A Perfect Storm: First-Nature Geography and Economic Development

Christian Vedel (University of Southern Denmark).

William Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Teams.

Wednesday 18 June 2025, 16:00-17:30

Quantifying Patenting by Women in the U.S., 1845-1924

Ruveyda Gozen (London School of Economics), co-authored with Mike Andrews and Enrico Berkes.

William Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography and on Teams.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Was the Industrial Revolution censored in Austria before 1848? Institutional Change and Useful Human Capital in the Wake of the 1848 Revolutions

Tomas Cvrcek (University College London).

Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography and on Teams.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

The cultural legacy of historical ethnic violence: The impact on access to finance and innovation

Jianan Lu, University of Portsmouth.

Room 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:15-14:45

Railway closures in France, 1900-1940

Alexis Litvine (University of Cambridge), co-authored with Matteo Mazzamurro and Alban de Gmeline.

Room 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

New Perspectives on the Economic History of War

Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki.

Room 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

From endemicity to demise - Malaria in Denmark ca. 1800-1900

Mathias Ingholt (University of Cambridge).

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 13:15-14:45

Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate

Stephen Broadberry (Oxford University), co-authored with Hanhui Guan (Peking University).

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911

Michael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

Erik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 13:15-14:45

Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College).

Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-14:45

Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand Spinning

Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University).

Seminar Room 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:15-14:45

Demographic Losses in Poland during World War II 1939–1945. Verification of Mass Sources and the Method of Estimation during Border Changes

Konrad Wnęk (Jagiellonian University).

Board Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 13:15-14:45

The occupational structure of the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley: institutions, gender, and experiences

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:15-14:30

Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy​

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:15-14:30

Industrialization in the Habsburg Empire: A spatial analysis

Dr Stefan Nikolic (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:15-14:30

POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

Dr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

Seminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Transport development and urban population change in the age of steam: A market access approach

Xuesheng You (Swansea).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

The occupational structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A reconstruction from a High School Survey

Zijing Shen (Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution

Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain

Yoko Morita and Chiaki Yamamoto.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870

Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815

Sir Roderick Floud.

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

Were nonconformist occupations different? A comparison with fathers' occupations from Anglican baptisms in six Welsh hundreds, 1813-20

Frances Richardson (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

The road from serfdom. The evolution of occupational structure of Polish lands in the long 19th century

Piotr Koryś (University of Warsaw).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland

Frank Geary and Tom Stark.

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Saved by the British Empire: how the US escaped the Great Depression

Cristiano Ristuccia (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 06 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Anglo-American productivity differentials once again

Mark Thomas (University of Virginia).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930

Professor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)

Dr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Railways and population: spatial interactions

Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.

Eduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

Dr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

The labor market consequences of electricity adoption: concrete evidence from the Great Depression

Dr Miguel Morin (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain

Professor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Female employment, occupational structure, and industrialisation in comparative perspective

Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

French occupational structure and labour productivity: what can new estimates tell us about the pace and nature of French industrialisation?

Dr Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Occupational Structures of Ottoman Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Regional Differentiation or Cohesion? 

Professor M. Erdem Kabadayi (Istanbul Bilgi University).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 05 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth century England

Professor Richard Smith (Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 03 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Dr Mohamed Saleh (University of Toulouse).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 10 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

Mr Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

Monday 04 March 2013, 12:45-14:00