinity term: Eric Schneider Michaelmas term: Michelle Sikes Hilary Term 2012
Week 1
(19th Jan) | Mark Uttley (St. Annes College, Oxford)
‘The Navigation Acts and Transatlantic Trade c. 1650-1776’ | Week 2
(26th Jan) | Arthur Downing (All Souls College, Oxford)
‘“The Friendly Planet”: Friendly societies and the British World in the long nineteenth century’ | Week 3
(2nd Feb) | Peter Sims (London School of Economics)
‘Crisis and Speculation: British Merchants and the Uruguayan Civil War,
1839 – 1851.’ | Week 4
(9th Feb) | Peter Sloman (The Queens College, Oxford)
‘Why the Liberals dropped Keynes in 1931’ | Week 5
(16th Feb) | Valeria Prayon (University of Tuebingen)
‘Human Capital Development in Africa since the late nineteenth century –
New Estimates’ | Week 6
(23rd Feb) | Alan de Bromhead (Mansfield College, Oxford)
‘The inter-war Gold Standard and the extension of the franchise’ | Week 7
(1st Mar) | Annie Loeser (Paris School of Economics)
‘Taxing Income in the inter-war period in France and the U.K.’ | Week 8
(8th Mar) | Claire Higgins (Merton College, Oxford)
‘Controlled Generosity? The Development of Australian Refugee Policy,
1975 – 1984.’ |
Michaelmas Term 2011| Week 1 (13 October) |
Wojciech Piotrowicz (University of
Oxford):
Development of Quality Control in British
Manufacturing – The Case of Swords and Bayonets Manufacturing Between the Late
18th and Early 20th Centuries
| | Week 2 (20 October) |
Benjamin Guilbert (Utrecht University, the
Netherlands):
Do Public Subsidies Affect Endowment
Management? The Example of 18th-century Amsterdam
| | Week 3 (27 October) |
Jeremiah Dittmar
(American University, USA):
The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The
Printed Book
| | Week 4 (3 November) |
Igor Zurimendi (University of Oxford):
Serfs and the City: The End of Serfdom and
the Growth of Cities in Eastern Europe
| | Week 5 (10 November) |
Sarah Campbell
(University of Oxford):
Well Suited:
Finding Anthropometric Data for the Elites on Savile Row
| | Week 6 (17 November) |
Frances Richardson (University of Oxford):
The Women Farmers of Snowdonia, 1750-1900
| | Week 7 (24 November) |
Elizabeth Betterbed
(University of Oxford):
A Comparison of
Modern Trends in Civilian and Military Mental Health Programs
| | Week 8 (1 December) |
Mary Cox
(University of Oxford):
An Anthropometric Analysis of Nutritional
Deprivation of Children in World War I Germany
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Trinity Term 2012
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