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Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch). This is a joint seminar with the Centre of History and Economics.

Her research looks at the economic, social and cultural history of single mothers in New York City between 1827 and 1857.

However, these seemingly innocuous selection schemes had a difficult history. Personality and intelligence tests used by firms started life as diagnostic tools in psychiatric institutions and were designed to identify those

The textile industry of England and Wales, circa 1500-1911. Socio-economic development in British Columbia and Canada, 1881 to the present day. ... 208-26. Roger Sugden and Keith Sugden, 'Economic Development of the BC Interior: A Case Study of

26/09/2019 – 27/09/2019 The Frustrated Peace? The Versailles Treaty and its Political, Social and Economic Impact on Europe “Reclaiming Germany’s Overseas Empire: Colonial Revisionism in the Weimar ... In The Frustrated Peace? The Versailles Treaty

and economics of the Haitian countryside.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. The Eighteenth Century. Seminar or event series. The Eighteenth Century Seminar is a post-graduate seminar, sponsored by the Faculty of History, aiming to explore topics of shared

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Byzantine Worlds. Seminar or event series. The Byzantine Worlds Seminar provides a venue for exploring the material and intellectual entanglements between the medieval worlds of the

The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. ... Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and agricultural

It was funded by the ESRC among others. I hold an MSc in Economic and Social History from Oxford, an MA in History from the EUI and a BSc in Economics

Her focus of research is on the impact of economic shocks on the urban poor in nineteenth-century Britain.

His first book, The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 (Oxford, 2015) explored how British Liberals engaged with economic thought in the era of John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge. ... The impact of ideas and professional expertise on the

I am a historian of American and British foreign policy and intelligence in the first half of the twentieth century, including an interest in its political, economic, and legal dimensions. ... I am especially interested in the role of codebreaking and

Image. I took up my lectureship at Cambridge in 2013 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University as Prize Fellow in Economics, Politics and ... Professional affiliations . Elected Fellow of the Royal

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. American History. Seminar or event series. Cambridge American History Seminar 2023-24. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5:00pm in the William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College,

There is an fascinating story to be told about conflict and corruption in and behind medieval accounts which economic historians have tended to downplay, but has important implications for how the ... Teaching. Supervisor for Outline O2, Part Ia (mostly

I am also interested in how historians, and historical research, can contribute to contemporary debates about economic development and economic inequality, worker rights, consumption, the environment, social change, and democracy.

The subject is easily reduced to changes of style and appears a world apart from the type of “proper” history which analyses political, social and economic transformations.

Empire. Seminar leader, 'Poverty and poor relief', Part I: Paper 9: British Social and Economic History, c.

The maintenance of bastard children in London, 1790–1834', Economic History Review, 69, 3 (2016), pp. ... Briggs, P. Kitson, and S. Thompson (eds.), Population, welfare and economic change (Boydell and Brewer, 2014), pp.129-152.