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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

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

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

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.

Rebecca Stamford. Senior Finance Coordinator – Faculties of Economics and History. ... IT Support for History and Economics. Use helpdesk@hist.cam.ac.uk for all enquiries.

I am very interested in supervising graduate students working on any aspect of the economic or social history of England between c.1200 and c.1500. ... Campbell (Brepols, 2015). (edited with P.M. Kitson and S.J. Thompson) Population welfare and economic

Our sources will be varied: memoirs, speeches, political theory, films, and economic discourse. ... What is the conceptual significance of using metaphorical language, psychological observation, or economic theory to embed your claims?

Students will gain an understanding of the contingency of labour forms, the breadth of labour history, the range of different approaches, and the relationship between individual experience and economic patterns.

Key Stage 3 resource packs. These lessons are the product of a 2020–2021 collaboration between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – funded project Secondary Education and Social Change in

Einsatzgruppen. In 2017, he co-authored the study Wahrnehmung und Bewertung der Arbeit der Treuhandanstalt, which was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. ... The Dynamics of Political Revolution and Economic

About Ellen McArthur. Image. Ellen Annette McArthur (1862-1927) left the bulk of her modest estate to Cambridge University to establish a prize for economic history. ... Navigate. Ellen Annette McArthur (1862–1927). Professor Bob Allen: From Foraging

My wider research interests include political, intellectual, and policy history; political and economic thought; liberalism, education policy, welfare and development. ... Society of US Intellectual History Conference, Nashville, Tennessee. “The World

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Dr Deborah Thom. Image. I am a Fellow and director of Studies for the faculties of History and Social and Political sciences at Robinson College, I also lecture in the department of

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Academic Office Holders.. Directors of Research.. Ombudspeople.. Academic Office Holders. Connect with the Faculty of History. Rankings. Consistently ranked in the top three

We will explore how globalisation theory may be applicable to medieval archaeology, and how material and ideological factors both shaped socio-economic change.

Throughout the course we will reflect on three broad themes: how writers – whether novelists, philosophers or public intellectuals – (1) imagined alternative social, political, and economic structures; (2) reimagined the self in

I hold a First-Class Honours in Archaeology from the University of York, however my research to-date has often crossed several academic disciplines, combining economic history, archaeology, legal history and

Different schemes are run by the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust; terms of eligibility vary, but these ‘early career’ fellowships are normally limited to

IT facilities. Image. The History Faculty shares a joint IT team with the Faculty of Economics, which is nearby on the Sidgwick Site.

Alongside the political narrative we will be investigating the broader social, economic, religious and cultural changes which characterised Rome in this period, as well as the increasing centrality of the provinces,

April 2022  Economic History Society Conference | Let the punishment fit the man: manorial amercements for bloodshed in 14th-century Yorkshire. ... Early Career Member of the Royal Historical Society. Member of the Economic History Society and

You study British history in particular depth, taking separate papers in Political and in Economic & Social history.

Research Interests. I am an economic and social historian of early modern England. ... Analysing service from demographic, geographical, economic and social perspectives, this book presents a richer, more textured picture of female service.

Funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Joint Centre for History and Economics (HarvardCambridge), as well as the German Studienstiftung has supported this project. ... Before starting my doctorate, I gained an MSc in Economic and

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Syeda Ali. PhD candidate in Modern British History. Image. Syeda is a mature student who started her PhD after a career in secondary history education, predominantly working in

Cartoon Representations of Late-Ottoman Women (1870-1911)", Cambridge Economic and Social History Workshop, University of Cambridge, 14 March 2023.

I am a former member of the New York-Cambridge Training Collaboration (NYCTC), and have also been a Prize Research Student at the Centre for History and Economics. -

Civil society and the state, the interaction between the economy and the political sphere, economic limits to politics, political theory and modern economics. ... philosophy; scepticism and the rise of the ideas of moral science; social science;

Economic, Social and Cultural History. Image. This project demonstrates how the codification of religious personal laws permitted state  to enter into intimate dialogue with citizens on their domestic lives, which was

I completed my undergraduate degree at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge where I obtained a BA in Business and Economics and where I first became interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social ... and economic history after studying the life

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Intelligence. Seminar or event series. Sir Michael Howard, an official historian of WW2 intelligence, wrote in 1985: ‘So far as official government policy is concerned, the

In Part I of the History Tripos, I supervise Papers 4 (British Political History, 1485-1714), 9 (British Economic and Social History, c.1500-1750) and 16 (European History, 1450-1760).

Engaged Economists. Politics, Profession and Economics in the Left-wing Commitment, 1930s-1960s. ... In economic history, it has revitalized research on real wages and living standards, a well-established, and vibrant field.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Newsletter. Spring 2024. Letter from the Chair. Professor Mary Laven. At Cambridge, we pride ourselves on offering ‘research-led teaching’, but what does that actually mean and

Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in China and Singapore', 1919-1937, Graduate Workshops in Economic and Social History, University of Cambridge, UK (October 2018).

Asking how technologies based on vast amounts of (increasingly personal) data became thinkable, from what often economic imperatives they emerged, and on what infrastructures they rely, hence, seems a vital endeavour

I have particular interests in nineteenth-century French intellectual history, the history of economic thought, and the history of socialism. ... 99-121. ‘Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires', in S

socio-economic pressures?

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Medieval Encounters. Seminar or event series. Medieval encounters is an interdisciplinary medieval seminar series, supported by the Trevelyan Fund and the History Faculty. Seminars

but rather it focuses attention on the many social, cultural and economic factors that led the mass of the population to seek and get more and more education for themselves and