Seminars
The group runs a range of seminars.
- See also the main Department of Geography seminar list
- Main seminar series
- Graduate Workshops
- Core Seminar in Economic & Social History
- Quantitative History
- Others of interest
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series
Research seminar series run by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
The support of the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History) is gratefully acknowledged.
The seminar meets on Wednesdays at 13.15 in Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.
Convenors: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk), Romola Davenport (rjd23@cam.ac.uk) and Alice Reid (alice.reid@geog.cam.ac.uk).
View the archive of previous seminars.
- # Wednesday 8th May 2019, 1.15pm - Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels)
- The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland
- Venue: Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History
Abstract not available
- # Wednesday 22nd May 2019, 1.15pm - Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge)
- A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911
- Venue: Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History
Abstract not available
- # Wednesday 12th June 2019, 1.15pm - David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL)
- Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office
- Venue: Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History
Abstract not available
Graduate Workshops in Economic and Social History
Mondays at 12:30 pm in Room 5, Faculty of History
All welcome.
Convenors: Ying Dai (Murray Edwards College,yd282) and Emelyn Rude (King’s College, er496)
There are no forthcoming seminars at present. Please check back here later.
You may wish to view the archive of previous seminars.
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History
Seminars begin at 5pm in the Old Library, Darwin College (entrance on Silver St). Each seminar is followed by drinks and (usually) dinner with the speaker. All are welcome.
This seminar is a combination of nine seminar programmes:
Medieval economic and social history; Early modern economic and social history; Modern economic and social history; Quantitative history; Global Economic History; The Centre for Financial History; The Centre for History and Economics; The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; The Centre for Quantitative Economic History.
Their specialist seminar programmes do not run in Michaelmas term, but each meets separately again in Lent and (sometimes) Easter.
The core seminar is grateful for the support of Darwin College and for the generosity of the Trevelyan Fund.
Seminar co-ordinators: Duncan Needham (djn33@cam.ac.uk), Amy Erickson (ale25@cam.ac.uk), and Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk)
Economic and Social History at Cambridge: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk
There are no forthcoming seminars at present. Please check back here later.
You may wish to view the archive of previous seminars.
Quantitative History Seminar
Supported by the Centre for History and Economics and the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History).
The seminar meets on Wednesdays at 13.15 in Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.
Convenor: Leigh Shaw-Taylor (lmws2@cam.ac.uk)
View the archive of previous seminars.
- # Wednesday 15th May 2019, 1.15pm - Andrea Caracausi and Giulio Ongaro
- Title to be confirmed
- Venue: Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History
Abstract not available
Additional seminars of interest to Campop members
Additional seminars of interest to Campop members.
There are no forthcoming seminars at present. Please check back here later.
You may wish to view the archive of previous seminars.